Publisher: Kyle Books
Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Genre: Cooking
Summary:
Sat Bains worked out, always maintained a reasonable weight and considered himself fit and healthy, so it was a shock when, in March 2021, he had a massive heart attack and underwent an emergency triple heart bypass operation.
During recovery, Sat consulted his friend, nutritionist Dr Neil Williams, who guided him on a revised diet to help maintain heart health. Having two Michelin Stars and a three-decade long obsession with flavour, Sat was not willing to sacrifice great food just because his diet now had to be heart healthy. This collection of recipes is made up of those he devised following surgery and focuses on lean protein, a mix of legumes, good fats - such as avocado, nuts and olive oil - and vegetables and fruits.
These delicious, simple dishes are designed for every day, they use supermarket-friendly ingredients and are accompanied by nutritional advice highlighting the ingredients rich in heart-healthy vitamins and minerals.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Kyle Books and Sat Bains for having me on this tour and sending me the book.
Firstly thank you to Random Things Book Tours, Kyle Books and Sat Bains for having me on this tour and sending me the book.
I absolutely love a cookbook! They are the best thing to have on a shelf for when you want to switch up the recipes you're cooking or you've got in a rut with what you're making and you need inspiration. This one was a must-have for me because my mum had a heart scare last year so taking care of your heart has become a little bit more on my mind of late.
Normally when you have a recipe book written by Michelin Star chefs you expect to have to perform magic to get hold of the ingredients list and I love that that isn't the case with this one. Sat Bains has kept the ingredients to things that we can all get hold of easily at the supermarket, in fact, the only thing I had trouble getting hold of was Anchovys and that was just a case of my supermarkets having sold out typically. The recipes themselves are really well laid out and they are all really easy to follow, no complicated things to do to get the frankly delicious outcome. I really enjoyed having the Nutritional notes for the recipes, it just gave you that extra bit of information to be able to put together your own informed choices for heart-healthy foods outside of the book.
I've tried a fair few of the recipes so far and two of my favourites are the coddled eggs, something I'd never tried before, and it's now my new favourite breakfast and the four bean chilli which I loved so much that I made a batch for the freezer for healthy lunches. I found it a really nice change that all the recipes, bar maybe one, are all to serve two people which makes them really easy to scale up or down depending on your family size.
This has been a fantastic book to review and I'm definitely going to be using it a lot, I think I've tabbed half the recipes as "want to try" and every one I've tried so far has been brilliant!
Normally when you have a recipe book written by Michelin Star chefs you expect to have to perform magic to get hold of the ingredients list and I love that that isn't the case with this one. Sat Bains has kept the ingredients to things that we can all get hold of easily at the supermarket, in fact, the only thing I had trouble getting hold of was Anchovys and that was just a case of my supermarkets having sold out typically. The recipes themselves are really well laid out and they are all really easy to follow, no complicated things to do to get the frankly delicious outcome. I really enjoyed having the Nutritional notes for the recipes, it just gave you that extra bit of information to be able to put together your own informed choices for heart-healthy foods outside of the book.
I've tried a fair few of the recipes so far and two of my favourites are the coddled eggs, something I'd never tried before, and it's now my new favourite breakfast and the four bean chilli which I loved so much that I made a batch for the freezer for healthy lunches. I found it a really nice change that all the recipes, bar maybe one, are all to serve two people which makes them really easy to scale up or down depending on your family size.
This has been a fantastic book to review and I'm definitely going to be using it a lot, I think I've tabbed half the recipes as "want to try" and every one I've tried so far has been brilliant!
Krystina xx
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