Böcker av Jim Peyton

';Valuable to anyone who loves cooking and eating south-of-the-border food and doesn't want to sacrifice taste for healthy choices or vice versa.' Foreword Just about everyone loves Mexican food, but should you eat it if you want to manage your weight or diabetes? Absolutely! There are countless authentic Mexican dishes that are naturally healthymoderate in calories, fat, and sugarand completely delectable. Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking presents some two hundred easy recipes with exceptional nutrition profiles. Substitutions that alter the taste and pleasure of food have no place here. Instead you'll find flavorful low-calorie dishes from the various schools of Mexican and Mexican American cooking in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. From traditional meat, seafood, and vegetarian entrees andm antojitos mexicanos, including tacos, enchiladas, and tamales, to upscale alta cocina Mexicana such as shrimp ceviche and mango salsa, these recipes are authentic, simple to prepare with supermarket ingredients, and fully satisfying in moderate portions. Every recipe includes nutritional analysis: calories, protein, carbs, fat, cholesterol, fiber, sugar, and sodium. You'll also find information on Mexican cooking and nutrition, ingredients, techniques, and equipment. Try the recipes in Naturally Healthy Mexican Cooking, and you'll discover that comfort food can be both delicious and good for you. Buen provecho!

Mexican cuisine spanning indigenous, pre-Hispanic, colonial, and contemporary eras

This book celebrates the cuisine of the north, the "other" Mexico. In these pages are a comprehensive array of dishes from a style of cooking which favors broiling and beef and flour tortillas, and a perhaps unexpected variety of seafood entrees and simple but elegant home-style dishes. Familiarity with the many subtleties of this cuisine is certain to enhance the pleasures of the table. For all their variety and distinction, these recipes are amazingly easy to prepare, using ingredients that are readily available. There are wonderful recipes for drinks, sauces, appetisers, soups, salads and vegetables, tortillas and bread, rice and beans, meats, poultry, seafood, light meals and snacks, sandwiches, desserts and sweets. One appendices is dedicated to "Entertaining with Northern Mexican Cuisine", another appendices is on "Nutrition & Northern Mexican Cuisine". El Norte is perfect for anyone who enjoys the preparation and consumption of Mexican food!