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We tested Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook and here’s our honest review

From italian pasta to moroccan tagines, the tv chef has taken his 5 ingredients series across the mediterranean. lauren taylor takes it for a spin, article bookmarked.

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A fter the huge success of Jamie Oliver ’s 2017 cookbook , 5 Ingredients , it was only a matter of time before the TV chef published another iteration. This time taking influence far and wide across the Mediterranean – from Italian pasta to Moroccan tagines.

According to wife Jools, the original 5 Ingredients is “the book all the parents at school talk about”, so Oliver felt compelled, he says in his newest offering.

The 48-year-old’s latest venture in a very long time of accessible cookbooks (22 to be exact) – and accompanying Channel 4 show Jamie Cooks The Mediterranean – takes us from Southern Europe to the shores of the Middle East to Northern Africa.

Over the years ( The Naked Chef first graced our TV screens in 1999), it’s fair to say Oliver, with his jovial, no-nonsense, man-of-the-people image, has made home cooking doable for many people who otherwise wouldn’t cook and given others a go-to stash of reliable recipes when you don’t have the time or inclination for complicated. One thing’s usually a given though – the dishes will be tasty.

Luckily, I’m Oliver’s target market for this particular “solution-based” book as he so calls it; as a working mum, I’m time-poor, my skills in the kitchen are fairly basic – but I’m a foodie and will always be looking for flavour-packed dishes.

So, what can you expect from 5 Ingredients Mediterranean?

The concept – of just a handful of ingredients needed for each dish – is, at its core, uncomplicated and easy to digest. For beginner cooks, long lists of ingredients can be intimidating, not to mention costly, and even seasoned home cooks need ease sometimes, too.

Using just five (helpfully individually pictured on each page) requires some clever additions to pack in flavour, though – a bag of mixed frozen veg counts as one, for example, or shop-bought tzatziki. So purists might not approve, but the time-poor among us will really appreciate the simplicity and corner-cutting.

As with all his recent books, you’ll need a few very basic pantry ingredients like olive oil and red wine vinegar, and not one of the recipes is longer than half a page – some even just one paragraph.

Chapters are pretty standard (but practical) covering salads, soups and sarnies, pasta, veg, pies and parcels, seafood, fish, chicken and duck, meat, and finally, sweet things. You’ll find Spanish influence in grilled asparagus with salmorejo (usually a type of soup) sauce, pata negra and paprika, a French Marseilles fish soup with fennel, Greek pork and prune stew and Italian pistachio panna cotta, inspired by Arabic flavours found in Sicilian cuisine.

Oliver then crosses the Med for the likes of Tunisian kafteji (chopped-veg street food) and Moroccan-inspired squash tagine with chickpeas, ras el hanout, olives and dates; before heading east for Turkish flatbreads called pides are packed with colourful veg, mint, pistachio and feta and Palestinian-style spiced chicken generously covers dark, sticky onions, pine nuts and flatbreads (which are shop-bought, no judgment from us).

What are the recipes like to cook?

Well, I start simple for a weekday dinner and attempt the baked tomato soup. Reminiscent of Italian panzanellas, this dish couldn’t have been simpler to put together (although not super-quick) is nutritious, comforting and very tasty, with the added bonus of cheap ingredients.

Another night I rustle up Oliver’s roasted squash lasagne, with chestnuts, taleggio and crispy sage, for a family dinner – the autumnal ingredient combination sounds delicious, but I do have trouble getting hold of one of the five. Taleggio, a mild Italian semisoft, wash-rind cow’s milk cheese, wasn’t in a large supermarket or cheesemonger – who suggested a French Mont des Cats instead.

There’s no better way to get flavour out of a butternut squash than to roast it, and aside from the time this takes, it’s an easy – and fun – dish to put together, scooping out the roasted flesh and spreading across fresh lasagne sheets before crumbling over fried chestnuts and cheese and assembling. The result isn’t as “oozy” as Oliver’s picture suggests, but my substitute cheese could be to blame, nonetheless everyone agrees it’s very tasty – while feeling lighter than a traditional lasagne.

One of the easiest recipes in the book has to be the charred okra salad. All you have to do is dry fry the okra and tomatoes and assemble on top of tahini-laden yoghurt and season with red wine vinegar and dukkah (which I made from dry-frying ground cumin, coriander, sesame seeds, fennel seeds and almonds instead of buying). It’s truly idiot-proof.

