River Cottage Much More Veg: 175 vegan recipes for simple, fresh and flavourful meals
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Want to cook more veg for your family, but have no idea where to start? Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is here to help, with a whole host of veg-centric recipes that are easy, foolproof and delicious. Let’s ‘Eat Them To Defeat Them’!
Hugh’s River Cottage Veg Every Day! became the UK’s best-selling vegetable cookbook, persuading us through sheer temptation to make vegetables the mainstay of our daily cooking. In this much-anticipated follow-up, Hugh delivers more irresistible recipes, and this time, takes things one step further. Fuelled by his passionate belief that plant foods should be the dominant force in our kitchens, Hugh has put cheese, butter, cream, eggs, and refined flour and sugar firmly to one side. Instead, he uses veg, fruit, wholegrains, nuts, seeds, spices and cold-pressed oils to explore the length and breadth of what can be achieved with natural, unprocessed plant foods. River Cottage Much More Veg! makes it clear that unadulterated ingredients are the very best building blocks for delicious and healthy meals.
In typical Hugh style, the recipes are easy, utterly foolproof,delicious, and full of plenty of swap-out suggestions. All but a handful are gluten-free, and at least half the dishes require 20 minutes (or less) hands-on work time. With recipes such as Roast squash and chickpeas with spicy apricot sauce, Blackened cauliflower with pecans and tahini, Spiced beetroot, radicchio and orange traybake, Celeriac and seaweed miso broth, Seared summer cabbage with rosemary, chilli and capers, and Baked celery agrodolce, River Cottage Much More Veg! demonstrates how easy it is to make versatile, plentiful and delicious vegetables the bedrock of your diet.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing, Illustrated edition (21 Sept. 2017) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 416 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1408869004 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1408869000 |
| Dimensions | 19.48 x 3.68 x 25.15 cm |
by MR R J MCKENNA
As with most other Hugh or river cottage books, easy to follow recipes that result in fabulous dishes. If you want simple food that lets the ingredients sing? This is perfect
by McGoogly
I bought this book shortly after my son decided (overnight!!) to become vegan and I was really disappointed with it compared to several other (mainly American) vegan recipe books I bought around the same time. It just seemed to be full of recipes for what I considered to be vegetable side dishes rather than anything really suitable for a main meal. That was my failing, not HFW. I was searching for things to replace the meaty element of a meal so I was drawn to the recipes in other books offering Seitan, tempeh and tofu dishes with some veg on the side. A year or so on and I can see that I was missing the point of veganism. This book is a true celebration of vegetables in all their glory. Every recipe has a full page colour photo which I really like and every recipe also has a suggestion at the bottom for ‘swaps’ to vary it. There are a small number of recipes that include tofu (which my son loves) but it is mainly vegetables, pulses and grains. As the rest of the family are not vegan this book has been especially useful because it has given me ideas for other ways to cook the veg that for us is a side dish although we have eaten a lot of the dishes as they are and enjoyed every one of them so far. The only thing that would have improved the book for me is a section at the end on menu planning with some of the authors thoughts on which dishes work well together in a balanced meal – but that is a minor detail and pr Baby says more about my own lack of imagination anyway.
by Graeme Finlayson
This is a truly excellent book. Yes, it’s vegan/plant-based, but don’t let that put you off. You can have deliciously tasty, healthy food without including meat or fish. I’ve made quite a few of the recipes, but so far my favourite is the turnip and red lentil chilli (I used swede as we had it at home and I upped the spices and the chilli content with lots of M&S chipotle paste – I’m a proper spice-head) served with the nutty quinoa (again, a bit more spice than the recipe) and together they were just sublime. Immense flavours and textures. Possibly top of my favourite recipe list.
If you’re vegan/plant-based and want to add a bit more variety to your cooking, or if you’re an omnivore looking to add more healthy, tasty vegetables to your diet, then this book is a must!
by Sue Smith
The first book I have found that caters to my savory pallet. It is a decent thick heavy book with a lot of recipes, you really do get your money’s worth, alot of the vegan cookbooks that I have bought are American and not to my taste, American recipe’s are to sweet for me. British vegan books that I have found have too much junk food, I don’t like to eat jusk food if I can help it.
Much more veg is wholesome roasted, stewed and baked, mezze tapas and sides. There is a section on soups and raw food too, a couple ( not many) unusual combinations like courgettes with strawberries, but a whole section on spuds and grains! He’s got a recipe for mash potatoes without the dairy, yay! Oh, and it’s all ingredients that you know, or at least can buy in the supermarket for a change without having to send away for it, waiting a month and then forgetting why you wanted it in the first place, only to be shoved to the back of the kitchen cupboard never to be seen again!
The recipes also have alternative swaps at the bottom of the page which is useful.
I am trying to get my family to eat less meat and more veg, I think this book will help with that to.
by Tony&Annie
This is an excellent book, for everyone. Vegans and non-vegans alike. Hugh is not a vegan, but he has a heap of professional experience to know that eating plant based, whole foods, non-processed foods is not only bad for your health, it is also not easy to maintain a healthy weight.
I am a vegetarian but prefer to avoid dairy as much as I can. I have a few very good vegan cookbooks but am dismayed at the number of recipes that use pasta or other foods that include wheat. Hugh doesn’t use any of these, and all his recipes consist of good, clean foods. I particularly like the way he has approached this cookbook. Although there is a whole section of main meals, he also has other sections that are dishes that enable the mezze style of meals. Which I love! A healthy meal should be a varied one, so having a huge selection of options to choose from, and the ability to ‘recycle’ any leftovers into the next days’ meal, make for a very interesting meal.
There are a few 1 Star reviews of his book, and I feel the people that give this rating really must have no idea of what a healthy meal should look like. If you are a person that is fixed in your idea of what a meal should look like on a plate – such as a slab of meat with a bit of side veg, then this book may not be for you. However, if you also love a good selection of healthy dishes, with different textures and tastes, then it most certainly is.
This cookbook is most definitely the BEST one I have ever bought. It is very well laid out and has a photo of each dish too. I also love that Hugh has given options for replacing certain ingredients. Buy it, you will love it!
by Ann R.
This book is superb. I’ve had it for a couple of years now, and cook from it all the time, and always enjoy the results. So I’ve just bought another 2 copies to give as presents. Hugh FW is brilliant at using herbs and spices to make things taste interesting. I never knew vegetables could be so tasty! It’s been especially good since we started getting a veg box. As he says, “if you’re unsure what to do with a turnip, your troubles are over”. Highly recommend.
by lulu1
this is a good book, but definitely felt his first book better. there were too many appetite size dishes and side dishes and not enough substainal main meals.
love his recipes-just too much planning when you are having to group side dishes to make a meal
by D
Good recipes but most aren’t to be relied on as a whole meal, you have to cook combos of them, meaning 45 pans and a messy kitchen. The Green Roasting Tin is the best.