Beautiful CookbooksOttolenghi Simple delivers 130 recipes that prove Middle Eastern cooking doesn't demand hours at the stove, and Yotam Ottolenghi has built them all to work in 30 minutes, 10 ingredients, or a single pot.
Beginner-friendly Mediterranean cooking here stretches from streamlined weeknight staples and five-ingredient meals to region-specific traditions rooted in Palestine and the wider Middle East.
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Ottolenghi Simple delivers 130 recipes that prove Middle Eastern cooking doesn't demand hours at the stove, and Yotam Ottolenghi has built them all to work in 30 minutes, 10 ingredients, or a single pot.
Suzy Karadsheh's The Mediterranean Dish delivers 120 bright, garlicky weeknight dinners that taste like you've lived by the sea.
Jamie Oliver's 5 Ingredients Mediterranean proves you don't need a sprawling shopping list to cook like you've been traveling the sun-soaked coasts.
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Let Sabrina Ghayour walk you through Persiana, where 100+ modern Middle Eastern recipes transform preserved lemons, rose water, and sour cherries into the kind of food you'll actually cook.
Falastin by Sami Tamimi, Tara Wigley, and Yotam Ottolenghi traces Palestinian cuisine through personal story and 120 recipes born of memory, geography, and the resourcefulness of a people.
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Updated August 2026