Choosing a healthy eating pattern is vitally important, as diet directly influences health. From The Culinary Institute of America, Techniques of Healthy Cooking is a comprehensive kitchen reference for understanding nutrition concepts, creating healthy eating patterns, developing healthy recipes and menus, and cooking healthy recipes. From soups, salads, and appetizers to main dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, there are nearly 500 recipes with more than 150 four-color photographs of ingredients, techniques, and finished dishes.

Created by the experts at The Culinary Institute of America, Techniques of Healthy Cooking is an indispensable companion in today’s health-conscious world. Drawing on the latest dietary guidelines, it provides detailed information for cooks eager to introduce more flavorful, healthier choices to their menus. You will find advice on ingredients and serving sizes, guidance on developing recipes and menus, and more than 400 delicious recipes. Throughout, nearly 150 vibrant, all-new color photographs showcase finished dishes and illustrate the techniques, ingredients, and equipment of healthy cooking. Inspired by the information and recipes in the book, you will be able to create dishes that are not only exciting and great-tasting, but healthy at the same time.

Prepared by The Culinary Institute of America, which has been hailed by Time magazine as "the nation's most influential training school for cooks," The Professional Chef's® Techniques of Healthy Cooking, Second Edition, offers nutritional cooking techniques and theories that have been tested and proven in the Institute's kitchens. It begins with the language of nutrition. The lessons of the USDA food guide pyramid, the Mediterranean pyramid, and a vegetarian pyramid from the American Dietetic Association (ADA) are used as a foundation for the Institute's seven principles of healthy cooking. They call upon the chef to introduce a wider array of foods such as fruits, grains, and vegetables into dishes. Successful strategies for cooking with less fat, moderating salt, and choosing and using healthy sweeteners are included as well. A separate section on creating healthy menus covers menu and recipe development, nutritional analysis, and nutrition labeling in menus and advertising. Special features of this incomparable guide include: Seven principles of healthy cooking Nearly 400 of the Institute's best recipes - 200 of them new to this edition Over 250 photos that illustrate basic and advanced preparation techniques and inspire with elegant presentations for healthful dishes Practical tips for healthy sauteing, stir frying, grilling, baking, smoke-roasting, and more Dependable guidelines for selecting healthy, fresh ingredients A nutritional analysis for each recipe, with separate breakdowns for sauces, side dishes, and other components Filled with time-tested and refined techniques for maximizing both nutrition and flavor, The Professional Chef's® Techniques of Healthy Cooking, Second Edition, is a completely trustworthy and irreplaceable reference for anyone interested in creating the finest, healthiest, and most flavorful of meals.

Takes a broad look at cooking healthfully, focusing not on excluding ingredients, but using them creatively for maximum freshness, flavor, and nutrition in over 130 recipes.

Includes color illustrations of USDA Food Guide Pyramid, Mediterranean Food Pyramid and Vegetarian Pyramid.

The ultimate guide to wonderful food that is low in fat, high in nutrients, and packed with flavor. Features 450 homestyle recipes and hundreds of time-saving tips.