The creaminess of the yoghurt-tahini sauce marries perfectly with the sweet pops of tomato and vibrant okra, and the overall fanciness of the dish made it seem like I spent a lot more time on it than I actually did. Although delicious, it was slightly one note – it might work better as a side dish in a symphony of Mediterranean small plates, rather than the star of the show itself.

Cooking multiple dishes for entertaining feels very doable when each recipe only calls for five ingredients, and I try this tactic for a Sunday lunch. The lemon tzatziki (whole) chicken marinates for two hours in the Greek cucumber yoghurt dip before it cooks, and alongside the roasted onions and jammy lemons, it is delicious, but the consensus is we can’t really taste the tzatziki – although the dip may have contributed to general juiciness of the meat.

Desserts can be a bit daunting, but Oliver’s minimal-ingredient recipes are a great place to start. With bitter dark chocolate and just a hint of espresso in a very rich moose, “Jools’ chocolate dream” couldn’t be easier to make – and the individual pots are a hit among my guests.

If you’ve got more mouths to feed, the baked cheesecake is worth a go. Aside from the masses of cream cheese you need to buy, it’s easily created from what’s probably already sitting in your kitchen cupboards, like icing sugar and eggs. Perhaps I’m not a very skilled baker, but the prep takes much longer than the 10 minutes Oliver stipulates. You need to plan four hours to chill (I didn’t and we ate it at 11pm), but it’s easy, even total beginners can create quite an impressive dessert centrepiece.

The texture is perfect, creamy, but firm enough to hold together and slightly golden on top. It needs something to balance out the richness – Oliver suggests serving with fresh fruit, but I make a sharp raspberry coulis which works perfectly. In theory it serves 12, but I think we’ll be tucking into this cake for weeks.

Feta filo turnovers with fresh marjoram, runny honey and pistachio sprinkle

“When I was a teenager visiting Cyprus on holiday, I was wowed by the recipes that would cook feta rather than just serve it in salads raw,” Oliver writes.

“For me, this is so incredibly simple, satisfying and impressive.”

Total time : 20 minutes

Ingredients :

4 sheets of filo pastry

200g feta cheese

½ a bunch of marjoram (10g)

25g shelled unsalted pistachios

Runny honey, to serve

1. Lay a sheet of filo on a damp tea towel and brush lightly with olive oil.

2. Crumble a quarter of the feta across one side of the pastry, leaving a three-centimetre gap around the edges, and pick over a quarter of the marjoram leaves.

3. Carefully fold over the filo, press the edges to seal, then fold in half again, pressing down gently to secure. Brush lightly with olive oil.

4. Place a large non-stick frying pan on a medium heat with a splash of olive oil, add the filo parcel and cook for two minutes on each side, or until golden and crisp, then transfer to a serving plate.

5. Meanwhile, bash or roughly chop the pistachios. Drizzle the parcel with honey and scatter over a quarter of the pistachios. Repeat with the rest of the ingredients, serving each parcel as soon as it’s ready.

Tunisian prawn spaghetti, fragrant rose harissa, zingy lemon and fresh parsley

“Tunisians are one of the biggest pasta eaters on the planet and they have a whole load of their own pasta shapes and techniques,” Oliver says.

“Harissa really amplifies the sweetness of the prawns here – delicious!”

Total time : 22 minutes

150g dried spaghetti

8 large raw shell-on king prawns

2 tsp rose harissa

½ a bunch of flat-leaf parsley (15g)

1. Cook the pasta in a pan of boiling salted water according to the packet instructions.

2. Meanwhile, peel the prawns, removing and reserving the heads and leaving the tails on. I like to run a small sharp knife down the back of each, discarding the vein, so they butterfly when they cook. Toss the prawns with the harissa and leave to briefly marinate.

3. Place the prawn heads in a large frying pan on a medium heat with one tablespoon of olive oil and fry until golden all over, stirring regularly and gently squashing to extract amazing flavour.

4. Roughly chop and reserve the top leafy half of the parsley, then finely slice the stalks and add them to the pan with a pinch of sea salt and black pepper. Fry for one minute, then add the marinated prawns and cook for one minute on each side.

5. Using tongs, drag the pasta into the pan, squeeze in half the lemon juice, throw in the parsley leaves, then toss together, loosening with a splash of starchy cooking water, if needed. To serve, pick out and discard the crispy prawn heads and cut the remaining lemon half into wedges for squeezing over.

Jools’ chocolate dreams

“Chocolate and coffee are celebrated all around the Med and they’re also my wife’s two favourite indulgent pleasures, so why wouldn’t I create possibly one of the most decadent desserts on earth?” says Oliver.

