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Ottolenghi FLAVOUR

The third installment in Yotam’s bestselling and multi-award-winning PLENTY series (over 2 million copies sold). FLAVOUR celebrates the limitless potential of vegetables and reveals how to transform them into magical dishes.

This is, quite simply, brilliant ... the way Yotam Ottolenghi and co-author Ixta Belfrage confound your expectations make this my favourite 
Ottolenghi book yet.

As ever the recipes hit the mark, simple, low-effort dishes that pack real punch. Ottolenghi fans will know the kind of palate-dancing flavours to expect.

Dead easy to prepare, gorgeous to look at, and a triumph of texture and taste.

Ottolenghi is a culinary magician, transforming everyday vegetables, grains and pulses into exotic dishes.

Yotam Ottolenghi (Author) 
Yotam Ottolenghi is the restaurateur and chef-patron of the seven Ottolenghi delis, as well as the NOPI and ROVI restaurants. He is the author of eight bestselling and multi-award-winning cookery books. Yotam has been a weekly columnist for the Saturday Guardian for over thirteen years and is a regular contributor to the New York Times. His championing of vegetables, as well as ingredients once seen as 'exotic', has led to what some call 'The Ottolenghi effect'. This is shorthand for the creation of a meal which is full of colour, flavour, bounty and sunshine. Yotam lives in London with his family. www.ottolenghi.co.uk @Ottolenghi 
 
Ixta Belfrage (Author) 
Ixta Belfrage spent her youth absorbing food traditions in Italy, Mexico and Brazil. She began her culinary career at Ottolenghi's NOPI restaurant, before moving to the Test Kitchen, where she worked for Yotam Ottolenghi for five years, contributing to his columns in the Guardian and The New York Times. Ixta was Yotam's co-author on bestselling Flavour (2020) before publishing her first solo cookbook: MEZCLA (2022), which was nominated for 'best debut cookbook' at the Fortnum & Mason Awards and 'best international cookbook' at the James Beard Awards. MEZCLA was named one of the best cookbooks of 2022 by The Independent, The Times, Bon Appetit, Amazon, Spectator and Squaremeal.

Unlock new levels of flavour with vegetables 
 
Yotam Ottolenghi and co-writer Ixta Belfrage break down the three factors that create flavour with innovative vegetable dishes to excite and inspire. 
 
Ottolenghi FLAVOUR combines simple recipes for weeknights with show-stopping meals to take your time over, broken down into three sections that teach you how to use ordinary ingredients to create extraordinary food: 
 
Process explains cooking methods that elevate veg to new heights 
Pairing identifies four basic pairings that are fundamental for great flavour 
Produce features impactful vegetables that do the work for you 
 
Packed with photography and more than 100 recipes including Spicy Mushroom Lasagne, Miso Butter Onions, Aubergine Dumplings alla Parmigiana and Romano Pepper Schnitzels, Ottolenghi FLAVOUR is a next-level approach to vegetable cooking for Ottolenghi fans and vegetable lovers everywhere.

Untraditional recipes inspired by Brasil

FUSÃO

Ixta Belfrage

Ixta is what we all long for in a cook. Innovative, passionate, exciting & accessible.

I've been a mega fan of Ixta for years. The way she expresses life and color and soul into every dish is dang inspirational. And now you can have this feeling all to yourself, in book form! I keep mine on my bedside table and read it before I sleep and the first thing when I rise in the morning. Gives me that pep in my step just like her beautiful bold cooking!

Mezcla ... is one of the hottest cookbooks of the year....The dishes Belfrage has created are vibrant and, as befitting fusion cuisine, exciting and inventive. Spectator Cookbooks of the Year 2023

Subtitled 'recipes to excite', this book lives up to its billing

Colourful recipes in this, her debut cookbook, sing with big, bold flavours.

Most refreshing debut cookbooks of the year

Recipes to Excite

'One-in-a-million creativity, Ixta's food is simply outstanding!' Yotam Ottolenghi 
 
'This is such a beautiful and joyful book.' Nigella Lawson 
 
'Ixta is what we all long for in a cook. Innovative, passionate, exciting and accessible.' Andi Oliver 
 
'Ixta has a unique culinary voice, producing food that's bold and intense and audacious. Buckle up. It's quite a ride.' Diana Henry 
 
'Ixta is an alchemist with flavour. Thrilling recipes full of life and imagination. I can't wait to cook everything.' Jessie Ware 
 
 
Everyday eating with built in wow factor - from the Ottolenghi protégé shaking up the food world. 
 
MEZCLA means mix, blend or fusion in Spanish and in her first solo cookbook, Ixta Belfrage - loved for her inventive ingredient combinations - shares her favourite mezcla of flavours. Helpfully divided into quick recipes (for when you need something great on the table, fast) and longer recipes (for when you have time to slow down and savour the process), here are 100 bold, impactful recipes inspired by Italy, Brazil, Mexico and beyond. Creative, colourful and always delicious, this is food for every day and every occasion. 
 
Includes quick, flavourful recipes, such as Giant Cheese on Toast with Honey and Urfa Butter and Chicken with Pineapple and 'Nduja, as well as dishes to spend more time over: Chiles Rellenos with Salsa Roja Risotto and Prawn Lasagne with Habanero Oil.

Ixta Belfrage

Praise for MEZCLA

Ixta is what we all long for in a cook. Innovative, passionate, exciting & accessible.

I've been a mega fan of Ixta for years. The way she expresses life and color and soul into every dish is dang inspirational. And now you can have this feeling all to yourself, in book form! I keep mine on my bedside ...

Mezcla ... is one of the hottest cookbooks of the year....The dishes Belfrage has created are vibrant and, as befitting fusion cuisine, exciting and inventive. Spectator Cookbooks of the Year 2023

Ixta is what we all long for in a cook. Innovative, passionate, exciting & accessible.

I've been a mega fan of Ixta for years. The way she expresses life and color and soul into every dish is dang inspirational. And now you can have this feeling all to yourself, in book form! I keep mine on my bedside ...

Mezcla ... is one of the hottest cookbooks of the year....The dishes Belfrage has created are vibrant and, as befitting fusion cuisine, exciting and inventive. Spectator Cookbooks of the Year 2023

Ixta is what we all long for in a cook. Innovative, passionate, exciting & accessible.

I've been a mega fan of Ixta for years. The way she expresses life and color and soul into every dish is dang inspirational. And now you can have this feeling all to yourself, in book form! I keep mine on my bedside ...

Mezcla ... is one of the hottest cookbooks of the year....The dishes Belfrage has created are vibrant and, as befitting fusion cuisine, exciting and inventive. Spectator Cookbooks of the Year 2023

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