This month’s selection of

FIVE OF THE BEST

The start of the year sees a plethora of healthy eating cookbooks come onto the market, so dive in!

THE VEGETARIAN KITCHEN by Prue Leith and Peta Leith £25/Jarrold price £20 This colourful book boasts 100 delicious vegetarian (42 of which can be made vegan) recipes from Prue Leith - the founder of Leith’s School of Food and Wine, chef and Bake Off judge - and her niece Peta Leith, a former pastry sous chef at The Ivy and lifelong vegetarian. This gorgeous cookbook features simple, meat-free family dishes that bring delight to the extended Leith family table, time and time again. Recipes include slowroasted tomato and goat’s cheese galette; black bean chilli with lime salsa; blackberry and lemon pavlova and stone fruit streusel cake. Feast Fave.

THE VEGGIE CHINESE TAKEAWAY COOKBOOK by Kwoklyn Wan £15 Following the success of The Chinese Takeaway Cookbook, The Veggie Chinese Takeaway Cookbook offers more than 70 meat-free recipes, most of which can easily be made vegan, all made by Kwoklyn Wan, brother of TV celebrity Gok Wan. Both boys grew up working in their family’s Cantonese restaurant in Leicester in the 1970s. Since then Kwoklyn has spent his life cooking in Chinese restaurants and knows how to make home recipes taste just like the takeaway. There are lots of favourites to try from tom yum soup to spring rolls, fried tofu with chilli and black beans or aubergine with sesame seeds, to Hong Kong crispy noodles and sticky rice parcels.

THE PLAN BUY COOK BOOK by Gaby Chapman and Jen Petrovic £15 This is the perfect antidote to haphazard supermarket shopping and a lacklustre menu that sticks on repeat! The Plan Buy Cook Book is divided into three parts. PLAN with the 4+2+1 formula (which aims to cut weekly cooking time in half), along with seasonal meal-plan suggestions and handy tips on how to store food. BUY with a guide to pantry and fridge essentials, how to shop and save, and eliminating food waste. COOK with more than 80 simple, healthy and delicious recipes that even fussy eaters will love, from fast pad Thai to eat-and-freeze tagines, fresh barbecue salads and speedy sides. What’s not to like?

BEYOND THE NORTH WIND by Darra Goldstein £25/Jarrold price £20 This is a glorious cookbook packed with recipes and stories from Russia. There are 100 traditional recipes from the far northern corners of Russia, featuring ingredients and dishes that young Russians are rediscovering and combining with contemporary ideas. Recipes include puff pastry pies stuffed with mushrooms and fish, seasonal vegetable soups, braised cod with horseradish, roast lamb with kasha, homemade dairy products like farmers’ cheese and cultured butter, pickles, preserves and infused vodkas. The photography is particularly enticing.

April 23 - Don't miss a special evening celebrating the limited edition book, Jarrold 250 Years: A History, by Pete Goodrum. Pete and Caroline Jarrold will be in conversation with former Jarrold book buyer Chris Rushby at The Pantry restaurant on the third floor at 6pm for a 6.30pm start. Tickets are £5. DIARY DATE

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TWOCHUBBYCUBS THE COOKBOOK by James and Paul Anderson £20 After appearing on ITV’s This Time Next Year in 2019, James and Paul Anderson lost over 18 stone together. TwoChubbycubs refers to their popular slimming blog. This debut cookbook has 100 recipes of filling food and mini-blogs to make an entertaining compilation of slimming meals that are tried and tested to help you lose weight - and keep it off.

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