Healthy Jewish Cooking

Award-winning cookbook extraordinare Steven Raichlen is back with a makeover for some of the heaviest, yet most scrumptuous food in the world: Jewish cuisine. Drawing from his colorful holiday dinners as a youth, Steven Raichlen has come up with ways to make the delicious yet rich klugels, pirogis, and lakes of his childhood suitable for today's healthy lifestyle. In "Healthy Jewish Cooking", Raichlen gives practical tips on how these traditional Jewish flavors can be made healthier with fresh ingredients, grilling and baking techniques, and tasty substitutions. His approach is threefold: 1. He focuses on traditional Jewish dishes that are naturally low in fat.2. He has created techniques, like using egg whites instead of whole eggs and chicken broth instead of schmaltz, to lighten up recipes that are notoriously heavy in fat.3. He has created healthy dishes that are Jewish in feel, but that the typical Jewish grandmother may never have heard of.With over 150 delicious recipes, Steven Raichlen proves that high-flavor, low-fat Jewish cooking is no longer an oxymoron!