Review

Jamie Oliver returns with the second series, focusing on easy family-centric cooking. This is Oliver stripped back-to-basics and all the better for it as he presents a series of simple but tasty recipes (The Sunday Telegraph)

This is Oliver’s best book in years (The Sunday Times)

Lovely straightforward ideas (The Daily Telegraph)

Our favourite new recipe book . . . Simple suppers from the nation’s favourite chef (Sainsbury’s Magazine)

The power of five . . . It’s the combinations that count. Jamie Oliver conjures easy, mouth watering dishes from only a handful of ingredients (The Sunday Times)

Jamie’s brilliant new book, 5 Ingredients Quick and Easy, extra tasty (The Sunday Times)

The hit of the season (possibly of the year) . . . lovely straight forward ideas (The Daily Telegraph)

Didn’t think Jamie could get more straight-forward than 15 minute recipes? Think again (Aberdeen Evening Express)

[A] refreshing concept . . . if you’re short of time you can create a tasty meal in no time (Choice Magazine)

From the Inside Flap

Using five ingredients, cleverly combined, you’ll conjure up THE most exciting food . . . from this week’s episode, tender lamb shoulder roasted with dried chickpeas, zesty preserved lemons, sweet ripened plum tomatoes, spiced with zingy Moroccan ras el hanout. Super green spaghetti – cavolo nero blitzed up with garlic and Parmesan, dotted with spoonfuls of ricotta. A one-pan fabulous fish – white basmati rice, topped with dollops of green olive tapenade, fresh fragrant basil leaves, cherry tomatoes and delicious flaky haddock. And for dessert, golden apple crumble cookies whipped up in an instant with dried apple, self-raising flour, butter, sugar and one egg . . . Superb.

It’s all about making the journey to good food, super-simple. Every recipe uses just five key ingredients, ensuring you can get a plate of food together fast, whether it’s finished and on the table super-quickly, or after minimal hands-on prep, you’ve let the oven do the hard work for you. We’re talking quality over quantity, a little diligence on the cooking front, and in return massive flavour.

Each recipe has been tried and tested (and tested again!) to ensure the book is packed with no-fuss, budget-friendly dishes that you can rustle up, any day of the week.

With over 130 recipes, and chapters on Chicken, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Fish, Eggs, Veg, Salads, Pasta, Rice and Noodles and Sweet Things, there’s plenty of quick and easy recipe inspiration to choose from.

From the Back Cover

Using five ingredients, cleverly combined, you’ll conjure up THE most exciting food . . . from this week’s episode, tender lamb shoulder roasted with dried chickpeas, zesty preserved lemons, sweet ripened plum tomatoes, spiced with zingy Moroccan ras el hanout. Super green spaghetti – cavolo nero blitzed up with garlic and Parmesan, dotted with spoonfuls of ricotta. A one-pan fabulous fish – white basmati rice, topped with dollops of green olive tapenade, fresh fragrant basil leaves, cherry tomatoes and delicious flaky haddock. And for dessert, golden apple crumble cookies whipped up in an instant with dried apple, self-raising flour, butter, sugar and one egg . . . Superb.

It’s all about making the journey to good food, super-simple. Every recipe uses just five key ingredients, ensuring you can get a plate of food together fast, whether it’s finished and on the table super-quickly, or after minimal hands-on prep, you’ve let the oven do the hard work for you. We’re talking quality over quantity, a little diligence on the cooking front, and in return massive flavour.

Each recipe has been tried and tested (and tested again!) to ensure the book is packed with no-fuss, budget-friendly dishes that you can rustle up, any day of the week.

With over 130 recipes, and chapters on Chicken, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Fish, Eggs, Veg, Salads, Pasta, Rice and Noodles and Sweet Things, there’s plenty of quick and easy recipe inspiration to choose from.

Jamie’s brilliant new book, 5 Ingredients Quick and Easy, extra tasty (The Sunday Times)

It’s all about making the journey to good food, super-simple. Every recipe uses just five key ingredients, ensuring you can get a plate of food together fast, whether it’s finished and on the table super-quickly, or after minimal hands-on prep, you’ve let the oven do the hard work for you. We’re talking quality over quantity, a little diligence on the cooking front, and in return massive flavour.

About the Author

Jamie Oliver is a global phenomenon in food and campaigning. During a 20-year television and publishing career he has inspired millions of people to enjoy cooking from scratch and eating fresh, delicious food. Through his organisation, Jamie is leading the charge on a global food revolution, aiming to reduce childhood obesity and improve everyone’s health and happiness through food.

Jamie started cooking at his parents’ pub, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, at the age of eight. After leaving school he began a career as a chef that took him to the River Cafe, where he was famously spotted by a television production company and the Naked Chef was born.

He has now published 22 bestselling cookery books, all with accompanying TV shows. Jamie lives in London and Essex with his wife Jools and their children.

