5 Ingredients Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food [American Measurements]

Love this cookbook! 5 ingredients & the recipes are delicious!!! I have already tried 4 recipes & just got the cookbook. Very simple & easy to understand instructions. I love that Jamie has a picture of every recipe & picture of all 5 ingredients with each recipe. You won't be disappointed.

Love the recipes, this cook book is full of beautiful photos and easy instructions. I have another Jamie Oliver cookbook and I’m delighted by the consistency of his philosophy. Delicious healthy food focused on quality ingredients. Not too fussy! There are some different names and packaging we use in the US, still the photos make it clear what ingredients the recipe is calling for. I’ve never seen so many creative poultry recipes in my life! That alone is inspiring! The veg chapter is fantastic. You can easily focus on a plant based diet with this cook book too! The ingredients are easy to find, I often go to my local Safeway and grab what I need to whip up one of these meals. I do keep a full spice rack at all times, so I often make my own spice blends. I don’t eat dairy, I also make my own homemade plant based yogurt and cheeses. I have no issues making a quick substitution that fits my diet and pantry. The methods are well executed and easy to follow. The recipes give me inspiration to mix and match. The flavors are exceptional! I live in a large diverse city in NorCal, so I am accustomed to food and flavors from all over the world. I grew up in the Midwest in a diverse capitol city and it’s similar there. I find the ingredients, the “5 ingredient pantry,” spices, flavors and methods to be easy, delicious and inspiring! I recommend this book to everyone needing weeknight meal inspiration! My only complaint is that the book arrived slightly damaged, the title page has a crease in it. I goober my cookbooks, so I kept it. I was disappointed my new book came with damage from Amazon.

This is a little more like a coffee table book than a cookbook - very slickly produced, heavily reliant on graphics. I mistook it for a book about recipes for a Mediterranean Diet; it is instead focused on Mediterranean dishes. I did not rate it down for this, as it was my mistake - I only mention it to keep others from making the same mistake. I went through all the recipes and was a little dissapointed to find many using odd ingredients like squid and duck. These aren't ingredients I associate with quick meals. In fact, despite being a book of recipes using only five ingredients, not all of the recipes are quick to make. There are also way too many recipes in the book using eggplant, since we all know everyone hates eggplant. With that being said, I was able to get some good ideas for some simple and healthy dishes amoung the recipes.

Recently, I bought three of Jamie Oliver‘s cookbooks because he was doing some wild demonstration on Facebook. He had mentioned one of his new books was Five Ingredients , Mediterranean Quick and Easy Food that definitely appealed to me. Only five? I think the Mediterranean looks more tasty but I'm still glad I bought both versions. The books are solid, heavy, four color, easy to keep open, and ever so entertaining. Definitely VALUE driven! A lot of bang for the buck and books that can withstand time. Once on Amazon, I ended up ordering three books of Jamie Oliver’s. I had a hard time picking between many of them so I splurged and bought three cool looking books written by Jamie Oliver. I’ve always adored Jamie since the first time I saw him in London a few decades ago and I noticed he worked very hard to keep the big networks away from owning him and fat cats that want to steal the profit off artists like Jamie, usually ending up owning the artist own catalog. I really admired him for not taking big money and keeping his focus on his own interest such as revamping the London school system food where he made global awareness that school food does not have to suck or cost more. When his books arrived I thumbed through a few of them and I realized quickly, Jamie Oliver does not write “just” cookbooks. He doesn’t just sell recipes, he sells entire lifestyles, purity, happiness, and the reader inadvertently learns how to handle that asparagus, or garlic, how to store it, and things we never really think much about. And he does not use very many words actually to get the point across. Just from the five minute quick and easy food book I learned he truly can take the most pathetic refrigerator of a bachelor or bachelorette that can contain only old Parmesan cheese from a party, mushrooms that have been sitting in the back of the fridge for a month, cloves of garlic that do not yet have a destination, and fresh sage from perhaps a garden whip them together, bake them for 30 minutes at 400 degrees and transform these ingredients, into a beautiful roasted mushroom garlic side dish! I am caring for a person that needs to eat 6000 calories a day. That is a challenge and I’m a busy author myself. But I love this person and he hast to eat 6000 cal a day which is almost like eating every hour on the hour. It was a stroke. They blew up his pituitary gland and for some reason his body metabolizes at the speed of light. He’s actually underweight because it’s just really hard to eat 6000 calories a day. Thank you, Oliver. I’ll be using your books basically exclusively to help my friend eat, eat and eat some more! Deborah Dolen ~ Author

I do want to start off by saying that this is a very beautiful cookbook with a gorgeous layout of pictures for each recipe! All of these recipes look absolutely delicious and very healthy as well. However, this comes down to me being disappointed in the fact that a bulk of the ingredients were items that are not easily found or carried in our local grocery stores and markets. One factor for me is that I live in the South (Tennessee) and we do not have easy access to some of these ingredients that may be found more easily in the Northeastern or Western areas of the United States. There are several cheeses, pastes, spices, fruits (passion fruit) , and misc ingredients that I have never heard of or able to find in order to construct these recipes. Again, this is a very nice and beautiful cookbook that is loaded with many delicious recipes but it just wasn't a good fit for 'me' due to the difficulty in finding the ingredients. I am sharing so that others may know that this could possibly be a struggle for them as well.

We like Jamie Oliver’s down to earth approach to cooking. Very flexible.

I have come to love the author of this recipe book so much that I bought his other 5 ingredient recipe book. The recipes in this book are healthy and hassle free to make. It’s brought my love of cooking back and I don’t have to make ridiculously long grocery lists for good food. I do want to note that he doesn’t consider olive oil, salt, pepper, red wine vinegar, harissa spices as ingredients so it’s something to consider having as your staple ingredients as he does use them in almost every recipe.

Love this book. Simple food. Not complicated.

Lo máximo si te gusta cocinar rico y MUY FACIL

Con este libro se hace fácil cocinar bien y rápido. La comida sale rica y no toma horas en la cocina.

Lite udda

Excellent livre de cuisine. Les recetes sont simples à suivre et on peut facilement substituer d'autres produits dans les recettes si on n'a pas celui cité dans la recette: par exemple d'autres types de fromage ou légumes, etc. Avec ce livre j'apprends à suivre le régime Mediterranéan qui est conseillé pour la santé.

Recipes are pretty easy, affordable.. you can easily modify the meals to fit your preferences. Overall, i would really recommend. Even a a gift, in those times, it might motivate someone to cook lol. :)