9 Cookbooks Every Home Cook Needs To Become More Creative [In The Kitchen]
With so many new cuisines, ingredients, and methods of cooking at home, now is the time to start experimenting in the kitchen! To get you started, this range of cookbooks will provide the means, and the know-how, to be more creative, and discover some delicious new recipes.
1. The Simple Art of Japanese Cooking: Everything You Need in a Japanese Cookbook
Alice Waterson
Japanese cooking has become very popular over the past decades. Food is an important part of Japanese culture, where it has been elevated to an art form, combining textures and colors to perfection. When properly plated, a Japanese dish should present an inviting picture.
This Japanese Cookbook uses typical Japanese ingredients that you should always have on hand, such as mirin, rice vinegar, sesame seeds, seaweed, and ginger. These ingredients make up the basis of many recipes in this Japanese Cookbook. It’s what makes Japanese cuisine so unique and delicious.
The recipes in this Japanese Cookbook are healthful as they use very little oil, just a dash of sesame seed oil for the occasional sautéing. You’ll love preparing impressive sushi appetizers and flavorful broths that enhance any meal. The recipes in this Cookbook are perfect for family dinners and impressive when entertaining guests.
Kindle: $2.99
Paperback: $9.99
The Simple Art of Japanese Cooking
2. Veg: Easy & Delicious Meals for Everyone
Jamie Oliver
A real explosion of color, taste and variety, he wants to get the nation switched on to just how tasty and comforting veggie meals can be, leaving people feeling full, satisfied and happy – and not missing meat from their plate. Whether it’s embracing a meat-free day or two each week, living a vegetarian lifestyle, or just wanting to try some brilliant new flavor combinations, this book ticks all the boxes.
Sharing simple tips and tricks that will excite the taste buds, and help keep people’s brains and mouths engaged, this book will also give people the confidence to up their veg intake and widen their recipe repertoire, safe in the knowledge that it’ll taste utterly delicious. From simple suppers and family favorites to weekend dishes for sharing with friends, this book is packed full of phenomenal food – pure and simple.
A book for everyone, this is the perfect moment for Jamie to inspire every kind of cook with his super-tasty, brilliantly simple, but inventive veg dishes.
‘It’s all about celebrating really good, tasty food that just happens to be meat-free’ Jamie Oliver.
Hardcover: $22.49
Veg: Easy & Delicious Meals for Everyone
3. The Complete Slow Cooker: From Appetizers to Desserts – 400 Must-Have Recipes That Cook While You Play (or Work)
America’s Test Kitchen
The Complete Slow Cooker is America’s Test Kitchen’s definitive guide to how to cook using a slow cooker. It builds on the success the test kitchen has had from years of testing and retesting slow cooker recipes and pushing the limits of what a slow cooker can do. Packed with 450 recipes, this blockbuster collection is for both new and experienced slow cooker cooks.
Kindle: $14.99
Paperback: $22.58
The Complete Slow Cooker
4. Tagines & Couscous: Delicious Recipes For Moroccan One-Pot Cooking
Ghillie Basan
In Ghillie Basan’s collection of deliciously authentic recipes, you will find some of the best-loved classics of the Moroccan kitchen, such as the sumptuous lamb tagine with dates, almonds and pistachios, and the tangy chicken tagine with preserved lemon, green olives and thyme.”
Kindle: $10.99
Hardcover: $15.99
Tagines and Couscous
5. Simply Pho: A Complete Course in Preparing Authentic Vietnamese Meals at Home
Helen Le
A collection of 75 authentic Vietnamese recipes to cook at home, with an emphasis on pho and its many possibilities. Simply Pho brings homemade Vietnamese cooking to your table with a delicious fusion of seventy-five recipes, including pho (soup and non-soup dishes), vermicelli and glass noodle dishes, appetizers, accompaniments, sandwiches, and drinks and desserts.
Author Helen Le, a native of Vietnam and popular YouTube cook, shows you how to create authentic Vietnamese dishes, from everyone’s favorites – pho (quick and not-so-quick versions), fresh spring rolls, and sandwiches – to those that will be new-found favorites, like pho omelets, crepes, and vermicelli and glass noodle dishes (with variations for meat-eaters, seafood lovers, and vegans). Helen also shows you how to make fresh pho noodles, dipping sauces, flavored oils, and pho aromatics. And you can finish your delicious meals with Vietnamese coffee and dessert.
Kindle: $11.99
Hardcover: $20.46
Simply Pho
6. Instant Pot Cookbook for Two: Easy, Healthy and Fast Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Recipes That Will Blow Your Mind
Dave Pine
Now, with Instant Pot Cookbook for Two, you can prepare fabulous meals for just two people, just as you would do for the entire family.
Complete with in-depth instructions, top tips and the getting the best out of your Instant Pot, there are also a range of recipes for every mealtime, to tempt and dazzle you.
Kindle: $2.99
Paperback: $9.99
Instant Pot Cookbook for Two
7. The Complete Healthy Smoothie for Nutribullet
Jason Manheim
In his previous books, such as his National Bestseller The Healthy Green Drink Diet, Jason Manheim taught us how to make delicious green smoothies, protein smoothies, and superfood smoothies that work wonders for organ health, immune system strength, and weight loss. Now, Manheim recreates these healthy recipes specifically for the Nutribullet (although they will work in other blenders) and makes them available —for the first time —all in one place.
While Manheim’s recipes are fantastic on their own, they can also easily be used as templates to expand your Nutribullet smoothie repertoire. Learn about adding healthy fats such as virgin olive oil, avocado, and coconut oil, and get advice on eliminating separation and foam. Everything you need to energize, look good, and feel great with healthy smoothies is packed within.
Kindle: $10.99
Hardcover: $3.70
The Complete Healthy Smoothie for Nutribullet
8. Air Fryer Cookbook for Beginners: Easy, Healthy & Low Carb Recipes That Will Help Keep You Sane
Alice Newman
Easy Air Fryer Recipes can help you to stay healthy and lose weight fast, it’s also a tremendous mixture of so many tasty foods and meals, and for sure you’ll have a clue which one to want to try first.
Before you dive into the variety of delicious air fryer recipes that will be good for your stomach, body, taste buds, and soul, you will become educated on the ways you can get the most from your air fryer, as well as an entire chapter dedicated to ways you can become stronger to the temptations of the world of convenience we live in today.
Kindle: $5.99
9. The Whole Fish Cookbook: New Ways To Cook, Eat And Think
Josh Niland
We all want to eat more fish, but who wants to bother spending the time, effort and money cooking that same old salmon fillet on repeat when you could be trying something new and utterly delicious?
In The Whole Fish Cookbook, Sydney’s groundbreaking seafood chef Josh Niland reveals a completely new way to think about all aspects of fish cookery. From sourcing and butchering to dry ageing and curing, it challenges everything we thought we knew about the subject and invites readers to see fish for what it really is – an amazing, complex source of protein that can, and should, be treated with exactly the same nose-to-tail reverence as meat.
Featuring more than 60 recipes for dozens of fish species ranging from Cod Liver Pate on Toast, Fish Cassoulet and Roast Fish Bone Marrow to – essentially – the Perfect Fish and Chips, The Whole Fish Cookbook will soon have readers seeing that there is so much more to a fish than just the fillet and that there are more than just a handful of fish in the sea.
Kindle: $9.60
Hardcover: $28.49
The Whole Fish Cookbook
Discover delicious new recipes from this range of cookbooks, which showcase new and exciting cuisines, ingredients and methods of cooking at home. You no longer have to rely on those comfortable, boring recipes you have on repeat. Start mixing it up today, you will not regret it!
