Ottolenghi Spices Gift Set

Giving away joy - the perfect gift for Ottolenghi's cookbooks At Nabali, we offer authentic blend of spices from the Middle East and North Africa. Like us, Yotam Ottolenghi and Tamimi get their spices from the cookbooks in Palestine. This gift box contains our bestselling spices and a beautiful greeting card. Box products in detail: Zaatar 100G: The name of this spice mixture comes from its main ingredient, wild thyme, as it is the Arabic name of the herb used. In terms of taste, it corresponds to the local oregano. It also contains sesame, sumac and a little salt. This spice mix is known to be the most popular in Palestine and it is even used for breakfast. It is used with olive oil and fresh wholemeal bread. Zatar: This ingredient is the freshly picked wild thyme. It gives the spice mixture its characteristic taste. Sesame: The intense taste is created by lightly roasting. Sesame is responsible for the oily part of this mixture. Sumac: This spice is characteristic of Turkish, Syrian and Lebanese cuisine. It is mainly used for stews with chicken, lamb and fish. Salt: This mineral is mainly used as a flavor enhancer to underline all the other intense spices. Sumac 100G The vinegar berry is a delicious, tiny, tart fruit and is mainly used in the Middle East for hearty dishes. It contains a lot of vitamin C and filling fiber. Nabali Fairkost Sumach comes 100% from Palestine and is hand-picked, dried and ground by women's cooperatives. Sumac has a fruity - sour taste and is often used as a substitute for lemons and vinegar in dishes. Did you know that our delicious Zatar also contains sumac? Both house chefs and star chef Otto Lenghi are fascinated by the light, sour taste that the spice gives the dishes. Shakshuka 100G Who Invented Shakshuka? Is it Israeli, Arabic or does it come from North Africa! We don't really care, because we know it's just delicious and easy to prepare. In Israel, Shakshuka is a national dish and is mainly eaten for breakfast. In Palestine, on the other hand, it is preferred as an evening meal with delicious bread. Our spice mixture comes from Palestine and was made in the traditional Arab / Israeli way. Thus, Shakshuka succeeds straight away, as Ottolenghi hopes for in his Jerusalem cookbook. Black cumin seeds 100G These are the seeds of real black cumin. Contrary to what one might assume, this actually belongs neither to caraway nor to cumin. As a peppery spice and medicine, however, it has been used in the Orient for over 2000 years. This spice is particularly popular in Asia and the Orient, but now also in Europe. It is also called "breadwort". This plant is particularly popular in Egypt. Here not only culinary qualities are ascribed to it, but also healing qualities. During excavations, small bottles of black cumin oil were even found in the graves of the pharaohs, and it was also used here as a burial object. The processing of black cumin seeds is relatively complex. However, our suppliers are happy to accept this expense in favor of the high product quality. The black cumin is delicious and an ancient cultivated plant that originated in Egypt. Even the pharaohs used this to refine food and to strengthen the immune system. The small brown-black seeds contain many valuable essential oils. A high-quality and aromatic oil is cold-pressed from the seeds for food purposes, which can be digested well. We recommend sprinkling the seeds on homemade flatbread as a spice for cream cheese or to refine soups. Dukkah is a Palestinian spice blend made from fine cumin, anise, toasted sesame and wheat. The perfect coordination of the spices creates a unique composition, which is ingeniously diverse and can miraculously intensify the taste of a dish or even steer it in a different direction. If you want a flavourful oriental dip, the Dukkah spice mix is the right choice. It is sprinkled on fresh bread and, depending on your taste, drizzled with olive oil or argan oil, turning it into a delicious paste. Ingredients: Wheat: finely ground, it becomes a kind of semolina that makes the paste that can be made from it particularly creamy. Sesame: The sesame seeds also have to be roasted for this spice mixture to intensify the taste. This creates the special taste of this spice mixture. Cumin: The name of this herb is divided into two parts and the same goes for the meanings. The leaves are slightly cross-shaped and the shape of the fruit is somewhat reminiscent of caraway seeds. In fact, the plant is not related to caraway. It is also called cumin and has a very special taste. Connoisseurs automatically locate this taste in the Orient, for which it is typical. Cookbook this is how Palestine tastes 220 page cookbook from home. Lots of delicious recipes that you can easily copy, as well as information about the cities in Palestine and video cooking instructions. Gift box All spices are delivered with love by our staff in a beautiful, high-quality and sturdy cardboard box. The box is filled with wood wool and the spices are placed in it. The box is also safely stowed in a cardboard box. Then comes a festive bow.