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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Plenty teams up with Ottolenghi Test Kitchen’s Ixta Belfrage to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through 100+ super-delicious, plant-based recipes.

IACP AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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“Bold, innovative recipes . . . make this book truly thrilling.”—
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Level up your vegetables. In this groundbreaking cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage offer a next-level approach to vegetables that breaks down the fundamentals of cooking into three key elements: process, pairing, and produce. For process, Yotam and Ixta show how easy techniques such as charring and infusing can change the way you think about cooking. Discover how to unlock new depths of flavor by pairing vegetables with sweetness, fat, acidity, or chile heat, and learn to identify the produce that has the innate ability to make dishes shine.

With main courses, sides, desserts, and a whole pantry of “flavor bombs” (homemade condiments), there’s something for any meal, any night of the week, including surefire hits such as Stuffed Eggplant in Curry and Coconut Dal, Spicy Mushroom Lasagne, and Romano Pepper Schnitzels. Chock-full of low-effort, high-impact dishes that pack a punch and standout meals for the relaxed cook,
Ottolenghi Flavor is a revolutionary approach to vegetable cooking.
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"With a book called Flavor, it’s clear from the outset what you’re getting into. And with Ottolenghi’s name attached to it, you know it’s going to be special. "—National Post

"What sets [Ottolenghi]
Flavor apart from its predecessors is its focus on explanation—there are in-depth profiles of the cooking techniques and flavour pairings at play in these recipes." —Chatelaine

"The food is phenomenal.... New readers will be coached and coaxed through each technique, while long-timers will find something new here—even if they own every other book in the chef’s oeuvre." —Epicurious

"A new Yotam Ottolenghi cookbook is always an event, and the vegetable-based
Ottolenghi Flavor is a winner."—Julian Armstrong, Montreal Gazette

" With compelling dishes [in
Ottolenghi Flavor], the carnivore in your house won’t notice the absence of meat."—Vancouver Sun

"In his newest cookbook,
Ottolenghi Flavor, he and his test kitchen’s recipe developer, Ixta Belfrage, break down the fundamentals of cooking.. [and] will have you cooking in an all-new and very flavourful way."—BC Living

About the Author

Yotam Ottolenghi is a seven-time New York Times best-selling cookbook author who contributes to the New York Times Food section and has a weekly column in The Guardian. His previous book, Ottolenghi Simple, was selected as a best book of the year by NPR and the New York Times; Jerusalem, written with Sami Tamimi, was awarded Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals and named Best International Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation. He lives in London, where he co-owns an eponymous group of restaurants and the fine-dining destinations Nopi and Rovi.

Ixta Belfrage spent her youth dipping her fingers into mixing bowls in places as far-flung as Italy, Mexico, and Brazil. She formally began her culinary career at Ottolenghi's Nopi restaurant before moving to the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen, where she has worked for four years, and contributing to Yotam's columns. She lives in London, where she makes regular guest chef appearances at some of the city's top restaurants.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press (October 13, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0399581758
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0399581755
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.94 x 1.25 x 10.9 inches
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Customers find the recipes in the book flavorful and good. They find the content informative and compelling, with good information on various techniques. The photos are clear and well-organized. Readers appreciate the health benefits and innovative combinations. However, opinions differ on the ease of preparation - some find it quick and easy to make on a weekday, while others feel some recipes and ingredients are too weird or obscure.

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60 customers mention "Flavorful recipes"56 positive4 negative

Customers enjoy the flavorful and chef-driven vegetarian recipes in the book. They find the recipes easy to follow and say the meals are good and entertaining. The photos are beautiful and the recipes are developed with a great palate.

"...Gripes aside, the recipes themselves sound great and I will be cooking through this book, as I have done with all of Ottolenghis other books...." Read more

"...of plant-based cookbooks, and true to form, provides a number of drool-worthy recipes likely to join my growing rotation of Ottolenghi-inspired..." Read more

"...It is topped with rice noodles, green beans, cucumbers, and an herb mix of of mint, basil and cilantro. An amazing mix of flavors and textures...." Read more

"...or difficult-to-source ingredients, however, the flavor combinations are unique and interesting and not things I would come up with on my own...." Read more

15 customers mention "Content"12 positive3 negative

Customers find the book informative and compelling. They appreciate the good information on various techniques to enhance flavor, learning about elements of food they haven't thought about. The pictures, directions, and explanations add to the overall enjoyment. Readers mention that the book offers new ideas to try, plethora of recipes, and background information.

"This is an informative book with good info on various techniques to enhance flavor of vegetables. So far every recipe we’ve tried has been excellent...." Read more

"...This book Flavor includes beautiful photos and LOTS of inspiration. I highly recommend it!!" Read more

"As with all of Ottolenghi's cookbooks, "Flavor" is simply a masterpiece of imagination and professional writing...." Read more

"There is no useful table of contents so it is not possible to browse a list of recipes. Really terrible decision by the editors. Minus two stars...." Read more

15 customers mention "Photos quality"14 positive1 negative

Customers appreciate the clear photos in the book. They find the pictures helpful, with some showing intermediate steps. The recipes are accompanied by full-page or two-page photo spreads.

