The Roasted Vegetable: How to Roast Everything from Artichokes to Zucchini for Big, Bold Flavors in Pasta, Pizza, Risotto, Side Dishes, Couscous, Salsas, Dips, Sandwiches, and Salads

Andrea Chesman

Jan 2002 · Quarto Publishing Group USA

About this ebook

Bring out the flavor with oven guidelines and 150 recipes for “a delicious array of roasted vegetable dishes” from a James Beard Award nominee (Library Journal).

In The Roasted Vegetable, Andrea Chesman shows how every vegetable imaginable can be oven-roasted to succulent perfection, and she offers a wide-ranging collection of 150 mouthwatering recipes to please even the fussiest eaters. From simply sensational sides like Mixed Roasted Mushrooms in a Soy Vinaigrette to satisfying main dishes like Baked Orzo with Roasted Fennel and Red Peppers, vegetable lovers and vegetable haters alike will find here tasty, tempting dishes that don’t require a lot of work.

“How best to highlight the flavors of vegetables in traditional dishes? Chesman, author of the James Beard Award-nominated The Vegetarian Grill, advocates roasting. She elaborates the secrets of the art . . . Some of the most useful material is not in the form of recipes, but in a thorough chart listing vegetables and their roasting times, as well as any special methods required.” —Publishers Weekly

About the author

Andrea Chesman has been a food writer, cookbook author, and editor for three decades. Roughly half of the books she has written focus on vegetable cooking. These include The Pickled Pantry, Serving Up the Harvest, and Recipes from the Root Cellar, all published by Storey, and The New Vegetarian Grill, published by Harvard Common Press and a James Beard Cookbook Award nominee. She also has written for The New York Times, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, Eating Well, Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times, and Organic Gardening. A graduate of Cornell University, she lives with her family in Ripton, Vermont, near Middlebury.