NOPI: The Cookbook: Yotam Ottolenghi

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Nopi is definitely a sophisticated cookbook but no matter where your level of culinary skill lies, there are recipes here to suit so if you are looking for a new cookery book which is overflowing with flavour-packed recipes to challenge as well as inspire then NOPI: The Cookbook is most certainly for you. This collection of recipes will definitely delight NOPI’s fervent fans with its selection of authentic dishes, including NOPI favourites such as Burrata with blood orange, coriander seeds and lavender oil, the much-adored Beef brisket croquettes, the up-to-now secret Corn bread recipe and the infamous Baked blue cheese cake, the photo of which looks so delicious oozing with cheesy goodness that it just makes you want to dive right in with a massive chunk of crusty bread. There are dishes that long-time Ottolenghi fans will be familiar with – a starter of aubergine with black garlic, for example, or the roasted squash with sweet tomatoes – as well as many dishes which will stretch the home cook as they produce some of the restaurant’s signature dishes at home, such as Beef brisket croquettes or Persian love rice. Jerusalem is the top-selling cookbook in the country, subverting the conventional wisdom that you need to have a TV show to have a bestselling cookbook.

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Cocktails make a great addition and you can even see the Middle Eastern/Asian/Mediterranean flavours of NOPI coming through here in the Sumac martini and Spiced pumpkin cocktails.On her recent travels around South America she could often be found in the bustling food markets trying the local specialities and finding inspiration for new recipes. Our Sohorestaurant has some of the Ottolenghi trademarks - most notably, a menu that celebrates bold flavours.

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But for now he's thriving at NOPI, enjoying the food, creativity, and the incredible team he's working with. Yotam has been a weekly columnist for the Saturday Guardian for over thirteen years and is a regular contributor to the New York Times.It’s written with long-time collaborator and NOPI head chef Ramael Scully, who brings his distinctive Asian twist to the Ottolenghi kitchen. London-based NOPI is Yotam Ottolenghi’s flagship restaurant which serves ‘small plates’ of food inspired by the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia. As part of the editorial team at Great British Chefs, she pursues her dual loves of food and writing. NOPI: The Cookbook is Yotam Ottolenghi's latest book written in collaboration with NOPI head chef Ramael Scully.

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It is refined and sumptuous to look at with stunning photography and the sophisticated design reflects the style of cooking which is relatively advanced. NOPI: The Cookbook is the latest edition in Ottolenghi’s line of successful cookery books and has been written in collaboration with head chef Ramael Scully. Whether you’re a regular at the NOPI restaurant and want to know the secret to your favourite dish or are an Ottolenghi fan who wants to try out restaurant-style cooking, this is a collection of recipes which will inspire, challenge and delight. These little snippets give the recipes a fantastic personal touch and provide a unique insight into their creation. I also love how Ottolenghi and Scully have championed the lesser known cuts of pork neck, onglet steak and lamb sweetbreads, cuts which are often left out of more mainstream cookery books.As Ottolenghi states: ‘This is a restaurant cookbook: it features restaurant food’ – but that’s not a bad thing.

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Ramael Scully – Scully - was born in 1979 in Malaysia to a mother of Chinese and Indian heritage and a father with Malay and Irish blood. There are also ideas for ways in which to play around with the ingredients if you are feeling particularly inspired. Starting as a KP at Ottolenghi Belgravia, he quickly became a Commis Chef and over the following years worked in most of our delis, becoming head chef at Notting Hill in 2015. Yotam Ottolenghi’s second cookbook has recipes for dishes largely absent from the American kitchen–a fact that almost never crosses your mind when you flip through it hungry.

Scully’s distinct culinary baggage – the Malaysian flavours of his childhood, his training in the European tradition, his insatiable appetite for Asian ingredients – has been the creative force behind much of what is on the NOPI menu. Good book for:Whether you’re a regular at the NOPI restaurant and want to know the secret to your favourite dish or are an Ottolenghi fan who wants to try out restaurant-style cooking, this is a collection of recipes which will inspire, challenge and delight. The first thing you notice about the book is the strikingly minimal, gilded cover which reflects the simple yet elegant interior of the restaurant. With his 2012 cookbook Jerusalem, London restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi [has] created a sensation by sharing his unexpected and highly personal take on Mediterranean cooking.