"...In that chapter every recipe has a corresponding full page sized photo or even a two page photo spread, sometimes multiple photos on a two page..." Read more

"...like that it will lay flat and I love that there are photos for pretty much every finished dish, sometimes with photos of intermediate steps, as well..." Read more

"...The pictures are clear and I can't wait to start cooking all the dishes I think very interesting. This book might just turn me to be Vegan!" Read more

"Very interesting recipes with excellent photography that makes you want to try them." Read more

10 customers mention "Writing style"10 positive0 negative

Customers find the book well-written and organized. They appreciate the clear explanations and illustrations for making plant-based meals. The book includes detailed directions and pictures for preparing each dish.

"...Jonathan Lovekin provide an inspiration for completion and presentation of each dish...." Read more

"...So well written, this book was thought of to help you level up your vegetables...." Read more

"...the meal I tried was so blah, but he demonstrated in this book and explained well how to make a plant base meal interesting with the technique he..." Read more

"This book is incredibly well presented and interestingly organized. Have a look at the Contents photo. And the food…. WhoaMyGod!..." Read more

9 customers mention "Health benefits"9 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the healthy meals in the book. They say the ingredients have helped them improve their cooking. Many of the recipes are vegan or easily adaptable.

"...These ingredients have been used to enhance, draw out and accentuate, they are umami rich, many of them are aged, and all have complex layers of..." Read more

"...have introduced me to exciting ingredients that have helped me punch up my home cooking...." Read more

"This book has been transformative for my cooking since I got it for Christmas. At the outset, it must be said that I'm an experienced cook...." Read more

"Ottolenghi always delivers! I love that most of the recipes are either vegan or easily adaptable, and always packed with flavor...." Read more

3 customers mention "Book design"3 positive0 negative

Customers like the book design. They mention the food is flavorful and the combinations are innovative. The shaved tomatoes make a surprising good combination with the roasted garlic butter.

"...Unusual combinations to help you develop your palate and make everyday meals way more entertaining, very typical Ottolenghi...." Read more

"...like caraway seeds and shaved tomatoes that made a suprisingly good combination with the roasted garlic butter...." Read more

"...for people who are veg or just love super flavorful food and innovative combinations. Get it us out of a recipe rut." Read more

16 customers mention "Ease of preparation"9 positive7 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the recipes' ease of preparation. Some find them quick and easy to make on a weekday, with simple ingredients to use and source. Others feel some recipes are not easy, with unfamiliar ingredients or complex preparation times. There are also complaints about the limited number of recipes in the book, which makes it difficult to browse a list of them.

"...first 12 recipes alone, there are 6 recipes that have a cooking time of 30 mins or less, and the prep for all of those recipes is speedy, with some..." Read more

"...True to nature though, the recipes and some ingredients get a bit fussy from time to time but you can still learn the basics of seasoning tastes so..." Read more

"...which provides lists of recipes that home cooks like me can prepare in 30 minutes or an hour..." Read more

"There is no useful table of contents so it is not possible to browse a list of recipes. Really terrible decision by the editors. Minus two stars...." Read more

6 customers mention "Ingredients"4 positive2 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the ingredients in the book. Some find them exciting and hard-to-find, while others feel they are unconventional for the average person and there are recipes that use dairy without any plant-based alternatives.

"...appreciate about Ottolenghi's books is that they have introduced me to exciting ingredients that have helped me punch up my home cooking...." Read more

"...is a great cook, but, as I looked through recipes, the ingredients were a bit unconventional for the average person with ingredients like saffron..." Read more

"...The process section emphasizes methods like charring, aging, and infusing ingredients...." Read more

