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Posted by Nigella on the 4th February 2021
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I am enormously grateful to Zoe Adjonyoh. If you love food, it is such a gift to be introduced to a hitherto untasted realm of flavour, and - in the form of her pop-ups, this book, newly reissued, and her spice shop (to be found on zoesghanakitchen.co.uk) - she is the most ebullient of ambassadors. It’s impossible to read this book without excitedly making a list of the ingredients to seek out and, from the beginning of the book, with its guide to the spices, herbs, fruits, vegetables, pulses, grains and staple flavourings, to the end, with its bank of spice mixtures and sauces (the “cheat sheets” as Adjonyoh calls them) and list of UK stockists, this is an invaluable primer.
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Our cookbook of the week is Simply by Sabrina Ghayour. To try a recipe from the book, check out: Tahdig e makaroni, green chicken and maast-o-esfenaj (spinach and yogurt with walnuts).
Five books in, Sabrina Ghayour has perfected a reliable ease. But that’s not to say her recipes are predictable far from it. As her fans well know, even her most pared-back ingredient listings and instructions deliver on vigorous, often unexpected, flavours. Ghayour’s latest cookbook may be called
Simply, but it’s as effortlessly inviting as her previous work including her award-winning debut,
Persiana (Mitchell Beazley, 2014).
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Our cookbook of the week is Simply by Sabrina Ghayour. Over the next three days, we’ll feature more recipes from the book and an interview with the author.
To try another recipe from the book, check out: Green chicken and maast-o-esfenaj (spinach and yogurt with walnuts).
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With its crispy crust, tahdig e makaroni is “an absolute Persian classic,” says Sabrina Ghayour. The much-loved dish may have macaroni in its name, but it actually uses spaghetti. And although built on an Italian ingredient, it’s a thoroughly Persian creation.
One moment I was with a friend, admiring the dappled sunlight in London’s Hyde Park, the next my head was spinning, my knees had given way and I collapsed to the ground.
Lying on the floor in a public place, unable to get up unaided, was not only embarrassing but also incredibly nerve-racking. Nothing like that had ever happened to me before.
I called a taxi to take me home, where I climbed into bed, hoping a good night’s sleep would make me feel normal again.
But it didn’t. Over the next few months, I was paralysed with exhaustion. To the extent that from March 2014, I would go on to spend three years in bed.