Product Description
by Anna Shepherd (Author)
Love Vegetables is bursting with sumptuous, fresh, and repeatable recipes that will transform the way you perceive vegetables, making them your go-to ingredient for nourishing and adaptable meals.
With a focus on teasing out amazing flavor from roots, shoots, and leaves with a creative touch, these dishes are both indulgent and satisfying, for a new, vibrant repertoire you'll want to cook time and again. By shifting vegetables from colorful sides to dynamic centerpieces, author Anna Shepherd shares the insider knowledge she has gained from her many years cooking professionally and working with growers and farmers. Anna shows you just how easy and rewarding it can be to create dishes that are as generous, richly flavored, and sustaining as those with meat or fish. Organized by vegetable type, focusing first on alliums, strong and tender greens, potatoes and creamy roots, and then moving on to tougher-to-love roots, tomatoes, and peppers, sunny and savory vegetables and liveners (crispy toppings, herby sauces, and punchy salsas). The book includes inspiring recipes such as:- Sweetheart Red Curry
- Pumpkin & Cheesy Chili Baked Rice
- Scorched Cucumbers with DIY Burrata
- Five Spiced Mushroom & Walnut Ragu
- Shaved Celery Root & Hazelnut Caesar
- Eggplant Chips with Chopped Salad & Tender Halloumi
Throughout these pages, Anna shares her specialist food knowledge, showing you how to make the most of fresh produce. With delicious and original combinations and useful tips and insights, this unique book will boost your vegetable confidence and truly make you love vegetables.
Author Biography
Anna Shepherd is a chef, recipe developer and cookery teacher.
She has written books on everything from thrilling salads; the versatility of sea salt; show-stopping pies; vegan mid-week dinners; Christmas feasting, sumptuous afternoon tea and cooking with veg boxes.
Love Vegetables is the first cookbook she's written under her own name, celebrating how she cooks at home. In it, she makes vegetables taste both indulgent and exciting.
Her recipes always taste more than the sum of their parts, but, thanks to being a self-taught cook, and her cookery teaching, are always easy to follow and achievable.
