Healthy, Quick & Easy Bento Box is a new tutorial guide with recipes by Ophelia Chien. Due out 3rd Aug 2021 from Penguin Random House on their DK Alpha imprint, it's 160 pages and will be available in paperback format.
This is an compact introduction to bento. Bento
can be healthy and tasty with eye appeal, organization, variety, and
portion control in one package. This collection also shows that it
doesn't need to be very time consuming or difficult. Alongside those benefits, the recipes included in this collection represent a number of different world cuisines and are surprisingly fun and vibrant.
The
introduction includes suggestions and tutorials for basic bento
followed by chapters arranged roughly thematically: classic Japanese
bento, pan-Asian, western style, and staples and partial ingredients.
The
recipes have their ingredients listed bullet style in a sidebar.
Measurements are given in US standard with metric/SI units in
parentheses (yay!). Special tools and ingredients are also listed, along
with yields and cooking directions. Most of the ingredients are easily
sourced at any moderately well stocked grocery store. Nutritional info is included per box, with the suggested combinations and bento box build. Some of the recipes are vegetarian and vegan friendly. Many additional recipes can be adapted to a plant based diet.
This is a very well
written and organized collection. It would also lend itself very well to fans of meal planning
or once-a-week-cooking. Most of these recipes make several servings
which could easily be used for a week's lunch planning. I've been
avoiding buying food at the cafe at work during the pandemic and these
recipes have provided good mileage for avoiding boring lunches
for me without a lot of effort.
Five stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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