The Lowfat Jewish Vegetarian Cookbook: Healthy Traditions from Around the World | 
 enlarge | Author: Debra Wasserman
Publisher: Vegetarian Resource Group
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 747370
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0931411122
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636089924
EAN: 9780931411120
Publication Date: July 1995
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Product Description
Over 150 lowfat Jewish vegetarian recipes with an international flavor are profiled, including Rosh Hashanah dinner suggestions and 33 Passover dishes. One can feast on Romanian Apricot Dumplings, Polish Apple Blintzes, Czechoslovakian Noodles with Poppy Seeds, and Ukrainian Kasha Varnishkes. Celebrate with Eggless Challah, Purim Hamentashen, Chanukah Latkes, and more.
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Feel free to add more spices! April 26, 2007
I normally love the cookbook offerings from the Vegetarian Resource Group and anxiously awaited the arrival of this one. However, many of the recipes are somewhat bland--I've remedied that by adding more flavorings as appropriate to the recipe. They are easy to make with clear instructions, but the flavor is somewhat lacking. (One example was the low-fat 'mock chopped liver,' which I made for my family and was roundly booed. Try the VRG regular high-fat version which uses walnuts--much better unless you are looking to cut fat!) But if you are looking for lowfat recipies, these are OK.
Easy to follow June 3, 2003
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
This cookbook will be easy to follow and give more alternatives to eating a sound diet.
A slim but handy book March 22, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Considering the challenging subject matter, I have to appreciate this book even though it does not contain as much material nor is as professionally presented as many cookbooks. There are not as many Passover recipes as I'd hoped; but ANY source of non-dairy vegetarian Passover recipes is helpful to me, as I need to prepare dishes to bring to a meat-centric Passover seder where vegetarians will be in attendance. I have also just purchased the booklet Vegan Passover Recipes by Nancy Berkoff, which is brief but helpful as well.I have not tried every recipe in Lowfat Vegetarian (I can't comment, for example, on the matzoh ball recipe another review complained about). One non-Passover dish that I particularly enjoy is the Romanian Paprikash (made of mushrooms, potatoes, paprika and other seasonings, and elbow macaroni). Many recipes involve legumes (beans, chick peas, etc.) and various grains. I think the recipes for foods that are originally low in fat probably come out better than the adaptations of traditional fat-ful Jewish food.
 Some recipes questionable... October 13, 2001
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Some of the recipes presented here are quite tasty...but I found that many of them were thoroughly unworkable, as if they'd been translated into "vegetarian" without much thought. Matzoh balls are fussy enough with eggs -- with nothing to hold them together but potatoes, they're nearly impossible! Other recipes lacked flavor. In short, simply removing meat, dairy, and eggs does not necessarily make a good vegetarian recipe; something else needs to be provided to supply flavor and structure.
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