Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the World

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Madhur Jaffrey

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Clarkson Potter

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In her most comprehensive volume yet, Madhur Jaffrey draws on more than four decades of culinary adventures, travels, and experimentation for a diverse collection that both intrigues and delights the palate. Dishes from five continents touch on virtually all the world's best loved flavors, for a unsurpassed selection of vegetarian fare.

More than 650 recipes exemplify Madhur's unsurpassed ability to create simple, flavorful homecooking that is well within the reach of every cook. Extensive sections on Beans, Vegetables, Grains, and Dairy explore the myriad ways these staples are enjoyed worldwide. Each section opens with a detailed introduction; Madhur describes methods for preparation and storage, as well as different cooking techniques and their cultural origins. Throughout she balances appealing, uncomplicated dishes such as sumptuous omelets and rich polentas with less familiar ingredients such as green mangoes, pigeon peas, and spelt. Madhur demystifies the latter with clear-cut explanations so that incorporating new combinations and interesting flavors into everyday cooking becomes second nature. She also offers substantial sections on Soups, Salads, and Drinks, as well as Sauces and Other Flavorings, to help round out a meatless meal and add exciting new flavors to even the most easily prepared dishes. Finally, a complete glossary of ingredients and techniques clarifies some of the little-known elements of the world's cuisines so that even the uninitiated can bring the flavors of Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and more to their tables.

Throughout this extensive collection, Madhur includes personal anecdotes and historical contexts that bring her recipes to life, whether she's remembering field of leeks she saw in the mountains of northern Greece or describing how corn-based dishes arrived in Indonesia through colonial trade. Committed vegetarians will rejoice at the wide variety of meatless fare she offers, and nonvegetarians will enjoy experimenting with Madhur's global flavorings. This highly readable resource promises to be a valuable addition to any cook's library, helping everyone make healthful ethnic foods a part of everyday cooking.

Amazon.com Review

The author of seven previous cookbooks, including the classic Indian Cooking, Madhur Jaffrey is among today's most influential and authoritative food writers. Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian, a meticulously researched collection of more than 750 meatless dishes from around the globe, presents its author in superlative form, culling the best vegetarian home-style dishes from virtually every culture and cooking tradition. Jaffrey's book, filled with delicious, approachable recipes, has universal appeal, and should be part of every cook's library.

Divided into sections on beans, grains, and vegetables, and including chapters on vegetables, soups, salads, and sauces, among other topics, the book brilliantly juxtaposes recipes grouped by ingredient to reveal, finally, the way that ingredient is approached globally to make food. Thus, for example, Jaffrey's section on rice offers Persian Pilaf with Lima Beans, Palestinian Rice with Lentils and Browned Onions, and Risotto with Fried Porcini Mushrooms, among other pitch-perfect dish choices in this and other chapters. Less familiar ingredients like spelt, millet, and soybeans are removed from the realm of dubious interest and presented in compelling recipes, such as Spicy Soybean Patties with Mint. Throughout, Jaffrey provides definitive notes on ingredients (her full investigation of couscous types is one of many examples) and techniques, as well as a truly comprehensive glossary. Jaffrey also offers a small but charming section on drinks; her Fresh Lime and Ginger Syrup from India, to be mixed with ice and soda water, is a simple but marvelous summertime treat, and one more example of Jaffrey at excitingly full throttle. A ten-page section of color photos rounds out this expert collection. --Arthur Boehm

Customer Reviews

Perhaps my absolute favorite cookbook

I belong to a CSA, so I get a weekly box of vegetables for 20 weeks of the year. Whenever I want to try something new or add zing to a vegetable, one of the first places I turn is Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian. I've found dozens of keepers in this cookbook - dishes I've never really encountered elsewhere, but that intrigue my tastebuds and stretch my horizons. For example, she has a "pumpkin pie" recipe from Greece (p 293) - think spanakopita (spinach pie), not Thanksgiving custard concoctions - and it never ceases to amaze people I make it for. I use 2 to 4 recipes per week from this cookbook during the height of CSA season. I love it so much, I joke that I should start a fan club. :^)

If you belong to a CSA, get this in combo with From Asparagus to Zucchini (which is strong on basic treatments for each veggie) and you'll be golden. As others have pointed out, it is organized largely by primary ingredient, not by cuisine (Indian, Greek, Spanish, etc) or spot on the menu (appetizer, soup, main dish). But if your goal is to find ways to creatively and deliciously use up ingredients you have in the kitchen, you owe it to yourself to try this cookbook.

Best cookbook out there!

This book is great! I am not a vegetarian, but love to eat most of my meals consisting of legumes and veggies. This book really fits the bill! I love how economical most of these recipes are. I took a trip to my local farmers market and bought several pounds of the beans, all of the recommended spices, and veggies all for under 75 dollars. I have a pantry full of items that I can use with these recipes.
Not only is the book practical and economical, but is full of information and provides a great foundation for how to cook, not just how to follow a recipe. It is like an encyclopedia in that you can look up the ingredient and find all you need to know about it and great recipes to follow it. Great find! I don't think there is another book out there of this caliber. YOU MUST GET THIS BOOK!

Great World Cuisine, even if not vegetarian

I found this book by accident many years ago. I was the head chef for a small organic cafe and we had a large (I won't mention the name) retail bookstore next door I turned to when I had the occasional mental block on what to come up with for a daily special. I kept returning to this volume over and over, until I bought it. For those that know me and my professional culinary career, know that I got serious about cooking for others when I was living in Thailand and landed a job at a small guest house and cooking for monks at a nearby forest monastery. I was able to parley this experience and use it to work and travel cheaply throughout Asia and Latin America. Jaffrey's recipes are authentic (with a few vegetarian adaptations) and broadly cover the globe. The only drawback here is that it is a strict vegetarian book, and she does not touch on many of the world's cuisines I savor like seafood, Korean BBQ; North African tagines; or Caribbean essentials like jerk chicken, oxtail, or curry goat. That said, I still recommend this book for its breadth and ability to cover so many cultural world classics in one volume.

My Favorite Cookbook

This is my favorite cookbook ever. It not only taught me how to make delicious food, but it made me into a better cook. Jaffrey's recipies are meticulous and following them exactly will consistently produce amazing results. This is the first time I've made any ethnic food that tastes at as flavorful and delicious as what I would get in a high quality restaurant. I, and my friends, love and depend on Madhur.

Scrumptious!

World vegetarian recipes? Yes, but with a definite preference for West Indian and North African. This is a superbly written source book for Ethnic vegetarian dishes. Items needed for each recipe are clearly cited. Directions are simple and directly stated. Brief information about what gives each Ethnic food its distinctive flavor makes for good reading. The results of even an inexperienced cook are scrumptious.

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