Slow: Easy, comforting Italian meals worth waiting for

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Savour the art of slow cooking the Italian way, where flavours deepen and texture is softened to create comforting, inexpensive meals with little fuss.
In this newly updated edition, Slow, Gennaro shows you how to prepare authentic Italian meals in minutes and cook them to perfection with minimum effort by letting your oven or appliance do the work.

Accompanied by refreshed photography, you'll find a selection of new vegan recipes to balance out the meat-heavier chapters and complement cherished classic recipes that celebrate both the slow food movement and slow cooking. Think hearty casseroles and one-pot dishes that simmer to perfection, succulent roasts that tenderise from oven cooking, and comforting soups that quietly bubble away on the stovetop. Delight in sweet treats like meringues and fruit compotes, as well as freshly baked bread.

Gennaro, a traditional Italian cook, showcases the use of economical meat cuts, beans, root vegetables and pulses all enhanced by the slow cooking process. With plenty of options to suit the thrifty home cook, this collection features timeless Italian classics like Stuffed Whole Roasted and Filled Pumpkin, Rigatoni with Meatballs, Vegetable Lasagne, and Orange-infused Baba.

At the front of the book youll find a handy chart to convert tempartures between oven cooking times and your favourite kitchen appliance. Slow takes the hard work out of meal times to streamline your supper preparation; this is food worth waiting for whilst you enjoy the convenience of your slow cooker or oven doing all the heavy lifting.

Author Bio

Gennaro Contaldo was born in Minori in Amalfi. He came to Britain in the late 1960s and worked in several restaurants around the country and in London, where he eventually opened the award-winning Passione. He came to public attention as the chef who inspired Jamie Oliver when they worked together atAntonio Carluccio's Neal Street restaurant. In Spring 2011 he co-presented Two Greedy Italians on BBC2 with Antonio Carluccio and in spring 2012 a second series, Two Greedy Italians Still Hungry was broadcast. He is the author of several cookbooks, including Let's Cook Italian, Gennaro's Italian Year and Passione.