Easy Dutch Oven Cooking: Classic and Contemporary Recipes in 5 Steps or Less

by Sarah Furcini

100 Classic and modern recipes to fall in love with your Dutch oven

With all the fancy new cooking gadgets on the market, it’s easy to overlook trusty old-timers like the Dutch oven—but they’re durable, simple to use, and cook just about anything. Easy Dutch Oven Cooking is the perfect Dutch oven cookbook to help you get the most out of this awesome piece of cookware—with 100 easy-to-follow, delicious recipes.

With simple techniques for everything from poaching eggs and baking casseroles to sautéing veggies, this Dutch oven cookbook offers tasty recipes with minimal prep and cleanup time. Cook up dishes like Sesame Ginger Soba Noodle Salad, Beef Stroganoff, Roast Whole Chicken over Radishes, Coconut Shrimp, Olive Bread, and more. Find out how to care for your Dutch oven, and learn pro tips like preheating and using the right utensils.

Inside this essential Dutch oven cookbook, you’ll

Go Dutch—Meet the Dutch oven, find details on the different types and sizes, and discover a variety of different cooking techniques. 100 Convenient recipes—This Dutch oven cookbook uses easy-to-find ingredients with recipes that take no more than five steps—many cook up in just 30 minutes or less.Helpful labels—Each recipe in this Dutch oven cookbook is listed as a classic or a new twist on a longtime favorite and includes handy dietary labels.

With the simple recipes in this Dutch oven cookbook, you just might have discovered your forever pot.

Genres: Cookbooks

274 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 4, 2020

Reviews

[Annie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Easy Dutch Oven Cooking Classic and Contemporary Recipes in 5 Steps or Less is a tutorial and recipe guide by Sara Furcini. Due out 18th Aug 2020 from Callisto on their Rockridge Press imprint, it's 259 pages (for the ebook version) in paperback and ebook formats (ebook available now). It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, this book is currently included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free.

The recipes are arranged by category: Breakfast & Brunch, Pasta Rice & Grains, Soups Stews & Chilis, Braises & Roasts, Fried Foods, Sides & Sauces, Breads, and Desserts. I really appreciated the inclusion of plant based dishes. Many of these are -hearty- one-dish mains that even my meat loving family really devoured (without complaining).

Ingredient measurements are supplied in American measurements only. There's a conversion chart for metric measures in the appendices. Special recipe notes such as gluten free, vegetarian, nut free, etc are listed in the header for each recipe. There's no included nutritional information. Extra tips or recipe alternatives are listed in sidebars with the recipes. The recipes themselves are fairly straightforward and are made with easily sourced ingredients. Many are very simple, none of them are overly complex.

The photography is not abundant; most of the recipes are not illustrated, but the photographs which are included are clear and well done. I wish there had been more photographs and serving suggestions, but I do understand that extra photography increases the price of book projects very quickly.

This is a huge collection of recipes and even allowing for the fact that some of them are very similar to others in the same category, this will keep one-pot/everyday cooking afficianados going for ages. These are simple "everyday" recipes which are anything but boring. We tried several dishes and all of them were tasty and well written. (We didn't try any of the bread or dessert recipes, but I found no glaring errors with a quick read-through).

We're definitely going to try more of these recipes. Well written book, tasty recipes. I've dinged half a star for the near-total lack of photographs. For cooks who -need- photographs for serving ideas, this will be a disappointment. Since it's a one-pot-cooking book, the lack of photos shouldn't be crippling for most readers.

Four and a half stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

[Jill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every once in a while, I’ll look over at my boyfriend’s computer, see what’s on the screen, and roll my eyes. Because once again, he’s on that website. You know the one I mean. The one with those expensive, European enamel-covered pots that can cost about as much as the down payment on a car. He can’t seem to stay away from them. But I’m okay with that, because I’ve figured out how amazing they are to cook with.

But if you’re just getting started with a Dutch oven, this is the cookbook companion you’ve been looking for. Easy Dutch Oven Cooking—well, it’s all right there in the title—has 100 recipes for your Dutch oven. From classic to contemporary, these recipes are all easy, with 5 steps or fewer. From your breakfast of Shakshuka Eggs in Purgatory to a lunch of Black Bean Soup with Citrus, to dinner of Roast Whole Chicken with Radishes with a dessert of Peach Cobbler, you can literally use your Dutch oven to cook all day.

Easy Dutch Oven Cooking not only has all the recipes, it also has cleaning and care instructions for your Dutch oven, tools and ingredients to stock your kitchen with, pro tips for cooking with Dutch ovens, and conversion help if your pan is larger or smaller than the one called for in the recipe. There are some 30-Minute Meals and One Pot Meals, and many recipes are marked Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Nut-Free, Vegetarian, and/or Vegan for those with special diets.

The recipes include the classic recipes that you think of a Dutch oven for—braises like Pork Tenderloin with Roasted Fennel, Boeuf Bourguignon, or Stout-Braised Pot Roast. There are soups like Tomato Bisque with Shrimp, Vegetable and Lentil Soup, or Chicken and Rice Soup. There are chilis—Pork Green Chili. Chipotle Turkey Chili, Vegetarian Three-Bean Chili.

You can fry with it, for the Powdered Sugar Beignets, Mozzarella Sticks, Coconut Shrimp, or Parmesan Parsley Fries. You can bake in it, to make the Jalapeno Corn Bread with Honey Butter, Whole-Wheat Bread, or Caramelized Banana Bread.

But you can also make a Deep Dish Pizza, Fluffy Cheesecake, Easy Caramel Sauce, Artichoke Dip, Lemony Quinoa and Kale Salad, Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting, Buffalo Chicken Wings, or Tiramisu.

I love the variety of recipes in Easy Dutch Oven Cooking, and I appreciate that the recipes are written simply and clearly. The creativity of author and food blogger Sara Furcini is crazy, but I do wish there were more photos of the food. Some of these dishes are completely new to me, and it’s always easier to know if I’m making it right when there are photos.

So even if you don’t have one of those fancy European Dutch ovens, you can still make these simple but super-flavorful meals. So you don’t have the Ferrari of Dutch ovens. A Hyundai can get you there just as well, and there are lots of less expensive Dutch ovens that work beautifully too (I try to convince my boyfriend of this one, but he has a thing about France). Anyway, that’s the beauty of a Dutch oven—big flavors made easy and simple on the cleaning. With a Dutch oven and Easy Dutch Oven Cooking, you can make just about anything you want.

Egalleys for the Easy Dutch Oven Cooking were provided by Rockridge Press through the Callisto Media Publisher’s Club, with many thanks.

[Cat · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Dutch ovens! I was really excited to see the recipes Furcini creates in hers. These recipes will appeal to the younger cooks who are just starting to discover Dutch ovens and are realy into foods. I'm afraid that not being much of a foodie, I'll continue to cook "old school" in mine. But Sara Furcini's book contains lots of wonderful recipes that covers every aspect of cooking- one pot, breakfasts,ides, soups and stews, desserts, car and maintences of the ovens- useful info for new owners. The photos looked great and I am sure will look even better in color!
I received a Kindle from Netgalley in exchange for a fair review.