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.
Middle Eastern cooking ranges from streamlined weeknight staples and Mediterranean-inspired repeats to region-specific accounts of Israeli and Palestinian kitchens.
We curated 5 books for this guide:
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.
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.
Sababa by Adeena Sussman and Michael Solomonov wakes you up to the spice-bright, fig-sweet flavors of Tel Aviv's markets without ever leaving your kitchen.
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