The Bottom Line
If you want the kosher meals you are eating and serving to loved ones to be healthier, then Kosher by Design: Lightens Up by Susie Fishbein is the perfect book for you. The book provides innovative recipes for delicious, nutritious dishes, as well as healthier versions of old favorites. It also provides succinct descriptions of ingredients you should start to avoid or include. Improve your knowledge of and ability to prepare nutritious food.
Pros
- Delicious kosher recipes that are healthy and lite
- Easy to prepare recipes that look impressive
- Inspiring food photography
Cons
- Ideas for entertaining are not practical for many
Description
- Over 140 nutritious and delicious kosher recipes
- Full-page, color photograph accompanies each recipe
- Information about oils, flours, grains, sugars, seeds and nuts
- Definitions of health lingo (organic, free range, farmed fish...)
- Entertaining ideas
- Recipe index
Guide Review - Kosher by Design: Lightens Up, by Susie Fishbein
In her cookbook Kosher by Design: Lightens Up, Susie Fishbein combines Biblical Dietary Laws with the latest nutrition information to create healthy, kosher recipes. But that’s just the beginning. Fishbein also takes into consideration our discriminating tastes, busy schedules and modern kitchens, so her recipes are also delicious and easy to prepare.
Why serve Deli Rolls with their fatty puff pastry and nitrate-rich meat, when you can serve Healthy Deli Rolls with phyllo dough, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, turkey and pumpkin seeds? Why serve potatoes with your Shabbat chicken, when you can serve Saffroned Barley or Baked Brown Rice and Edamame? Each recipe is accompanied by a beautiful, full-page, color photograph which inspires and guides.
My favorite recipes in the books are the staples. Fishbein’s House Salad and Creamy Garlic Salad have become regulars in my weekly repertoire. And her Marrakesh Carrot Salad joins other salads in dressing up my Friday night table each week.
Fishbein, editor of the highly popular Kosher Palette and author of the Kosher by Design series, has succeeded to produce another cookbook gem. Lightens Up can help you and kosher cooks everywhere to raise the nutrition and lower the fat level, without compromising the look or taste, of the meals they are preparing and serving to their loved ones.
Why serve Deli Rolls with their fatty puff pastry and nitrate-rich meat, when you can serve Healthy Deli Rolls with phyllo dough, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, turkey and pumpkin seeds? Why serve potatoes with your Shabbat chicken, when you can serve Saffroned Barley or Baked Brown Rice and Edamame? Each recipe is accompanied by a beautiful, full-page, color photograph which inspires and guides.
My favorite recipes in the books are the staples. Fishbein’s House Salad and Creamy Garlic Salad have become regulars in my weekly repertoire. And her Marrakesh Carrot Salad joins other salads in dressing up my Friday night table each week.
Fishbein, editor of the highly popular Kosher Palette and author of the Kosher by Design series, has succeeded to produce another cookbook gem. Lightens Up can help you and kosher cooks everywhere to raise the nutrition and lower the fat level, without compromising the look or taste, of the meals they are preparing and serving to their loved ones.
