Learn to cook healthy meals fast with this gourmet cookbook filled with delicious simple recipes.

Healthy meals have never been this delicious and easy to prepare. Luiz Ratto's The Healthy Table deserves an award for making such simple work of designing nutritious low-fat, low-calorie meals that taste impressive enough to serve to your most discriminating company.

Gourmet Meals

Don’t be put off by healthy cooking. Even a lifetime of eating fast food can be turned around once you discover healthy foods you actually enjoy preparing. Not all tasty food is bad for you. Some of it, yes. But too often, dieters focus on weight loss and don't put enough effort into making healthy meals enjoyable. It is possible to have it both ways, and your health or weight-loss goals deserve a best effort. The Healthy Table provides gourmet meals that can be made quickly and will help you reach your goals.

Cooking Tips

There are cooking tips included for techniques, ingredients and equipment that are helpful in creating Luiz's recipes, though most can be made easily enough with basic supplies. If you're just beginning to make healthy recipes, these instructions are quite helpful.

Fast Easy Cooking

While most of the recipes in this cookbook can be made quickly, there is a section included called "Weekend Recipes" that are designed to be enjoyed when you have a bit more leisure time for cooking preparation. The combination of both fast and longer recipes makes for a book that's useful throughout the year.

Diet Fast

If you're looking to diet fast, good progress can be made by using one dinner recipe each night from this cookbook, and eating sensibly the rest of the day. Rather than trading real food for a diet shake, you'll be having a healthy meal that provides the nutrition so necessary to good health while dieting, and maintaining your new weight long term.

Healthy Recipes

Fast, easy, healthy recipes are provided for Curried Chicken Stew, Wild Rice-Stuffed Tomatoes, Green Grape Salsa, Seared Sea Bass, Butternut Squash Soup and Coconut Cookies among many other wonderful creations.

Grilled Marinated Salmon

4 Servings

Ingredients:

• Four 4-ounce salmon steaks, skin left on
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons minced ginger
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 1/2 tablespoon paprika
• 1 tablespoon minced thyme leaves

Directions:

1. Preheat the grill to a very high heat.
2. Rinse the salmon steaks and pat them dry.
3. In a shallow bowl large enough to fit the fish teaks, whisk together all the other ingredients.
4. Marinate the salmon for 15 to 30 minutes, turning them from time to time to coat both sides.
5. Grill the fish for 5 minutes on each side, or until crisp on the outside. The caramelization of the marinade will brown the skin.
6. Serve immediately.

Author: Luiz Ratto

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003

Pages: 192 pages

Price: $6.56