"Weird Ingredients - Won't Ever Use This Book..." Read more

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Another great addition to the Ottolenghi line up!
For fans of Plenty and Plenty More, embrace Flavor, a book that Ottolenghi describes as Plenty Three.EDIT: I'm adding the following comment on cooking times a day after I posted my initial review. A reviewer below mentioned that in the whole book there are only 5 recipes that can be produced in under 30 mins. I disagree.Just in the first 12 recipes alone, there are 6 recipes that have a cooking time of 30 mins or less, and the prep for all of those recipes is speedy, with some ingredients being prepped during the cooking time. Yes, there are recipes that have multiple steps, and long cooking times, but this is not advertised as a recipe book specifically for those who need to get dinner on the table in 30 mins. There are plenty of other books out there that offer that. However, a quick scan shows a number of recipes that do meet that bill. For example, Noors Black Lime Tofu. The tofu is tossed in cornstarch and fried for 6 mins, while the tofu is frying throw the onions and garlic in a food processer. Fry that for 10 mins. Add the spices etc and cook for another minute. Add water, simmer for 6 mins. Add the tofu to the sauce and toss in the spinach, serve straight from the pan and dinner is done. The One Pan Orecchiette Puttanesca cooking time is just 14 mins if you boil the pasta while the sauce is reducing, then stir together.. Some of the more labor intensive recipes you might like to save for the weekend but there are weeknight healthy and delicious sounding recipes in this book.Flavor contains 100 recipes, which are almost all vegetarian sometimes vegan (45 recipes) that occasionally dabbles with fish sauce and parmesan, eggs and dairy. Yotam offers substitutions for various ingredients where possible such as light soy sauce for fish sauce.At the start of the book, Yotam lists the 20 ingredients that he considers essential to this book. He is not suggesting that you rush out and purchase them all right away (if you don’t already have them, you will likely want to stock most of them anyway, after trying these recipes) He describes these ingredients are being the essence of the book. These ingredients have been used to enhance, draw out and accentuate, they are umami rich, many of them are aged, and all have complex layers of flavor.These 20 ingredients are: Aleppo Chile (Gochugaru Korean hot pepper flakes are suggested as a substitute) Ancho chile, Anchovies packed in olive oil, black garlic, Persian dried black lime (he suggests that regular lime could be used, but to me, Persian lime has a scented, earthy tang that really is a different thing entirely from fresh lime) Cascabel Chiles (ancho as a substitute) Dried Whole Chipotle, Fish Sauce, Gochujang paste, Ground cardamom, Hibiscus flowers, jarred butter beans (canned are acceptable but jarred is preferred) Mango Pickle (not chutney) Masa Harina, Miso (preferably white not sweet white) red bell pepper flakes, rice vinegar, rose harissa (regular harissa can be substituted, I would like to add that culinary rose petals can also be crushed and added to harissa, and these can be found at World Market or online) Shaoxing Wine, Tamarind Paste.The book is divided into three main categories. Process, Pairing and Produce.Those categories are further divided intoProcess: Charring, Browning, Infusing, AgingPairing: Sweetness, Fat, Acidity, Chile HeatProduce: Mushrooms, Alliums, Nuts and Seeds, Sugar: Fruit and BoozeFinally we have Flavor Bombs which is a two page spread, showing all of the condiments that are in the book with the corresponding page number (see my photo) Butters, oils, salsas, mayonnaise, sauce, pickles, salts and spiced nuts.Each chapter begins with an essay on that subject which covers the subheadings. I love this, as I read cookbook like novels and here, each method and the equipment used, and a run down of some of the recipes and how they embody the method used, is described in detail with some cute, cartoon-like line drawings.Process for example, has 12 pages describing the processes and benefits to Charring, Browning, Infusing and Aging before we get to the recipes.Here are a selection of four recipes from each chapter (please see the corresponding photo)The Process ChapterCharring: Iceberg Wedges with Smoky Eggplant CreamBrowning: Hasselback Beets with Lime Leaf ButterInfusing: Chilled Avocado Soup with Crunchy Garlic OilAging: The Ultimate Roasting Pan RaguThe Pairing ChapterSweetness: Coconut and Tumeric Omelette FeastFat: Stuffed Eggplant in Curry and Coconut DalAcidity:Noors Black Lime TofuChile Heat:Saffron Tagliatelle with Ricotta and Crispy Chipotle ShallotsThe Produce ChapterMushrooms:Broccoli with Mushroom Ketchup and NoriAlliums:Olive Oil Flatbreads with Three Garlic ButterNuts and Seeds:Tofu Meatball KormaSugar: Fruit and Booze Tapioca Fritters with Orange Syrup and Star AniseI have listed a range of recipes from main courses to side dishes.In the process chapter for example Charring has 7 recipes, Browning has 11 recipes, Infusing has 8 recipes and Aging has 9 recipes. In that chapter every recipe has a corresponding full page sized photo or even a two page photo spread, sometimes multiple photos on a two page spread. Additionally, there are a number of photos of Yotam and Ixta cooking.This brings me to a bit of a gripe. I know that the majority of cooks like a photo of every recipe, and many people find it hard to get enthusiastic about a recipe with no photo, but this seems to be overkill at the expense of the amount of recipes in this book.Plenty had 120 recipes to 288 pagesPlenty More had 150 recipes to 352 pagesFlavor has a mere 100 recipes to 317 pages.Admittedly, the chapter essays take up some of this, but I never thought I would say this about a cookbook, but the photos are overkill. While I enjoy the photos of Yotam and Ixta cooking, these could have been reduced in size to half or even quarter page photos.The two page spreads of a single recipe, for example the Hasselback Beets, could have been reduced in size to a single page to make way for another recipe.Noors Black Lime Tofu has no less than three full pages of photos. A photo of the tofu in the pan with the paste, then a photo of the spinach being added to the pan, then a photo of the spinach being stirred in, then a photo of the spinach almost completely stirred in and almost wilted, and then a photo of the finished dish with spinach wilted satisfactorily.This type of photo series could have been kept for recipes that were a bit more complex, such as the home made Saffron Tagliatelle. That recipe has no photo at all and could really have used a series for people who have never made pasta before. Instead the two page spread has been used for the Saffron Tagliatelle dish with Ricotta and Crispy Chipotle Shallots. And in that instance the photo series shows the already made Tagliatelle on a tray, then it being cooked in water, then it in the pan with the parmesan being added, then its in the pan with the parmesan added now, and then a full sized photo of it in the pan with the crispy shallots on top.There always has to be a gripe, but for me this is a pretty big one. If I was the editor I would have said one photo only per recipe unless a difficult technique really needs to be shown and add more recipes in place of all the rest. The book is pretty, but beyond a photo of each finished dish, the rest of the photos are just eye candy and most of the extra photos of the type I described above, are not what I would consider helpful or even particularly interesting. Personally, I would prefer more recipes.Another area which I think had some room for expansion was the Flavor Bombs page. While it is helpful to show all the condiments etc on one page with the recipe page number listed, and in the intro to each recipe there are some ideas on how else to use one of the Flavor Bombs I think this could have been fleshed out a bit more.For example, if you have leftover Fenugreek Marinade from the Curry Crusted Rutabaga Steaks it is described as keeping for two weeks and can be used as a base for curries or for marinating vegetables or different meats. Perhaps this could have been expanded to say mix with yoghurt and serve with grilled chicken, or to marinate chicken before grilling (I don’t know if that would be good, just riffing here) but if I am going to make double or triple of a condiment I would love a handful of simple ideas sketched out, to start me off on the journey of what else I could do with these Flavor Bombs beyond a line or two on the recipe page. But perhaps that is just nit picking. There are some ideas, I just want more, more, more!Gripes aside, the recipes themselves sound great and I will be cooking through this book, as I have done with all of Ottolenghis other books.Fans of Ottolenghis will want this book, so I am preaching to the converted here but it is always nice to read an extensive review before purchase even if you pretty much know you are going to purchase a book.Newbies, this is a pretty vegetable book with some very interesting recipes. You can't go wrong with this book or Plenty or Plenty More if you want to expand your vegetable repertoire. Or Ottolenghis other books if you also want interesting recipes that include meat and fish.I am happy to have this book and I will post an update when I cook from it (I pre-ordered it and just received it today)If this review was helpful to you, please click the helpful button. It always gives me a huge kick to see that my reviews were helpful to other like minded cooks. You might also be interested in my other cookbook and ingredient reviews and my ideas lists of kitchen tools etcHappy cooking!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2020
    For fans of Plenty and Plenty More, embrace Flavor, a book that Ottolenghi describes as Plenty Three.

