Middle Eastern Recipe Book

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We've recently discovered middle eastern food via a coupke of restaurants and I'm keen to have a go at home.

I know I can look online, but I like a book, with pictures. I'm a pretty competent cook, but I'm looking for sometging fairly straightforward for weeknight meals.

Any suggestions?

Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour is a good place to start - the recipes are really straightforward and you can find the majority of ingredients in the supermarket if you don't have a decent Asian shop nearby.
The Honey & Co one by Itamar Shrulovich/Sarit Packer is also really good (particuarly their prawn and orange dish (on the MN YT channel too)) once you've got into your stride.

Diana Henry does lovely middle eastern recipes. Quite a lot can be found online (if you want to test them first) and Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons is a great book.

Jerusalem by Ottolenghi is amazing, but maybe not for midweek meals!

I love this type of food!

I second Moonlight's suggestion of Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour - it's a really good book with some fab recipes

Also Claudia Roden is good. I like [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tamarind-Saffron-Favourite-Recipes-Penguin/dp/0140466940 Tamarind & Saffron]]

I do this a lot Meatballs with tomato and eggs. It's easy and gorgeous.

Great, thanks all, I will have a look at all your suggestions

I third the Persiana suggestion too - fantastic.

Also Vegistan and Snackistan are fabulous too.

I was going to suggest Veggistan by Sally Butcher (great name for author of a vegetarian recipe book!). I love Middle Eastern food.

I quite like Vegistan but a few things I've made have been a bit bland.

Persiana is good but a few of the measurements are a bit off in terms of salt and stuff.

The jewelled kitchen is amazing. My favouritete- particularly for every day meals. I also love Jerusalem.

I have arabesque by Claudia Rosen which is a great read but I've never cooked from it so perhaps it's not one I'd recommend.

Thanks for the additional recommendations, my Amazon account is taking a bit of a hit...!