The Ultimate Easy to Prepare Vegetarian Recipes Cookbook - With tips on cooking methods, essential tools, and over 20 recipe guides!

Introduction

There are a lot of benefits to becoming a vegetarian no matter what your reasons are for foregoing meat. You’ll be healthier, you can help bolster your heart, you’ll keep your weight down, and you won’t have to eat at the expense of other animals. The health reasons alone are an advantage enough which is why there are millions of people all over the world who have chosen this vegetable-laden diet. But despite how widespread vegetarianism is today, it is still pretty difficult to get vegetarian-friendly selections in most restaurants. Unless you eat at a vegetarian restaurant, finding vegetarian friendly meals can be tough. That’s why we’ve prepared this book filled with simple and delicious recipes so that you can eat good, vegetarian food anytime you want.

One of the best ways to conquer a new diet plan is to expand your boundaries and explore the kitchen. If you have to rely on restaurants and eateries for your eating habits, then you’re fighting a losing battle. But when you learn how to prepare food that meet both your dietary needs and your personal cravings, you can pretty much have your cake and eat it too. Think fettuccine in tomato concassé sauce or bean barbecue burger. Learn the basics of preparing vinaigrettes and enjoy the simplicity of salad greens and walnuts in mango or balsamic vinaigrette. Pretty soon, you’ll find that not only do you look forward to meals, your friends will be asking you for recipes or begging for dinner invitations; even your non-vegetarian friends!

In the following chapters, you’ll not only have simple but gourmet recipes to look forward to, you will also have a guide on the basic utensils and equipment you need for preparing vegetarian-friendly food, a chapter on the supplies you should always have in your chiller and pantry, and a lot of kitchen know-how and tips drawn from the experiences of a real chef. With what you’ll find in this book, you can build on a repertoire of dishes and kitchen skills that will have you cooking gourmet dinners and Sunday brunch for your family and friends in no time.

While there are different levels of becoming a vegetarian, our recipes have been prepared with the lacto-ovo vegetarian diet in mind or for vegetarians that include dairy products and eggs in their diet. This means that our recipes are designed for people who do not consume red meat, white meat, fish, or fowl; however, we still use dairy products and egg products as ingredients. For stricter vegetarian types such as ovo vegetarians, lacto vegetarians, and vegans, you can still follow the same recipes but forego the eggs and dairy and choose the substitutes that we have included with the recipes instead. Regardless of the type of vegetarian, the cooking methods and food preparation techniques stay the same and are just as valuable for anyone who wants to take their diet into their own hands.

This is an excerpt from the book:  The Ultimate Easy to Prepare Vegetarian Recipes Cookbook