    EDIT: I'm adding the following comment on cooking times a day after I posted my initial review. A reviewer below mentioned that in the whole book there are only 5 recipes that can be produced in under 30 mins. I disagree.
    Just in the first 12 recipes alone, there are 6 recipes that have a cooking time of 30 mins or less, and the prep for all of those recipes is speedy, with some ingredients being prepped during the cooking time. Yes, there are recipes that have multiple steps, and long cooking times, but this is not advertised as a recipe book specifically for those who need to get dinner on the table in 30 mins. There are plenty of other books out there that offer that. However, a quick scan shows a number of recipes that do meet that bill. For example, Noors Black Lime Tofu. The tofu is tossed in cornstarch and fried for 6 mins, while the tofu is frying throw the onions and garlic in a food processer. Fry that for 10 mins. Add the spices etc and cook for another minute. Add water, simmer for 6 mins. Add the tofu to the sauce and toss in the spinach, serve straight from the pan and dinner is done. The One Pan Orecchiette Puttanesca cooking time is just 14 mins if you boil the pasta while the sauce is reducing, then stir together.. Some of the more labor intensive recipes you might like to save for the weekend but there are weeknight healthy and delicious sounding recipes in this book.

    Flavor contains 100 recipes, which are almost all vegetarian sometimes vegan (45 recipes) that occasionally dabbles with fish sauce and parmesan, eggs and dairy. Yotam offers substitutions for various ingredients where possible such as light soy sauce for fish sauce.

