Jane Butel’s Quick and Easy Southwestern Cookbook (1999)

One of the most acclaimed and innovative cooks in her field returns with more than 100 easy, flavorful, low-fat recipes–each of which calls for no more than six easy-to-find ingredients.

Jane Butel’s Tex-Mex Cookbook is a classic, and here Butel presents new recipes for her favorite food, from Lamb Chops with Jalapeno Jelly to Green Chile Corn Chowder. Most of the recipes are made with five ingredients or fewer and can be prepared in under 20 minutes.

Some, designated “Sunday Best” recipes, do call for a few more, but even these are simple. The recipes are lower in fat than those in Butel’s earlier cookbooks, and nutrition analyses are included for each.

This hard cover book with dust jacket is in excellent condition. The book came from a library sale so it has an extra protective plastic sleeve over the dust jacket. It has a Dewey Decimal number tag on the bottom of the spine and a library barcode sticker on the inside front cover. ISBN-13: 9780609602287

Price: $1.99