Ottolenghi simple (2018)

The 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 project. That tagging is the real gift, because it teaches you which dishes to save for Saturday and which to cook tonight. The "simple" label is loose in places and a few dishes still run to a long ingredient list, but it remains the easiest way into this bright, herb-and-yogurt style of cooking, and the one most likely to get used rather than admired.