Notes about Recipes in this book

• Ginger-curry grilled chicken kebabs

  • Maefleur on January 21, 2024

    I marinated 1 hour and these were very flavourful, tender, and delicious. The cayenne provides a nice amount of spice which we enjoyed.

• Shrimp in poblano chili and cilantro sauce

  • kari500 on August 18, 2025

    Delicious. No white onion so used a sweet one. Served over rice with avocado slices on the side. This sauce would be fantastic with leftover rotisserie chicken in tacos.

• Baharat

  • Shewi128 on July 25, 2022

    I don't have any prior experience with this spice mix, but it was easy to put together for the falafel recipe.

• Falafel

  • Shewi128 on July 25, 2022

    This was my first homemade falafel, and they turned out great. One annoying thing is that the recipe was for 12 oz dried chickpeas, and not a full 16oz/1lb, so I adjusted the recipe to just use the full pound of chickpeas. I didn't read the instructions fully, so I did make the dough/batter in the morning, and let it refrigerate for ~8 hours instead of the recommended 1-3 hours. I don't know if it made the balls more mushy, but we loved them regardless. I would make this again!

  • Silver.bird22 on March 29, 2026

    I'm glad I used the baharat recipe that came with (divide by 8 to get 1 tablespoon). I usually use my premixed ras el hanout for falafel but this version was lovely, although I would lower the salt next time. These are very light and a tad crumbly, more so than Ottolenghi's usual recipe.

• Tahini-yogurt sauce

  • Shewi128 on July 25, 2022

    I halved the recipe as the full amount seemed like a lot. I liked this method of mixing the tahini with boiling water, so I'll use this technique again for other recipes.

• Caribbean-style rice with pigeon peas

  • anya_sf on August 08, 2022

    This was good and relatively quick and easy to make. The rice (store brand long-grain) was a teeny bit mushy; next time I'd try basmati. I stirred in 6 oz wilted baby spinach at the end, and 3 people had it as a main course topped with avocado. With 1 deseeded habanero, it was barely spicy.

• Pasta with pesto rosso

  • Logan92995 on May 18, 2023

    I was going out of town for a few days, so I didn't want to make anything too extravagant or make a ton of leftovers, and stumbled upon this recipe in my Milk Street 2023 Cookbook (which has sadly not been indexed yet). This one really hit the spot in that regard. It was super easy to make (literally just cooking noodles and combining ingredients in a food processor), and came out tasting great. The pecorino sprinkled on top is an added bonus. Would possibly add a bit more salt to the pesto next time, however -- 1 tsp instead of 1/2.