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Bitter

Bitter

80 delicious flavour-packed and original recipes, as seen on Saturday Kitchen

Summary

**AS SEEN ON SATURDAY KITCHEN* | ‘DELECTABLENigella Lawson | 'A GEM' Rukmini Iyer | ‘LOVELY RECIPES' Georgina Hayden | 'STUNNING AND INVENTIVEIxta Belfrage | 'A CRACKING BOOK' Olly Smith | 'DELIGHTFUL' Marc Diacono | 'EXTREMELY ACCOMPLISHED' Jay Rayner (on MasterChef) | 'REALLY IMPRESSES ME WITH HER ORIGINALITY' Greg Wallace (on MasterChef)

80 flavourful, vibrant recipes to brighten up your table this Spring.

Fearlessly bringing together the best flavours and culinary strategies from around the world, Alexina Anatole will help you use bitter flavours in your cooking to improve the taste of everything you make, whether it's a savoury weeknight dinner or a sweet and decadent dessert - one flavour-balancing technique at a time.

These 80 recipes take classic favourites to a new level and include moreish solutions for every meal, and include:


  • Matcha Basque Cheesecake
  • Tomato + Lapsand Souchong Salad
  • Raw Kale and Grapefruit Salad
  • Roast Chicken with Beer Butter Onions
  • Raddichio Burrata with Olive Oil and Breadcrumbs
  • Aubergine with Whipped Feta
  • Ancho Coffee Beef Short Ribs
  • Strawberry, Bitter Lemon + Rooibos Sorbet
  • Salmon Tacos with Grapefruit Avocado
  • Negroni Pavlova

Using ten star ingredients with recipes that demonstrate how to cook with each type of bitterness - from grapefruit and bitter oranges, bitter greens, tahini, beer, walnuts, cranberries, tea, coffee, cocoa, and liquorice - each dish will expand your repertoire and open the door to new worlds of deliciousness.

Reviews

  • I may have said this quite a few times, but I feel it bears repeating: bitterness is the most undesirable of attributes, except when it comes to food … My 'bitter tooth' is pronounced … I gravitated greedily towards Alexina Anatole’s book, Bitter
    Nigella Lawson, Nigella.com

About the author

Alexina Anatole

Alexina Anatole is a chef, presenter, and writer based in London. After reaching the final of MasterChef in 2021, she made a brave career change from the trading floor to the food world. Her debut cookbook – Bitter – was published by Square Peg, Vintage in September 2023 to critical acclaim from the likes of Nigella Lawson, Rukmini Iyer, and Waterstones. Anatole also writes Small Wins, a Substack newsletter that enhances your cooking and your life in small, manageable ways. She has been featured on BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, and BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme as well as social media platforms including MOB and TopJaw. She also runs sell-out events, including Sel, London’s most intimate supper club, and Cocoa POP, a chocolate-themed pop-up with chocolatier Octavia Lamb. Alexina is of mixed heritage: the granddaughter of chicken farmers from Cambridgeshire and Saint Lucian grandparents who arrived in London during the Windrush.
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