Title:	The 15-minute Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners: 150 Fast, Fresh, and Flavorful Recipes with 4-week Meal Plan and Easy Shopping Lists
	Author:	Yolanda Blake
	Published:	January 28, 2025, Independently Published
	No. of Pages:	192
	Cover Price:	$31.50 Hardcover, $12.99 Paperback

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The Mediterranean diet is considered extremely healthy, and there are hundreds of mouthwatering dishes in that genre. However, many readers don’t have time to prepare their favorite Mediterranean dishes. The 15-minute Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners: 150 Fast, Fresh, and Flavorful Recipes with 4-week Meal Plan and Easy Shopping Lists by Yolanda Blake, is a good way to speed up preparation to improve health in general and also to drop a few pounds.

The beginning of this cookbook has information on the Mediterranean diet, including ingredients and ways to incorporate them in the diet. The recipes include all courses – appetizers, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and desserts – all that are supposed to take 15 minutes to make. The recipes are written in the traditional manner with the ingredients listed first, followed by step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow. Most of the recipes have short lists of ingredients, and there are comments at the beginning of each recipe. There are a few problems with some of the recipes: the author doesn’t specify what size of pan to use for the cakes and just says “small baking pan,” which is relative, and small is different to everyone. Then it says to bake for 10 minutes. I don’t know of a cake that is done in 10 minutes, so in order to keep with the 15 minute label, she instructs to bake so little that the batter will still be liquid and the cakes won’t be baked through.

The dishes are accompanied by beautiful, albeit small, photographs that are very nice and make the dishes very inviting.

All told, there are some good quick recipes in this cookbook, but most take more than 15 minutes to make.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.