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recipecommunityThe Complete Beans and Grains Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide with 450+ Recipes
Paperback – February 6, 2024
by America's Test Kitchen
This cookbook covers a wide range of vegan, vegetarian, and omnivore recipes from around the world. They run the gamut from very simple to fairly complex. Most recipes have a photo of the dish; complicated ones often have step-by-step photos. There are also sidebar recipes for condiments, spice blends, and such. The Introduction includes Welcome to the World of Beans and Grains, About Beans, About Canned Beans, About Lentils, About Other Legumes, About Grains, About Rice, and Useful Equipment. That right there is over 30 pages of education about cooking high-protein, high-fiber dishes based on these seed foods. Back matter is similarly generous with Nutritional Information for our Recipes, Conversions and Equivalents, and an Index that lists both ingredients and recipe titles.
Chapter header pages include a list of recipes with color-coded dots for Fast (45 minutes or less) and Vegan recipes. The chapters are Snacks and Appetizers; Toasts, Patties, Tacos, and More; Soups, Stews, Meal Salads, Bean Dinners, Grain Dinners, Bean Sides, Grain Sides, Under Pressure, and Cook It Slow. We marked a ton of recipes here, more in some chapters than others. Seriously, I used up almost two whole index cards making bookmarks. These include Sweet Potato Hummus, Black Bean Burgers, Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup, Chicken and Rye Dumplings, Sprouted Grain Salad, Jamaican Oxtail, Chicken Fried Rice with Sausage and Dried Shrimp, Cranberry Beans with Warm Spices, Brown Rice Pliaf with Rice and Pistachios, Pressure Cooker Sweet Potato Chili, and Slow Cooker Boston Baked Beans.
If you like grains and legumes at all, you should love this cookbook. It's lovely to look at with lots of interesting options. We really enjoyed going through it together. It's also a great choice if you need to feed lots of people affordably without spending all day in the kitchen. I was mildly disappointed by the lack of a sweet / dessert chapter (no kitchen sink cookies? no rice pudding? no red bean paste?) but it's a minor quibble in a cookbook that offers so much to love. Highly recommended.
Paperback – February 6, 2024
by America's Test Kitchen
This cookbook covers a wide range of vegan, vegetarian, and omnivore recipes from around the world. They run the gamut from very simple to fairly complex. Most recipes have a photo of the dish; complicated ones often have step-by-step photos. There are also sidebar recipes for condiments, spice blends, and such. The Introduction includes Welcome to the World of Beans and Grains, About Beans, About Canned Beans, About Lentils, About Other Legumes, About Grains, About Rice, and Useful Equipment. That right there is over 30 pages of education about cooking high-protein, high-fiber dishes based on these seed foods. Back matter is similarly generous with Nutritional Information for our Recipes, Conversions and Equivalents, and an Index that lists both ingredients and recipe titles.
Chapter header pages include a list of recipes with color-coded dots for Fast (45 minutes or less) and Vegan recipes. The chapters are Snacks and Appetizers; Toasts, Patties, Tacos, and More; Soups, Stews, Meal Salads, Bean Dinners, Grain Dinners, Bean Sides, Grain Sides, Under Pressure, and Cook It Slow. We marked a ton of recipes here, more in some chapters than others. Seriously, I used up almost two whole index cards making bookmarks. These include Sweet Potato Hummus, Black Bean Burgers, Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup, Chicken and Rye Dumplings, Sprouted Grain Salad, Jamaican Oxtail, Chicken Fried Rice with Sausage and Dried Shrimp, Cranberry Beans with Warm Spices, Brown Rice Pliaf with Rice and Pistachios, Pressure Cooker Sweet Potato Chili, and Slow Cooker Boston Baked Beans.
If you like grains and legumes at all, you should love this cookbook. It's lovely to look at with lots of interesting options. We really enjoyed going through it together. It's also a great choice if you need to feed lots of people affordably without spending all day in the kitchen. I was mildly disappointed by the lack of a sweet / dessert chapter (no kitchen sink cookies? no rice pudding? no red bean paste?) but it's a minor quibble in a cookbook that offers so much to love. Highly recommended.