Total time : 40 minutes, plus cooling

150g dark chocolate (70%)

125g unsalted butter

50ml good espresso

2 large eggs

125g golden caster sugar

1. Preheat the oven to 120C/250F/gas ½.

2. Snap the chocolate into a heatproof bowl, add the butter, espresso and a good pinch of sea salt, and place over a pan of gently simmering water to melt very slowly until smooth, stirring regularly.

3. Meanwhile, whisk the eggs and sugar together until pale and doubled in size, then carefully fold in the melted chocolate mixture.

4. Boil the kettle. Divide the mixture between six coffee cups or ramekins and put them into a roasting tray. Place the tray in the oven, then carefully pour in enough boiling kettle water to come halfway up the side of the cups.

5. Bake for exactly 20 minutes, then carefully remove from the oven and leave to cool in the water for two hours.

6. To serve, I sometimes shave over some extra chocolate, or add fresh fruit like cherries, blood oranges or wild strawberries, with a dollop of yoghurt or crème fraîche.

‘5 Ingredients Mediterranean’ by Jamie Oliver (Penguin Michael Joseph © Jamie Oliver Enterprises Limited, £28)

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Why You Need Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients Mediterranean Cookbook

Renowned chef Jamie Oliver has once again delighted food enthusiasts with his latest culinary creation, “5 Ingredients Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food.” Let’s take a closer look at this exciting cookbook, inspired by Jamie’s travels and lifelong passion for delicious, uncomplicated cuisine. Additionally, we’ll explore Jamie Oliver’s culinary journey and touch upon some of his other notable cookbooks.

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Embarking on a Mediterranean Culinary Journey

“5 Ingredients Mediterranean” is not just a cookbook; it’s a voyage through the vibrant and diverse flavors of the Mediterranean. With over 125 easy-to-follow recipes, Jamie Oliver aims to make everyday cooking both thrilling and straightforward.

Whether you’re a seasoned chef or a novice in the kitchen, these recipes empower you to create mouthwatering dishes without the need for a long list of ingredients or complicated culinary techniques.

Diverse and Mouthwatering Creations

The variety within the pages of this cookbook is truly remarkable. From refreshing salads and hearty soups to flavorful pasta, delectable seafood, succulent chicken, and indulgent desserts – there’s a tantalizing option for every palate and occasion.

Picture yourself savoring dishes like tender asparagus carbonara, epic quick salt cod, island salad, and herby steak with crispy potatoes. Each recipe is crafted to evoke the sunny vibes of the Mediterranean.

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What makes “ 5 Ingredients Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food ” special is the personal touch of Chef Jamie Oliver. With a genuine passion for both cooking and the Mediterranean region, Jamie has infused every dish in this cookbook with the essence of his culinary experiences. His dedication to creating accessible yet extraordinary meals shines through, turning each recipe into a delightful adventure.

Exploring Jamie Oliver’s Culinary Legacy

Chef Jamie Oliver is one of the bestselling cookbook authors of all time. In addition to “5 Ingredients Mediterranean,” Jamie Oliver has left his own mark on the culinary world with several other noteworthy cookbooks.

His earlier works, such as “ One: Simple One-Pan Wonders ” and “ 7 Ways” Easy Ideas for Every Day of the Week ” showcase his commitment to simplicity, flavor, and accessibility in the kitchen.

Another of his previous cookbooks, “ 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food ,” laid the foundation for his latest masterpiece, “5 Ingredients Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food.”

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In this earlier work, Jamie introduced a revolutionary concept: crafting delicious meals with only five key ingredients. It’s consistently a best seller on Amazon in the Budget Cooking category .

The cookbook aimed to simplify cooking without compromising on flavor. This made it an instant hit among busy individuals and cooking enthusiasts alike. Each recipe was a testament to Jamie’s dedication to creating accessible yet impressive dishes, perfectly aligned with the fast-paced modern lifestyle.

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Jamie Oliver 5 Ingredients Cookbook Review

5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food

In this cookbook review , we bring you another book from one of our favorite chefs. Jamie Oliver , one of the bestselling cookbook authors of all time, is back with a bang. Jamie Oliver 5 Ingredients Cookbook focus on incredible combinations of just five ingredients. It’s all about making the journey to good food very, very simple. Every recipe uses just five key ingredients, ensuring you can get a meal together fast, whether it’s finished and on the table in a flash. It’s about spending a little time to deliver a lot of flavors.

