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  1. 1Ottolenghi simple (2018)Ottolenghi simple (2018) 8.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2018The book that made Ottolenghi's flavors fit a weeknight. Each of the 130 recipes is tagged against the SIMPLE letters: short on time, 10 ingredients or fewer, make ahead, pantry, lazy, and easier than you think. You can flip straight to the S or the P and know dinner will not turn into a…0
  2. 2Persiana Easy (2025)Persiana Easy (2025)Published Aug 14, 2025If the brief is "Persian flavors, minimum fuss," this is the most direct answer on the shelf. Ghayour's 2025 book sets out to make every recipe as easy as possible, and it shows: midweek meals and sheet-pan dishes lead the way, and every recipe comes with a photo, so you know what you are aiming…0
  3. 3Persiana Everyday (2022)Persiana Everyday (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022The title is the promise, and the book keeps it. More than 100 recipes built for everyday eating, sorted around how much effort you have left: no-cook, quick-prep, quick-cook and one-pot. That structure is what makes it useful on a weeknight, because you choose by energy level rather than by…0
  4. 4Persiana (2014)Persiana (2014) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2014The 2014 book that started Ghayour's run. Its more than 100 recipes are modern, accessible takes on food from around the southern and eastern Mediterranean rather than strict Persian tradition: lamb and sour cherry meatballs, a chicken, preserved lemon and olive tagine, Persian flatbread. It suits…0
  5. 5Meliz's Kitchen (2022)Meliz's Kitchen (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Turkish-Cypriot home cooking from a self-taught cook, and it reads like it: easy-to-follow recipes meant for family meals rather than dinner parties. The subtitle, Simple Turkish-Cypriot Comfort Food and Fresh Family Feasts, is an accurate summary of what you get. This is the book for the weeks…0
  6. 6Eat, Habibi, Eat! (2021)Eat, Habibi, Eat! (2021)Published Jan 1, 2021Egyptian food is underserved on most shelves, and this book fixes that with an eye on the grocery store. Massoud, a Toronto-based chef and TV host, mixes street food and casual everyday staples with his own updates on classics, and he says outright that most of the ingredients can be found at a…0
  7. 7Sababa (2019)Sababa (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019Bright, market-driven Israeli cooking from Adeena Sussman's Tel Aviv kitchen, built largely on what she finds at the Carmel Market near her home. The strength for a home cook is the spice blends and condiments: make a jar of hazelnut dukkah or turmeric-rich hawaij on Sunday and a plain piece of…0
  8. 8Falastin (2020)Falastin (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley's Palestinian cookbook is the best balance on this list between real tradition and real weeknights. Its more than 110 recipes are reworked for a modern home kitchen, and the book frames them as everyday meals rather than feast-day projects. That makes it the natural…0
  9. 9Boustany (2025)Boustany (2025)Published Jan 1, 2025Sami Tamimi's first solo book, published in 2025, is entirely vegetarian, and that is exactly why it earns a weeknight slot. Boustany means "my garden," and the more than 100 recipes treat vegetables as the main event, with chapters running from breakfast and sharing plates to breads, sweets and…0
  10. 10Zaitoun (2018)Zaitoun (2018) 4.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2018Yasmin Khan gathered these recipes in Palestinian kitchens across the West Bank, Gaza and Israel, and the book keeps that home-cook scale. More than 80 recipes sit alongside travel writing, so it reads well too, but the food is what brings you back. Musakhan is the one to start with: chicken…0