Fans of Ottolenghi SIMPLE will love these ten recipes from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love (2024)

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by Genevieve Halbert

published on 1 October 2021

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For many home cooks, the best-selling Ottolenghi SIMPLE was a user-friendly entry point into the always fascinating, but sometimes intimidating, world of Ottolenghi. For those not as au fait with advanced cooking techniques as the man himself, SIMPLE delivered classic Ottolenghi flavours, minus the fuss. If you loved SIMPLE, the brand new Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love is destined to become your new favourite cookbook. A collaborative effort from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen team (lead by Noor Murad), Shelf Love was partly inspired by the restrictions and limitations of 2020. While it is emphatically “not a lockdown cookbook”, according to Noor, the lockdown did shape the team’s approach to the recipes and the level of flexibility with which they are presented. There’s an emphasis here on getting creative with your store cupboard, making the most of your freezer, taking your veg box produce to new heights, and adapting recipes to suit your needs and preferences. The book is every bit as approachable and accessible as SIMPLE, and is destined to become just as popular. We’ve put together a list of ten dishes from Shelf Love that are guaranteed to get the attention of SIMPLE fans, from a berbere spiced chicken tray bake to a Middle Eastern twist on mac ‘n’ cheese.

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Yotam Ottolenghi, Noor Murad

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Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

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A collaborative effort from the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen team

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Designed to help you make the most of your pantry, fridge, and freezer

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With recipes ranging from one-pot feasts to sumptuous bakes

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Berbere Spiced Chicken, Carrots and Chickpeas

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

Made with berbere, an Ethiopian spice blend, this all-in-one recipe packs a fiery punch. A refreshing orange and coriander salsa serves to balance and enhance the spicy flavours of the dish.

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5-a-day Toad-in-the-hole

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

In this vegetarian spin on toad-in-the-hole, earthy root vegetables are pillowed in a puffy, golden batter and drizzled with homemade mushroom gravy.

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Spicy Pulled Pork Vindaloo

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

Spicy, melt-in-the-mouth strands of pork served up in soft rolls; a truly crowd-pleasing feast. The OTK team recommend serving this with a zingy lime and poppyseed slaw.

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Confit Tandoori Chickpeas

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

This super-easy chickpea dish has had its share of Instagram fame, thanks to its simplicity, flavour, and, let’s face it, dashing good looks.

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Sticky Sweet and Sour Plums and Sausages

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

A novel way to celebrate plum season, this dish pairs the sticky-sweet fruits with pomegranate molasses, sumac, and pork sausages. It’s got autumn written all over it.

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Skillet Berries, Bread, and Browned Butter

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

Put those frozen berries languishing at the back of your freezer to good use in this cosy dessert recipe, packed with oats, browned butter, and toasted sourdough. Star anise and vanilla make these humble ingredients sing.

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M.E. Mac ‘n’ Cheese with Za’atar Pesto

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

A Middle Eastern twist on a comfort food classic, this indulgent mac ‘n’ cheese is topped with crispy fried onions and aromatic za’atar pesto.

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Very Giant Giant Couscous Cake

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

This crisp, savoury cake recipe can be adapted to use up whatever grains, cheeses, and greens you happen to have lying around. An excellent addition to your zero-waste recipe arsenal.

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One-pan Crispy Chicken and Spaghetti

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

In this thoroughly unconventional but totally addictive recipe, chicken thigh pieces and spaghetti are cooked in the same pan. The dish is topped with cheesy breadcrumbs for added crunch.

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Kale Pesto Strata with Gruyère and Mustard

by The Ottolenghi Test Kitchen Team

from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love

For a truly luxurious brunch dish, you can’t do much better than this savoury bread pudding, flavoured with Gruyère and mustard.

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FAQs

How many recipes are in Ottolenghi Simple? ›

In Ottolenghi Simple, powerhouse author and chef Yotam Ottolenghi presents 130 streamlined recipes packed with his signature Middle Eastern–inspired flavors, all simple in at least (and often more than) one way: made in 30 minutes or less, with 10 or fewer ingredients, in a single pot, using pantry staples, or prepared ...