    At the start of the book, Yotam lists the 20 ingredients that he considers essential to this book. He is not suggesting that you rush out and purchase them all right away (if you don’t already have them, you will likely want to stock most of them anyway, after trying these recipes) He describes these ingredients are being the essence of the book. These ingredients have been used to enhance, draw out and accentuate, they are umami rich, many of them are aged, and all have complex layers of flavor.
    These 20 ingredients are: Aleppo Chile (Gochugaru Korean hot pepper flakes are suggested as a substitute) Ancho chile, Anchovies packed in olive oil, black garlic, Persian dried black lime (he suggests that regular lime could be used, but to me, Persian lime has a scented, earthy tang that really is a different thing entirely from fresh lime) Cascabel Chiles (ancho as a substitute) Dried Whole Chipotle, Fish Sauce, Gochujang paste, Ground cardamom, Hibiscus flowers, jarred butter beans (canned are acceptable but jarred is preferred) Mango Pickle (not chutney) Masa Harina, Miso (preferably white not sweet white) red bell pepper flakes, rice vinegar, rose harissa (regular harissa can be substituted, I would like to add that culinary rose petals can also be crushed and added to harissa, and these can be found at World Market or online) Shaoxing Wine, Tamarind Paste.

    The book is divided into three main categories. Process, Pairing and Produce.

    Those categories are further divided into
    Process: Charring, Browning, Infusing, Aging
    Pairing: Sweetness, Fat, Acidity, Chile Heat
    Produce: Mushrooms, Alliums, Nuts and Seeds, Sugar: Fruit and Booze

    Finally we have Flavor Bombs which is a two page spread, showing all of the condiments that are in the book with the corresponding page number (see my photo) Butters, oils, salsas, mayonnaise, sauce, pickles, salts and spiced nuts.

    Each chapter begins with an essay on that subject which covers the subheadings. I love this, as I read cookbook like novels and here, each method and the equipment used, and a run down of some of the recipes and how they embody the method used, is described in detail with some cute, cartoon-like line drawings.

    Process for example, has 12 pages describing the processes and benefits to Charring, Browning, Infusing and Aging before we get to the recipes.

    Here are a selection of four recipes from each chapter (please see the corresponding photo)

    The Process Chapter
    Charring: Iceberg Wedges with Smoky Eggplant Cream
    Browning: Hasselback Beets with Lime Leaf Butter
    Infusing: Chilled Avocado Soup with Crunchy Garlic Oil
    Aging: The Ultimate Roasting Pan Ragu

    The Pairing Chapter
    Sweetness: Coconut and Tumeric Omelette Feast
    Fat: Stuffed Eggplant in Curry and Coconut Dal
    Acidity:Noors Black Lime Tofu
    Chile Heat:Saffron Tagliatelle with Ricotta and Crispy Chipotle Shallots

    The Produce Chapter
    Mushrooms:Broccoli with Mushroom Ketchup and Nori
    Alliums:Olive Oil Flatbreads with Three Garlic Butter
    Nuts and Seeds:Tofu Meatball Korma
    Sugar: Fruit and Booze Tapioca Fritters with Orange Syrup and Star Anise

    I have listed a range of recipes from main courses to side dishes.
    In the process chapter for example Charring has 7 recipes, Browning has 11 recipes, Infusing has 8 recipes and Aging has 9 recipes. In that chapter every recipe has a corresponding full page sized photo or even a two page photo spread, sometimes multiple photos on a two page spread. Additionally, there are a number of photos of Yotam and Ixta cooking.

    This brings me to a bit of a gripe. I know that the majority of cooks like a photo of every recipe, and many people find it hard to get enthusiastic about a recipe with no photo, but this seems to be overkill at the expense of the amount of recipes in this book.
    Plenty had 120 recipes to 288 pages
    Plenty More had 150 recipes to 352 pages
    Flavor has a mere 100 recipes to 317 pages.

    Admittedly, the chapter essays take up some of this, but I never thought I would say this about a cookbook, but the photos are overkill. While I enjoy the photos of Yotam and Ixta cooking, these could have been reduced in size to half or even quarter page photos.
    The two page spreads of a single recipe, for example the Hasselback Beets, could have been reduced in size to a single page to make way for another recipe.
    Noors Black Lime Tofu has no less than three full pages of photos. A photo of the tofu in the pan with the paste, then a photo of the spinach being added to the pan, then a photo of the spinach being stirred in, then a photo of the spinach almost completely stirred in and almost wilted, and then a photo of the finished dish with spinach wilted satisfactorily.
    This type of photo series could have been kept for recipes that were a bit more complex, such as the home made Saffron Tagliatelle. That recipe has no photo at all and could really have used a series for people who have never made pasta before. Instead the two page spread has been used for the Saffron Tagliatelle dish with Ricotta and Crispy Chipotle Shallots. And in that instance the photo series shows the already made Tagliatelle on a tray, then it being cooked in water, then it in the pan with the parmesan being added, then its in the pan with the parmesan added now, and then a full sized photo of it in the pan with the crispy shallots on top.

    There always has to be a gripe, but for me this is a pretty big one. If I was the editor I would have said one photo only per recipe unless a difficult technique really needs to be shown and add more recipes in place of all the rest. The book is pretty, but beyond a photo of each finished dish, the rest of the photos are just eye candy and most of the extra photos of the type I described above, are not what I would consider helpful or even particularly interesting. Personally, I would prefer more recipes.

