Mason Jar Pantry Meals Around the World: 55 Shelf-Stable Just-Add-Water Jar Meals from India, Thailand, Morocco, Japan and Beyond — With Global Spice Blends, Dry Umami and a Sourcing Guide - Couverture souple

HARKER, BAYDEN

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798173865908

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Every cuisine on earth already solved this problem.

How do you eat well in February? Dry it, store it, add water later. The answers look different — a jar of dal, a sack of bulgur, a string of chillies, a block of dried bonito — but they are the same answer, and they mean the world's food was built for a shelf.

Dal was a pantry meal three thousand years before anyone owned a fridge.

55 complete meals from twenty countries, layered dry into jars.

• South and Southeast Asia — dal tadka with a sizzling tempering, chana masala, khichdi, Sri Lankan coconut dal, Thai red curry noodles, tom yum, a pho spice bundle, massaman.
• The Middle East and North Africa — Moroccan harira, Egyptian koshari, Lebanese mujadara, Persian adas polo with dried lime, Turkish red lentil soup, freekeh pilaf, Tunisian lablabi.
• East Asia — miso ramen, shoyu ramen, Japanese curry rice, ochazuke, doenjang jjigae, hot and sour soup, congee, dan dan noodles.
• The Mediterranean and Eastern Europe — Greek fasolada and fakes, avgolemono, Spanish lentejas, pasta e ceci, Tuscan farro soup, caldo verde, Hungarian goulash soup, grochówka, kasha.
• Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America — Ethiopian misir wot and shiro wot, West African groundnut stew, jollof, waakye, Jamaican rice and peas, arroz con gandules, feijoada.

Fourteen pages before the first recipe

• Spice blends to make yourself — berbere, baharat, ras el hanout, garam masala, za'atar, hawaij and shichimi, with real proportions. A jar of each turns plain lentils and rice into food from five continents, at a fraction of supermarket prices.
• Umami without a fridge — dashi, miso powder, doenjang, dried shiitake, soy powder and tomato powder, and the one rule that governs all of them.
• A timing table for 21 grains, pulses and noodles, because most failures are two ingredients in one pot wanting different clocks.
• Dry fat, dry sour, dry sweet — coconut milk powder, amchur, tamarind, dried limes, sumac.
• Heat, mapped across five continents. Gochugaru is not cayenne. Ají amarillo is not chilli powder. Sichuan pepper is not even hot.
• A sourcing guide with eleven substitutions that work and five that do not.

Every recipe on one page

Jar size, tested shelf life and servings at the top. Ingredients numbered in the order they go in. Never more than four steps. And one plain warning at the foot — the miso that must not boil, the egg that curdles, the berbere that scorches, the basmati you must not stir.

Honest about what it is

These are home-cook versions built from what a shelf can hold. Some are essentially the real thing, because the real thing was already dry — misir wot, mujadara, dal tadka. Others are a fair rendering of a dish that normally wants something fresh, and where that is true the recipe says so rather than pretending otherwise.

No refrigeration. No special equipment. Nothing you cannot order to your door.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798173865908
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg