wagamama Feed Your Soul: Fresh + simple recipes from the wagamama kitchen
THE LONG-AWAITED, ALL-NEW COOKBOOK FROM WAGAMAMA
These dishes have been designed for every occasion and offer recipes for a variety of diets. Cook rapid weekday meals, watch slow-cooked ramens simmer and even learn the art of making gyoza - Feed Your Soul is packed with tips and ideas for bringing wagamama to your kitchen.
Feed Your Soul encourages mindful cooking - taking the time to appreciate and enjoy creating and eating these dishes is key. Methods for preparing your own homemade ramen noodles, kimchee, sauces and stocks are shared, so your dishes can be created entirely by you. We can't always spare the time to make everything from scratch, so you'll also find speedy, nutritious and simple recipes, as well as ingredient swaps and hacks.
Including the never-before-shared recipe for chicken katsu curry, the famous yaki soba and fiery bang bang cauliflower, the dishes are balanced and offer suggestions for alternatives should you not have all the ingredients at home, allowing you to be more sustainable and creative in the kitchen.
With original food photography, evocative shots of Japanese food emporia and lifestyle shots of noodles, ramen and ingredients, Feed Your Soul is set to become the new classic wagamama cookbook.
Reviews (183)
Poor Attention To Detail
I don't understand the positive reviews here. There's a "shopping list" at the front of the book, listing the basic ingredients you need for the recipes. Great, I think, very handy, and I order all of them online. The first recipe I try is Teriyaki Lamb on page 72. I make sure I have all of the various meat, veg, noodle ingredients needed here too. Then the ingredients arrive and I come to cooking the dish. Page 72 directs me to page 148 for details on making the teriyaki sauce. There I find that it needs 2 tablespoons of sake, *which isn't in the shopping list*. Arrgghh. I'm self-isolating due to cancer, so I can't just pop down to the shops to get a missing ingredient, and we don't keep other alcohol in the house. I'll need to wait a week for the next delivery now. So, I should have probably checked the appendices at the back of the book before ordering, but really the sake should be in the shopping list of basic ingredients at the front. It is after all used in the *very first sauce* in the appendix. It's been missed off. A lot of effort has been spent writing a lot of guff about how great Wagamama is at the front, and not enough time has actually been spent checking the details in the front. What I would like to see: (i.) a full shopping list of all the basic ingredients you need at the front, and (ii.) no need to go and refer to the appendices at the back of the book when making one of the recipes - it's a pain.
At last a recipe for firecracker chicken!
When out shopping in the big city Mrs E. L. Wisty and I are inevitably drawn to Wagamama for lunch. We have had the previous two books for a number of years, but the menus evolve, some dishes vanish, new recipes appear, and in recent times I have been highly predictable when visiting the restaurant by choosing the incendiary but addictive firecracker chicken. I have so wanted to get a recipe for it for ages, and finally that day has arrived. Oh, and there are some other recipes too...
Fantastic !
Bought as a birthday gift for my boyfriend as he enjoys cooking and loves a wagamamas ! This was the first dish he made and it was amazing. It also has a great recipe for their sticky white rice which is easy and always turns out fantastic. We couldn’t really do rice before but we’ve mastered it now. Another thing I like is that it informs you where you can buy the sauces and also has recipes to make them.
Love this book!
Love the recipes! The book is set out to show you how many it serves, list of ingredients and some great pictures. The ingredients are broken down for the main dish, the sauce & garnish, makes it all very clear. I was impressed with the little hints they give you for alternatives to adapt the dishes to vegetarian/vegan diets. I wish that they would have given dome nutritional information for each dish though. Don’t be put off by the sauces, most of them are very quick to make. Most of them require sauces etc that you probably already have in your cupboard. I also liked that they let you know how to store everything & how long it keeps for. They have some great staple recipes such as bang bang cauliflower, wok fried greens, pad thai as well as juice recipes. So pleased with this purchase! I have made a few dishes & so far so good!
Delicious
Delicious recipes but be warned, they take forever and there are so many steps and separate sauces you need to make for the recipe (or at least for the couple I’ve tried to far). Everything I’ve made so far has been super yummy but definitely not a quick midweek meal!
Good book, not quite like the food in restaurant though
I mainly bought this book for the Katsu Curry recipe. One of my favourite Wagamama menu choices and the idea of making it at home was a no-brainer. That said, i followed the recipes to the letter yet it was a noticably different flavour to the sauce you have in the restaurant. I guess it seems obvious they arent going to want you to make at home what they do in restaurant but it seems a bit pointless having a recipe for something then! This said the book is actually quite good and the katsu curry recipe itself is still nice. There were also some other recipes we've used from it so it was actually a good buy still. Just the recipe not being exact knocks a star off!
Best recipe book bought so far, and we’ve bought lots
Haven’t found anything we dislike yet but Firecracker chicken/prawn, wok-fried greens, bang bang cauliflower and short rib ramen are just amazing!
Waga at home = always happy
Fantastic book with so many recipes zof the restaurants favourite dishes plus many others I've not seen on the menu before. It includes shopping lists and lists of substitution items which is great for making sure you can still follow the recipes. The instructions are easy to follow.
Great cookbook
Includes a lot of the Wagamamas current recipes with very simple how to’s for different components of the dishes, eg if you just want to make a sauce there’s the recipes for that separately. Please be aware that some recipes will have components of the same recipes on different pages which it directs you too. This wasn’t a problem for me as it always tells you which page to go to but this may be irritating for others. This is perfect for the Wagamamas fan to make your own food at home and widen your cooking skills
Recipes have not been proof read
This book has clearly not been proof-read. The recipe for Chicken and Prawn Pad Thai is flawed - it calls for boneless and skinless chicken thighs but it does not specify how it should be prepped in the recipe. Instead it reads as if you’re supposed to cook the chicken as one piece. There is also a typo in the recipe in the second paragraph, so it looks like the oil has to be seasoned. It’s not as if the instructions are long. Not impressed.
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