    Another area which I think had some room for expansion was the Flavor Bombs page. While it is helpful to show all the condiments etc on one page with the recipe page number listed, and in the intro to each recipe there are some ideas on how else to use one of the Flavor Bombs I think this could have been fleshed out a bit more.
    For example, if you have leftover Fenugreek Marinade from the Curry Crusted Rutabaga Steaks it is described as keeping for two weeks and can be used as a base for curries or for marinating vegetables or different meats. Perhaps this could have been expanded to say mix with yoghurt and serve with grilled chicken, or to marinate chicken before grilling (I don’t know if that would be good, just riffing here) but if I am going to make double or triple of a condiment I would love a handful of simple ideas sketched out, to start me off on the journey of what else I could do with these Flavor Bombs beyond a line or two on the recipe page. But perhaps that is just nit picking. There are some ideas, I just want more, more, more!

    Gripes aside, the recipes themselves sound great and I will be cooking through this book, as I have done with all of Ottolenghis other books.
    Fans of Ottolenghis will want this book, so I am preaching to the converted here but it is always nice to read an extensive review before purchase even if you pretty much know you are going to purchase a book.
    Newbies, this is a pretty vegetable book with some very interesting recipes. You can't go wrong with this book or Plenty or Plenty More if you want to expand your vegetable repertoire. Or Ottolenghis other books if you also want interesting recipes that include meat and fish.
    I am happy to have this book and I will post an update when I cook from it (I pre-ordered it and just received it today)

    If this review was helpful to you, please click the helpful button. It always gives me a huge kick to see that my reviews were helpful to other like minded cooks. You might also be interested in my other cookbook and ingredient reviews and my ideas lists of kitchen tools etc
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    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Another great addition to the Ottolenghi line up!

    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2020
    For fans of Plenty and Plenty More, embrace Flavor, a book that Ottolenghi describes as Plenty Three.

    EDIT: I'm adding the following comment on cooking times a day after I posted my initial review. A reviewer below mentioned that in the whole book there are only 5 recipes that can be produced in under 30 mins. I disagree.
    Just in the first 12 recipes alone, there are 6 recipes that have a cooking time of 30 mins or less, and the prep for all of those recipes is speedy, with some ingredients being prepped during the cooking time. Yes, there are recipes that have multiple steps, and long cooking times, but this is not advertised as a recipe book specifically for those who need to get dinner on the table in 30 mins. There are plenty of other books out there that offer that. However, a quick scan shows a number of recipes that do meet that bill. For example, Noors Black Lime Tofu. The tofu is tossed in cornstarch and fried for 6 mins, while the tofu is frying throw the onions and garlic in a food processer. Fry that for 10 mins. Add the spices etc and cook for another minute. Add water, simmer for 6 mins. Add the tofu to the sauce and toss in the spinach, serve straight from the pan and dinner is done. The One Pan Orecchiette Puttanesca cooking time is just 14 mins if you boil the pasta while the sauce is reducing, then stir together.. Some of the more labor intensive recipes you might like to save for the weekend but there are weeknight healthy and delicious sounding recipes in this book.

    Flavor contains 100 recipes, which are almost all vegetarian sometimes vegan (45 recipes) that occasionally dabbles with fish sauce and parmesan, eggs and dairy. Yotam offers substitutions for various ingredients where possible such as light soy sauce for fish sauce.

    At the start of the book, Yotam lists the 20 ingredients that he considers essential to this book. He is not suggesting that you rush out and purchase them all right away (if you don’t already have them, you will likely want to stock most of them anyway, after trying these recipes) He describes these ingredients are being the essence of the book. These ingredients have been used to enhance, draw out and accentuate, they are umami rich, many of them are aged, and all have complex layers of flavor.
    These 20 ingredients are: Aleppo Chile (Gochugaru Korean hot pepper flakes are suggested as a substitute) Ancho chile, Anchovies packed in olive oil, black garlic, Persian dried black lime (he suggests that regular lime could be used, but to me, Persian lime has a scented, earthy tang that really is a different thing entirely from fresh lime) Cascabel Chiles (ancho as a substitute) Dried Whole Chipotle, Fish Sauce, Gochujang paste, Ground cardamom, Hibiscus flowers, jarred butter beans (canned are acceptable but jarred is preferred) Mango Pickle (not chutney) Masa Harina, Miso (preferably white not sweet white) red bell pepper flakes, rice vinegar, rose harissa (regular harissa can be substituted, I would like to add that culinary rose petals can also be crushed and added to harissa, and these can be found at World Market or online) Shaoxing Wine, Tamarind Paste.

    The book is divided into three main categories. Process, Pairing and Produce.

