The Red Hot Cookbook
Fabulously Fiery Recipes for Spicy Food
Published on 13. August 2019
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-84975-788-1 (ISBN)
Description
A fiery and fun collection of more than 60 delicious recipes that showcase the flavour and heat of chilli peppers, perfect for fans of world food and tastebud-tingling heat.
In this fabulous book, chilli guru Dan May shares his favourite recipes celebrating chillies in all their varieties and strengths. Acquaint yourself first with the history of chillies, how to grow them at home, how to identify the key varieties and understand what gives them their distinctive heat.
Next, there are ideas here for every kind of dish: Soups & Salads; Nibbles & Sharing Plates; Main Dishes; Side Dishes; Sauces, Salsas & Marinades; Sweet Things & Drinks. Each recipe comes with a recommendation for the best variety of chilli to use so that you get the best flavour and heat. Mouth-watering recipes include Thai Beef Noodle Soup; Chilli-marinated Salmon Gravadlax; bite-size Jalapeno Poppers; Moroccan Spiced Lamb Burgers with Pickled Cucumber & Yogurt Dressing; Texas Marinated Steak with Stuffed Mushrooms; Sweet Chilli-glazed Ham; Fruity African Bean Stew; Chilli-brushed Roast Potatoes with Garlic & Rosemary; Quick Chilli Lime Mayo; three fiery pasta sauces; Chilli Pecan Brownies; and The Perfect Bloody Mary. If you know your Anchos from your Chipotles - or if you want to learn - you'll love these hot recipes.
Whether you prefer just a touch of spice or you like things seriously hot, The Red Hot Cookbook is guaranteed to breathe new life into your home cooking.
In this fabulous book, chilli guru Dan May shares his favourite recipes celebrating chillies in all their varieties and strengths. Acquaint yourself first with the history of chillies, how to grow them at home, how to identify the key varieties and understand what gives them their distinctive heat.
Next, there are ideas here for every kind of dish: Soups & Salads; Nibbles & Sharing Plates; Main Dishes; Side Dishes; Sauces, Salsas & Marinades; Sweet Things & Drinks. Each recipe comes with a recommendation for the best variety of chilli to use so that you get the best flavour and heat. Mouth-watering recipes include Thai Beef Noodle Soup; Chilli-marinated Salmon Gravadlax; bite-size Jalapeno Poppers; Moroccan Spiced Lamb Burgers with Pickled Cucumber & Yogurt Dressing; Texas Marinated Steak with Stuffed Mushrooms; Sweet Chilli-glazed Ham; Fruity African Bean Stew; Chilli-brushed Roast Potatoes with Garlic & Rosemary; Quick Chilli Lime Mayo; three fiery pasta sauces; Chilli Pecan Brownies; and The Perfect Bloody Mary. If you know your Anchos from your Chipotles - or if you want to learn - you'll love these hot recipes.
Whether you prefer just a touch of spice or you like things seriously hot, The Red Hot Cookbook is guaranteed to breathe new life into your home cooking.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
c80 colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84975-788-1 (9781849757881)
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Previous edition
Book
02/2012
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd
€41.03
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Person
Dan May once worked as a landscape photographer and started to grow chillies in 2005. Before he knew it, he had the world's most northerly chilli farm. His company Trees Can't Dance supplied a range of chilli sauces throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East and beyond. He lives in Haltwhistle, Northumberland where he now works as a writer and photographer.