Published by Ebury, 2018, hardcover, illustrated, index, 310 pages, 20.4 cms x 27.6 cms x 3.0 cms, condition: new.
Yotam Ottolenghis award-winning recipes are always a celebration: an unforgettable combination of abundance, taste and surprise. SIMPLE is no different, with 120 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and favour combinations that Ottolenghi is loved for, but with minimal hassle for maximum joy.
Bursting with colourful photography for every recipe, SIMPLE showcases Yotams standout dishes that will suit whatever type of cooking you find easy whether thats getting wonderful food on the table in under 30 minutes, using just one pot to make a delicious meal, or a flavoursome dish that can be prepared ahead and then served when youre ready.
These brilliant, flavour-forward dishes are all SIMPLE in at least one (but very often more than one) way:
S short on time: less than 30 minutes
I 10 ingredients or less
M make ahead
P pantry
L lazy
E easier than you think
This is my desert island cookbook, as long as the island has a store selling a profusion of fresh vegetables, fruits, and Middle Eastern, Asian, and Italian ingredients. I certainly haven't cooked all the dishes, which might take a year or two, but reading them was a torturous experience as I drooled onto my virtual silk tie.
I can honestly say that not a single dish, from Raw Veg to Dessert was less than delicious. I could taste them in my culinary imagination! Their simplicity, creativity, and goodness (anything to avoid talking about health and wellness) is obvious. The few potentially unfamiliar ingredients (no pickled breast of Himalayan crevasse dove here) are described in detail at the end of the book, including advice about what to look for and where to find them. Thank Cod that Ottolenghi and his recipe wranglers did not try to be authentically anything (so depressingly 20th century) but combined strong elements of Middle Eastern cooking with Chinese and Italian. We are, after all, so cosmopolitan.
SIMPLE is the stunning new cookbook we have all been wishing for: Yotam Ottolenghis vibrant food made easy.