    Those categories are further divided into
    Process: Charring, Browning, Infusing, Aging
    Pairing: Sweetness, Fat, Acidity, Chile Heat
    Produce: Mushrooms, Alliums, Nuts and Seeds, Sugar: Fruit and Booze

    Finally we have Flavor Bombs which is a two page spread, showing all of the condiments that are in the book with the corresponding page number (see my photo) Butters, oils, salsas, mayonnaise, sauce, pickles, salts and spiced nuts.

    Each chapter begins with an essay on that subject which covers the subheadings. I love this, as I read cookbook like novels and here, each method and the equipment used, and a run down of some of the recipes and how they embody the method used, is described in detail with some cute, cartoon-like line drawings.

    Process for example, has 12 pages describing the processes and benefits to Charring, Browning, Infusing and Aging before we get to the recipes.

    Here are a selection of four recipes from each chapter (please see the corresponding photo)

    The Process Chapter
    Charring: Iceberg Wedges with Smoky Eggplant Cream
    Browning: Hasselback Beets with Lime Leaf Butter
    Infusing: Chilled Avocado Soup with Crunchy Garlic Oil
    Aging: The Ultimate Roasting Pan Ragu

    The Pairing Chapter
    Sweetness: Coconut and Tumeric Omelette Feast
    Fat: Stuffed Eggplant in Curry and Coconut Dal
    Acidity:Noors Black Lime Tofu
    Chile Heat:Saffron Tagliatelle with Ricotta and Crispy Chipotle Shallots

    The Produce Chapter
    Mushrooms:Broccoli with Mushroom Ketchup and Nori
    Alliums:Olive Oil Flatbreads with Three Garlic Butter
    Nuts and Seeds:Tofu Meatball Korma
    Sugar: Fruit and Booze Tapioca Fritters with Orange Syrup and Star Anise

    I have listed a range of recipes from main courses to side dishes.
    In the process chapter for example Charring has 7 recipes, Browning has 11 recipes, Infusing has 8 recipes and Aging has 9 recipes. In that chapter every recipe has a corresponding full page sized photo or even a two page photo spread, sometimes multiple photos on a two page spread. Additionally, there are a number of photos of Yotam and Ixta cooking.

    This brings me to a bit of a gripe. I know that the majority of cooks like a photo of every recipe, and many people find it hard to get enthusiastic about a recipe with no photo, but this seems to be overkill at the expense of the amount of recipes in this book.
    Plenty had 120 recipes to 288 pages
    Plenty More had 150 recipes to 352 pages
    Flavor has a mere 100 recipes to 317 pages.

    Admittedly, the chapter essays take up some of this, but I never thought I would say this about a cookbook, but the photos are overkill. While I enjoy the photos of Yotam and Ixta cooking, these could have been reduced in size to half or even quarter page photos.
    The two page spreads of a single recipe, for example the Hasselback Beets, could have been reduced in size to a single page to make way for another recipe.
    Noors Black Lime Tofu has no less than three full pages of photos. A photo of the tofu in the pan with the paste, then a photo of the spinach being added to the pan, then a photo of the spinach being stirred in, then a photo of the spinach almost completely stirred in and almost wilted, and then a photo of the finished dish with spinach wilted satisfactorily.
    This type of photo series could have been kept for recipes that were a bit more complex, such as the home made Saffron Tagliatelle. That recipe has no photo at all and could really have used a series for people who have never made pasta before. Instead the two page spread has been used for the Saffron Tagliatelle dish with Ricotta and Crispy Chipotle Shallots. And in that instance the photo series shows the already made Tagliatelle on a tray, then it being cooked in water, then it in the pan with the parmesan being added, then its in the pan with the parmesan added now, and then a full sized photo of it in the pan with the crispy shallots on top.

    There always has to be a gripe, but for me this is a pretty big one. If I was the editor I would have said one photo only per recipe unless a difficult technique really needs to be shown and add more recipes in place of all the rest. The book is pretty, but beyond a photo of each finished dish, the rest of the photos are just eye candy and most of the extra photos of the type I described above, are not what I would consider helpful or even particularly interesting. Personally, I would prefer more recipes.

    Another area which I think had some room for expansion was the Flavor Bombs page. While it is helpful to show all the condiments etc on one page with the recipe page number listed, and in the intro to each recipe there are some ideas on how else to use one of the Flavor Bombs I think this could have been fleshed out a bit more.
    For example, if you have leftover Fenugreek Marinade from the Curry Crusted Rutabaga Steaks it is described as keeping for two weeks and can be used as a base for curries or for marinating vegetables or different meats. Perhaps this could have been expanded to say mix with yoghurt and serve with grilled chicken, or to marinate chicken before grilling (I don’t know if that would be good, just riffing here) but if I am going to make double or triple of a condiment I would love a handful of simple ideas sketched out, to start me off on the journey of what else I could do with these Flavor Bombs beyond a line or two on the recipe page. But perhaps that is just nit picking. There are some ideas, I just want more, more, more!