Recipes that will be ready in 30 minutes or less and some of them will only take you 10 minutes, leaving all the work to the stove or oven. With this book, Jamie wants everyone to enjoy the pleasure of cooking. The recipes can’t be easier, and they are suitable for any day of the week or special occasions. There is everything from that quick dinner on a weeknight to that weekend banquet with friends.

Brilliant Combinations

The concept of this cookbook is very simple, but the key to success resides in the structure, intelligent planning, and spirit in which this book was made. With over 130 recipes, and chapters on Chicken, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Fish, Eggs, Veg, Salads, Pasta, Rice & Noodles, and Sweet Things, there’s plenty of quick and easy recipes inspiration to choose from.

There’s a great mix of recipes from all corners of the globe, from comforting British classics to Asian noodles. There’s lots of choice between different meats, rice, noodles, eggs, and vegetables. And of course, we can’t forget the whole chapter on sweet treats! It is amazing how much you can do with just 5 ingredients!

Another interesting fact about this book, that is now normal in any Jamie cookbook , is the nutritional info on each page. In our opinion, this is a little touch that combines perfectly with the mindset of this book.

One Of Jamie’s Best Cookbooks

With over 300 pages and 130 recipes, this is by far one of the best cookbooks from Jamie . The book is super “clean” and easy to follow with the perfect amount of information. Another thing that we love is this book is the photographies! Normally they are Ok, but in this book, they are incredible.

If you pay attention we realize that this book was well thought out. You can easily understand that all the details on this book have one objective in mind “spend a little time to deliver a lot of flavors”. If you like Jamie Oliver or if you are looking for a simple cookbook with great recipes this is the book you are looking for.

If you are looking for a new cookbook with simple recipes with great flavor, 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food, is the book you are looking for.

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Jamie Oliver is a global phenomenon in food and campaigning. During a 20-year television and publishing career he has inspired millions of people to enjoy cooking from scratch and eating fresh, delicious food. Through his organization, Jamie is leading the charge on a global food revolution, aiming to reduce childhood obesity and improve everyone's health and happiness through food.

Jamie started cooking at his parents' pub, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, at the age of eight. After leaving school he began a career as a chef that took him to the River Café, where he was famously spotted by a television production company and the Naked Chef was born.

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Customers find the recipes in the book easy to follow. They appreciate the simple concept of only five ingredients to make a quick and easy meal. Readers also describe the book as logically presented, colorful, and packed with great recipes.

"...The instructions are clear, the method is simple and the dishes look really wonderful...." Read more

"Healthy recipes which are easy to follow and simple to prepare with readily available ingredients. Excellent value too." Read more

"...But, it’s only the cover!Inside, it is a logically presented , colourful volume packed with, IMO, generally achievable recipes, if a Med...." Read more

"...Great variety of recipes, very clear , very appetising." Read more

Customers find the ingredients in the book great and affordable. They also say the recipes look wonderful and the book layout is lovely.

"...The instructions are clear, the method is simple and the dishes look really wonderful ...." Read more

"Healthy recipes which are easy to follow and simple to prepare with readily available ingredients . Excellent value too." Read more

"...Recipes laid out in simple easy format. I love the 5 pictures of the ingredients needed . Really is a simple to follow recipe book...." Read more

"...There's not much here for vegetarians.The book layout is lovely . One recipe per page, each with a photo...." Read more

Customers find the book's recipes easy to cook and inexpensive to make. They also say the ingredients are generally affordable and easy to buy in any supermarket.

"... Excellent value too." Read more

"Great recipes. Good price " Read more

"...Bright text, lots of white space. The ingredients are generally affordable and easy to buy in any supermarket - perhaps with the exception of squid...." Read more

"Paid a bargain price for a good quality cookbook." Read more

Customers find the recipes in the book quick and easy. They say it's time-saving for busy people and ideal for quick, easy meals.

"Good range of recipes and convenient as do not need loads of ingredients" Read more

"I like the fact that it is fast and furious . Lots of variety for different cuisines and not too many fancy ingredients...." Read more

"...Jamie users frozen veg this is perfectly acceptable and time saving for busy people ...." Read more

"Love this. Easy to follow. Quick to make . Doesn’t cost much. Delicious" Read more

Customers find the book full of promise and practicality. They say it's a great addition to the series and to their cook book library.

"...I am not disappointed with this Jamie Oliver book - a great addition to the series and to my cook book library." Read more

"...If you’re an expert it’s a good base to get some inspiration and you can then remix it to your liking...." Read more

"Like all Jamies books, great ideas , but you also need more than 5 ingredients, which are outside the normal cupboard items...." Read more

"... Good inspiration , I tweaked a few recipies." Read more

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