Fruit and Vegetables

Looks at the main food groups and their importance in a healthy, balanced diet.

Includes recipes from around the world, using a variety of cookery skills.

Recipes feature tips and hints for cooks to show alternative ingredients and more-difficult cookery techniques.
Fruit and Vegetables
Contents:
Plants and a balanced diet
Looking at vegetables
Looking at fruits
Salad vegetables
Basic vinaigrette
Salade niçoise
Summer couscous salad
Caesar salad
Roots and tubers
Mashed potato
Pommes Dauphinoise
Borscht
Sweet potato soup
Green vegetables
Cooked cabbage
Eggs Florentine
Broccoli beef noodles
Broad beans and ham
Vegetable fruits
Ratatouille
Pumpkin pie
Caponata
Stuffed peppers
Legumes and pulses
Houmous
Lentil dahl
Tuna and bean salad
Minestrone soup
Orchard fruits
Orchard fruit crumble
Dutch apple cake
Peach Melba
Poached pears with chocolate sauce
Berries and currants
Summer pudding
Strawberry foam
Raspberry pavlova
Citrus fruits
Lemon sorbet
Satsuma cup cakes
Citrus wake up
Tropical fruits
Pineapple and ham pizza
Banana and mango shake
Far Eastern fruit salad
Glossary
Food safety
Useful techniques
Index
Useful websites