Australia’s favourite home cook, Nagi Maehashi has just released her latest cookbook, Tonight.
Following on from her record-breaking first cookbook, Dinner, Nagi brings us Tonight with more than 150 brand-new foolproof, flavour-packed recipes.
It includes 800 variations on those recipes and 3000 possible combinations that match formulas (including the world-famous Charlie sauce) with different ingredients.
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Recipes include crave-worthy crowd-pleasers such as slow-baked Italian meatballs in a rich tomato sauce with bubbling melted cheese or fall-apart Asian chicken cooked in a sticky-sweet soy glaze.
Some dinners can be cooked in 20 minutes, and others can be made using only pantry staples.
And if you love to entertain, you’ll want turn to Sunday Suppers — the Vietnamese pulled pork is a festival of flavour, while the Sweets chapter delivers on the promise of maximum decadence.
This is a cookbook for every Australian kitchen, for every level of cooking ability, for every budget, for every set of taste buds, and for every single night of the week.
The cookbook is currently on sale on Amazon Australia for $29.
Amazon Australia shoppers have given the cookbook a five-star rating on the website.
“This is perfection in a cookbook,” said one.
“Absolutely fantastic,” added another.
And if you are looking at upskilling in the kitchen look no further than these other great cookbooks on the market now.
2. Donna Hay’s Too Easy, from $29
Australia’s most trusted and bestselling cookbook author Donna Hay has just released her latest cookbook, Too Easy.
It’s the cookbook everyone needs as it will not only make your life easier, but it is full of delicious, healthy food and shortcuts to make it.
You’ll find inspiring recipes that transform a few pantry staples into delicious meals within minutes.
Find all your favourite classics but with a twist, think one-pan undone lasagne, crunchy chipotle chicken traybake and harissa spiced beef flatbreads.
“Everyone wants dinner on the table, fresh ingredients, mixed simply that looks like a restaurant meal,” Donna tells Best Picks.
3. Mary Berry’s Foolproof Dinners, from $40.84
Britain’s best-loved cook brings together a lifetime of culinary knowledge to take the hassle out of evening meals.
Her latest book features 120 brand-new, effortless recipes.
Mary’s Foolproof Dinners features all the fuss-free recipes from the show, each beautifully photographed with helpful cooking tips and techniques.
It has everything from hearty one-pot wonders to sophisticated yet straightforward dinner party showstoppers and of course, many tempting traybakes and desserts.
Each recipe is meticulously crafted by Mary to make every evening a foolproof success.
4. Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, from $35.02
This New York Times Number #1 Bestseller features a collection of all new soul-satisfying dishes from America’s favourite home cook.
In Modern Comfort Food, Ina Garten shares 85 new recipes that will feed your deepest cravings.
Many of these dishes are inspired by childhood favorites-but with the volume turned way up, such as cheddar and chutney grilled cheese sandwiches (the perfect match for Ina’s creamy tomato bisque), smashed hamburgers with caramelised onions.
As well as the crispiest hash browns that are actually made in a waffle iron.
5. Rick Stein’s Simple Suppers, from $41.25
From bestselling cook and food writer Rick Stein, comes the Simple Suppers, a joyful collection of over 100 genuinely easy and delicious recipes paired with stories that celebrate the simple things in life.
It will be your new go-to cookbook and features an abundance of stylish, easy recipes for midweek, weekends and every eventuality in between.
Rick Stein’s passion for using good-quality local produce and his talent for creating delicious recipes in his books and restaurants have won him a host of awards, accolades and fans.
As well as presenting a number of television series, he has published many best-selling cookery books, including French Odyssey, Coast to Coast, Far Eastern Odyssey, Rick Stein’s Long Weekends and Rick Stein’s India.
6. Ottolenghi SIMPLE, from $29
This has to be one of my favourite cookbooks of all time.
Yotam Ottolenghi’s award-winning recipes are always a celebration — an unforgettable combination of abundance, taste and surprise.
Ottolenghi SIMPLE is no different, with 130 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and flavour combinations that Ottolenghi is loved for, but with minimal hassle for maximum joy.
Bursting with colourful photography, Ottolenghi SIMPLE showcases Yotam’s standout dishes that will suit whatever type of cooking you find easy.
7. Half Baked Harvest Cookbook: Recipes from My Barn in the Mountains, from $39.35
Tieghan Gerard is my favourite Instagram cook, her page Half-Baked Harvest is world famous for colourful and creative, home-cooked dishes.
Now, in The Half-Baked Harvest Cookbook, Tieghan showcases the creativity that’s become beloved on her mega-popular blog with brand-new recipes that are flexible, feel-good, and simply yummy.
She turns comfort food on its ear by bringing brightness, texture, and fresh ingredients to it.
As Tieghan does, these are the dishes readers will want to share with their loved ones time and time again.
To find out more and shop the cookbooks, head to Amazon Australia’s website here.