Books-for-Everyone Customer
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Game Changer!
04 June 2019
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This book had literally changed my life. After living on ready made meals most of my life the idea of eating better appealed to me. Then Jamie came along with the fantastic idea of putting this collection of recipes together all with just 5 ingredients. Game changer for me cooking fresh every single day. No ready meals, no takeaways. Losing weight, feeling better and enjoying cooking. My son has loved everything I have cooked so far. Brilliant idea! Brilliant book!

71 people found this helpful

KM
HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great cookbook – clear – Concise and dead easy to follow with good photographs. (Recipe list in review)
2 June 2019
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As a mad keen home cook I have loads of cook books from all the well and not so well known chefs. I have quite a few of Jamie’s and was eager to get my hands on this one!

It’s a typical Jamie Oliver Cookbook – nicely put together – very easy to understand – dead easy to follow the well written recipes and he provides us with a nice colour photograph of how the finished dish should look. Not that it always does in my case!

Each left hand page shows you the 5 ingredients down the left side and has the nutritional info along the bottom. The right hand page is a full colour photograph of the finished dish. Really plain and easy to follow.

I have already made the Asian Fried eggs which were delicious and I’m making the Nutty Kale Salad for my dinner in work tonight.

If you want to see what’s inside before you buy – here’s a list of the dishes/recipes in order as they are presented in the book. . . .

There’s nutritional notes at the back of this book in regards to how to balance your plate with Veg and Fruit – carbs – Proteins – Dairy – fats and Oils.

I really like this one from Jamie. It’s clear, concise and very easy to follow. As somebody who grows their own veg I found there’s loads of good veggie options in here too. Loving the egg dishes in here as well. I think I’ll be buying a few for Christmas for foodie friends. Recommended.

118 people found this helpful

LM1982
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So easy to follow
23 May 2019
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So easy to follow. Perfect for midweek meals. So quick and easy. A picture with every recipe which I really love in any cook book. Nothing too fancy the store cupboard ingredients are really that mostly just oil and red wine vinegar. As a family of 4 with 2 young children 6 and 8 we eat from this book most days. By far the best Jamie Oliver book.

36 people found this helpful

Zak the Dog
⭐⭐⭐ Quick, easy and slightly lacking substance
9 May 2019
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I’m torn by this book.

I really like Jamie Oliver and a lot of his books and series and his social media content in general is great and a lot of the recipes in this book are good.

The premise of this book is good but I feel it is also what let’s it down the whole 5 ingredient thing holds it back. Some of the recipes just seem like the are missing something and others seem like a bit of filler for the book.

Overall some good recipes and some not so great.

32 people found this helpful

Kevin
TOP 500 REVIEWER
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy recopies, just a lot of them you wouldn’t make
17 April 2019
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The book is well put together with lots of great pictures that make it appealing and easy to follow. My 5 year old has even been able to do a lot of the work to make granola with just a little help, but there are many recopies in here that may be simple but aren’t what my family will eat, so the few that are useful will get learned and used a lot and the rest will remain never made in a book that’ll stay in the cupboard.

155 people found this helpful

petite7
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic
11 April 2019
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Great book….if your on a tight budget then this book is brilliant…not a ton of ingredients …..I love this book…..when you come home from work the last thing you want sometimes is spending hours in the kitchen.. and the meals taste fab….so buy this book you will not be disappointed wish I had bought it sooner….happy cooking😃

148726 people found this helpful

Esiotrot
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant
26 March 2019
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This book has taught me how to cook. With only five ingredients you can’t go too far wrong and it allows you to expand or swap out with minimal disruption to what you are making. A lot of recipes always list a truck load of ingredients and I always thought to myself: ‘whats this spice for? What does this herb add that the other one doesn’t?’. This book just strips it down to the basics and you can build from there.

Each recipe has pictures of every ingredient, the steps it takes to cook said ingredients and a photo of the end result which is all you need. As with all Jamie books I feel at times the language can be too flippant and generic when something needs to be cooked specifically. As someone that wants to get it right I feel this can be a push into the unknown with no help but most times it works out.

This is definitely a book for those learning to cook or wanting to experiment with minimalist meals – would recommend to anyone.

586 people found this helpful

Roseyposey
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love it
23 March 2019
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Really pleased with this book of Jamie’s, also a nice change for recipes that don’t have a dozen or more ingredients, which you buy as they are so obscure and never use again! Watching the programme too where you can see how simple these recipes are.

11 people found this helpful

Funkyrabbit
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you buy one cookbook this year, make it this one
6 March 2019
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If you buy one cookbook this year, make it this one. Such fantastic variety of recipes broken into sections like pasta, fish, chicken etc No “weird” ingredients, so easy to prepare and yet so tasty. We have a very busy week with school, clubs and work but since having got this book we have had such tasty meals without any stress whatsoever to cook. It has become a family favourite to refer to. Get it! You will not regret it at all.