Essential Annabel Langbein

Annabel's 25th book is an essential contemporary, authoritative, and comprehensive kitchen companion for today's home cook—a 320-page treasury of easy but delicious savoury recipes illustrated with full-colour photography and accompanied by an encyclopaedia of tried-and-true cooking tips.

Featuring more than 650 recipes, Essential Annabel Langbein offers something for all tastes, all seasons, and all occasions. Some recipes are Annabel's own personal favourites. Others are timeless classics, selected by popular demand, then retested and tweaked to make them better than ever. Plus, there are dozens of new recipes created by Annabel especially for this book, inspired by the food she's cooking and eating right now.

Essential Annabel Langbein is not just a recipe book—it's a lifetime of cooking inspiration, showcasing more than 650 recipes, plus hundreds of variations and clever cooking tips designed to make you a more resourceful cook.

"My aim is to inspire people to try something new, then empower them to make it their own, changing ingredients to suit the season or their personal tastes, or applying 'springboard' techniques to different cuisines or flavour families. This makes it so easy to get creative in the kitchen and have fun around the table."

Every recipe has been retested and tweaked for today's tastes—maybe with fewer refined ingredients or a gluten-free option, or maybe with on-trend flavours such as sriracha, chipotle, or aquafaba. "It's amazing how our cooking has changed over the years. With a global pantry of flavours at our fingertips, it's now so easy to make interesting dishes from all around the world."