The Ultimate Book of Main Course Dishes - Hardcover

This book presents over 365 recipes for every occasion from midweek family meals and straightforward suppers to relaxed weekend lunches, celebratory meals and the classic Sunday lunch. Every recipe is fully illustrated in colour with step-by-step instructions for perfect results. This is a wonderful collection including everything from home-cooked favourites such as cider-glazed ham and roast leg of lamb to innovative modern classics like seared tuna steaks with red onion salsa. It features over 1600 stunning colour photographs. Here is a glorious mix of the classic and the contemporary, offering dishes for every kind of occasion. Whether you are looking for ideas for a quick yet satisfying family supper, a traditional Sunday lunch or a celebration meal, this hugely informative book is all you need. Each recipe is illustrated with fabulous close-up photographs showing every detail. Clear step-by-step instructions help ensure perfect results every time. Find out how to make all the traditional dishes from moussaka and roast chicken to salad Nicoise and chili con carne. There are complete and comforting one-pot main-course dishes including seafood gumbo and pot-roasted brisket. For a celebratory meal to remember choose chicken with tarragon cream or Provencal beef and olive daube. The nutritious, tempting and tasty main course dishes in this fabulous book will provide inspiration for home-cooked food for all your main meals.

Jenni Fleetwood is a highly experienced food writer and cookery editor. She loves travelling, and she spends part of every year in South Africa, where, in addition to enthusiastically sampling the food and wine, Jenni helps to run Iziko lo Lwazi, a non-profit craft project. She is passionate about cooking, and has compiled and written many cookery books on creating fast yet good, nutritious food, perfectly tailored to the hectic family schedule or busy lifestyle. Jenni is also a storyteller and children's writer. Her other titles published by Lorenz Books include Clay-Pot Cooking, The Ultimate Book of Main Course Dishes, Red Hot! A Cook's Encyclopedia of Fire & Spice, Griddle Sizzle and Sear, Good Food Fast, and Spirited Cooking.