What kind of food is Ottolenghi? ›

It became a place with no single description but was a clear reflection of our obsessive relationship with food. From this, Ottolenghi has developed a style of food which is rooted in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean traditions, but which also draws in diverse influences and ingredients from around the world.

Why is Ottolenghi famous? ›

Yotam Ottolenghi is a famous Israeli born British chef who is well known for his group of delis, as well as cookbooks and TV appearances.

How many cookbooks does Ottolenghi have? ›

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He has co-authored and published eight cookbooks, including Plenty and Jerusalem, SIMPLE , FLAVOUR , and his latest, Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love. Ottolenghi is also a weekly columist for The Guardian.

Is Simple a good cookbook? ›

This cookbook will teach you how less is more in cooking. I cooked through all 140 recipes in this book, and I can confidently say that I loved 90% of the recipes. I constantly make at least 10 of these recipes, and can't recommend it enough.

Is Ottolenghi a Michelin star? ›

So far, his books have sold 5 million copies, and Ottolenghi - although he has never even been awarded a Michelin star and without being considered a great chef - has successfully blended Israeli, Iranian, Turkish, French and, of course, Italian influences to create a genre that is (not overly) elegant, international, ...

Are Ottolenghi recipes difficult? ›

We cook a fair amount of Ottolenghi recipes at home, because he's one of the regular food writers in our regular newspaper (The Guardian). They are usually fairly simple recipes that focus on a good combination of flavours - even as home cooks, they're not nearly the most complicated things we make.

Does Ottolenghi eat meat? ›

If anything, Mr. Ottolenghi — tall and dapper, with salt-and-pepper hair, half-rim glasses and a penchant for pink-striped button-downs and black sneakers — should be a vegetarian pinup. But here's the rub: he eats meat. Apparently this is enough to discredit him in the eyes of the most devout abstainers.

What is the Ottolenghi effect? ›

His commitment to the 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 color, flavor, bounty, and surprise.

What religion is Ottolenghi? ›

Yotam Ottolenghi was born to Jewish parents in Jerusalem and raised in its Ramat Denya suburb, the son of Michael Ottolenghi, a chemistry professor at Hebrew University and Ruth Ottolenghi, a high school principal. He is of Italian Jewish and German Jewish descent and often spent his childhood summers in Italy.

Is Ottolenghi A Vegan? ›

The guy's an omnivore but his recipes are overwhelmingly vegetarian and vegan. His vegetarian (not vegan) cookbook Plenty< spent years near the top of Britain's bestseller lists.

How rich is Ottolenghi? ›

Key Financials
Accounts20192021
Cash£1,336,712.00£1,688,812.00
Net Worth£1,543,770.00£2,583,579.00
Total Current Assets£1,938,410.00£3,162,953.00
Total Current Liabilities£406,652.00£612,500.00

What is the most sold cookbook of all time? ›

Betty Crocker's Cookbook (originally called Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book) by Betty Crocker (1950) – approx. 65 million copies. When the Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book was published by the fictional Betty Crocker in 1950, its sales actually rivaled those of the Bible.

Are Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi still friends? ›

The chemistry between them was immediate, not least because of their common background; they have been fast friends ever since. In 2002, Tamimi joined Ottolenghi and Bar in opening the first Ottolenghi Deli.

Does Ottolenghi have a restaurant in NYC? ›

London-based chef and cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi will not be opening in New York, or anywhere outside of London for that matter, in the foreseeable future.

How many recipes in a recipe book? ›

The standard expectation is that a cookbook should have between 70 and 100 recipes, but larger compendiums have at least 200.

How many recipes in a short cookbook? ›

Keep in mind that the average size of a cookbook is about 75 to 200 pages. On average, a typical cookbook will have around 150 recipes, but that varies as well, from small cookbooks with just 15 recipes to more than 300.

How many recipes are in the Avatar cookbook? ›

The book takes place during the time of Avatar: The Last Airbender up to the early days of Republic City. It collects 62 recipes.

How many recipes are in the One Piece cookbook? ›

It includes some forty recipes inspired by the canon, from the Baratie Arc to the Fish-Man Island Arc. A bonus feature, Sanji's Eye, includes information about Oda's own eating habits and the food typically served at his workstation and household.

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