    Gripes aside, the recipes themselves sound great and I will be cooking through this book, as I have done with all of Ottolenghis other books.
    Fans of Ottolenghis will want this book, so I am preaching to the converted here but it is always nice to read an extensive review before purchase even if you pretty much know you are going to purchase a book.
    Newbies, this is a pretty vegetable book with some very interesting recipes. You can't go wrong with this book or Plenty or Plenty More if you want to expand your vegetable repertoire. Or Ottolenghis other books if you also want interesting recipes that include meat and fish.
    I am happy to have this book and I will post an update when I cook from it (I pre-ordered it and just received it today)

    If this review was helpful to you, please click the helpful button. It always gives me a huge kick to see that my reviews were helpful to other like minded cooks. You might also be interested in my other cookbook and ingredient reviews and my ideas lists of kitchen tools etc
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2020
    I first discovered Ottolenghi through the cookbook Plenty, the first in his series of plant-based cooking. At the time I was a pretty inexperienced home cook trying to adopt a more plant-based diet through recipes with exciting flavor profiles that motivated me to eat better. His cookbooks Plenty and Plenty More has helped me accomplish those goals. Flavor is the third book in his series of plant-based cookbooks, and true to form, provides a number of drool-worthy recipes likely to join my growing rotation of Ottolenghi-inspired favorites.

    This cookbook is organized a bit differently from the others, with recipes focused on "process" (such as charring, browning, infusing, and aging); "pairing" (combining flavors with sweetness, fat, acidity and chile heat), and produce (with a focus on mushrooms, alliums, nuts and seeds, and sugar). I especially appreciate the chapter toward the end with meal suggestions and feasts, which provides lists of recipes that home cooks like me can prepare in 30 minutes or an hour (on my list to try include cardamom tofu with lime and greens, the ultimate roasting pan ragu, and sweet potato in tomato, lime, and cardamom sauce), as well as recipes that are relatively low effort to pull off (such as portobello steaks with butter bean mash and sweet and sour sprouts with chestnuts and grapes). Then there's a listing of suggestions for feasts, with three-course menus with some of the more involved recipes; high on my list to try when I am feeling ambitious is the korma feast, with tofu meatball korma, berbere ratatouille, and flatbreads).

    One of the things I most appreciate about Ottolenghi's books is that they have introduced me to exciting ingredients that have helped me punch up my home cooking. This cookbook uses several of his perennial favorite ingredients like rose harissa (which has become of one of my condiments of choice), black lime, and Aleppo chile flakes. This cookbook also features several chiles popular in Mexican cuisine (ancho, cascabel, and chipotle) as well as Asian ingredients such as gochujang chile paste, shaoxing wine, and mango pickle. For home cooks like me who want to keep it interesting, such ingredients are fun to discover and experience.

    Finally, I need to give the authors major props for the thoughtfulness and care that went into this cookbook. For example, the introductory note to the recipe for "The Ultimate Roasting-Pan Ragu" describes their process for developing the recipe: "In our mission to create the best meatless ragu, enough versions were made to sink a large ship." It reminds me of a note of a recipe in one of Ottolenghi's other books that has stuck with me: that he is always tinkering with recipes to keep things fresh and exciting, and to elevate them to higher levels of excellence. No wonder Ottolenghi can be so prolific while continuing to top his game. This book reflects that spirit, and I am grateful for how his books continue to inspire and challenge me to cook plant-centric meals.
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    La cocina de Y Ottolenghi es fabulosa. Dus recetas son exactas. Es un autor muy honesto
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  • Doris
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hervorragend, excellent
    Reviewed in Germany on February 24, 2023
    Hervorragende Rezepte, ausgefallene Kombinationen und viele neue Anregungen. Allerdings nichts für Anfänger. Man sollte (wie bei anderen Kochbüchern auch) in der Lage sein, die Rezepte an seinen eigenen Geschmack anzupassen.
    Die Kritik, dass ausgefallene Zutaten verwendet werden, verstehe ich nicht. Wer nur Senf, Salz und Pfeffer verwenden möchte, sollte Oma Emmie's Kochbuch für deutsche Küche kaufen! Alle Zutaten - wenn nicht schon vorhanden - sind in DE zu bekommen (manche online).
    Mein einziger Kritikpunkt ist, dass sehr wenig frische, knackige Rezepte zu finden sind. Trotzdem volle Punktzahl.

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    As I bought the English version, here are my comments in English:

    Excellent recipes, unusual combinations and many new suggestions. However, nothing for beginners. You should (as with other cookbooks) be able to adjust the recipes to your own taste.
    I don't understand the criticism that unusual ingredients are used. If you only want to use mustard, salt and pepper, you should buy Granny Emmie's cookbook for German cuisine! If not already in stock, all ingredients are available in Germany (some online).
    My only criticism is that there are very few fresh crisp recipes to be found. Still, five points.