I have not read a book from this Australian company before but was quite surprised by the range of cuisines featured within its pages. There was quite a lot of Asian inspired meals which will go down well with my family. I really liked how clear everything was from the range of utensils you need to the recipes themselves. I will look out for other books in the range.

This cookbook just wasn’t for me unfortunately. I love cooking and trying out new recipes but nothing tickled my fancy. I do have a family of fussy eaters so that doesn’t help.

Australian Women’s Weekly One Pot is a wonderful selection of one pot meals. The meals are in sections for ease of use and the photos make the meals look lovely.

Lovely homely recipes that I cannot wait to incorporate into my mid-week meals list. Thank you Netgalley for the arc in exchange for a review.

The range of recipes, cooking pots and images used throughout this cookbook are useful and a great mix. I appreciate that the recipes are split into sections depending on which 'one pot' you will be cooking with and then each recipe had a photo of the final product as guidance. Some of the recipes come with tips also which are extremely helpful. There are also quite a few vegetarian recipes also.

The only thing it is missing for my personal preference is the nutritional information for each recipe including calories etc per serving.

Looking forwards to making many of these dishes in the winter ahead!

Disclosure: Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read in return for an honest review.

3.5☆ A Fantastic Selection of One Pot Delights. Something for everyone!

This delightful cookbook literally has thought of everything. There's something for everyone, vegetarian, vegan, Pescetarian, Meat Eaters, Gluten free to name a few.

My only reason for 3☆ is that I really don't think this book is suitable for digital format. No matter how much I adjusted the settings I felt like I was struggling to read the font as it stretched across my screen.
However the vast selection of recipes is definitely 4☆

The recipes appear to be nutritious and healthy with a really good mix of fresh ingredients. The step by step guide seems simple enough to follow. The handy conversion guide at the back is a fabulous bonus.

I loved the fact that each chapter is broken down into suitable utensils for each recipe, such as a Wok, Frying Pan, Saucepan, Baking Dish. Which as the title suggests it means using one pan, which means less hassle cooking & less washing up.
Being as I'm in the UK some of the ingredients are not the same ie, capsicum - peppers.
I'm not sure how cost effective this book could be as some of the ingredients seem a lil on the costly side but that's just my opinion.

The illustrations are Beautiful and definitely make the dishes more mouth-watering. Something I'm a Big fan of in cookbooks.

One way this stands out is that it's the first recipe book I've reviewed to be structured around what everything's cooked in – this large pile of recipes starts with all that's available to make in one saucepan, and it's then on to other implements and containers. So out goes the usual by-the-course or per-ingredient format, and in comes leek and potato soup next to chicken, bacon and mushroom stew next to Thai green curry soup, and so on. Indeed you might be prepared for a lot of Asian influence here – there are several Thai curries and soups in the first chapter alone, and kimchi only follows Tom Yum. I mean yes the stew was French, and we're visiting the Levant with shakshuka too, but I think the Australian derivation of this book is no real surprise.

What might also stand out, depending on your taste and experience, is the no-bull quality here. It was actually refreshing to have no chef talk about how it was a rare Mauritanian goatherd that passed the recipe down to the author, and how – once it was translated from the ancient Crustic – it immediately became a family favourite (although little Billykins prefers it without the saffron-infused queenies, bless her!). You get one sentence to gather the gist of the recipe, the recipe, the relevant picture, and bam – you're either dicing something up or you're on to the next page. I don't need the lifestyle porn of the above-the-title cook, and this doesn't pretend to have one. It's just good, fancy dish after good, fancy dish, and despite my picking Thai derivations out there are many highlights here from around the world.

Despite it being sourced from the test kitchens of an Australian magazine, it deserves quite the global audience – I don't recognise the cut of lamb they mention more often than not, but it only needs a smidge of translation, oh and a few crossed fingers about finding the more esoteric ingredients. It might be a little low on vegetarian dishes, but again the versatility of that there pan is the key here, as well as building up a real repertoire of good, healthy mains – everyone will look the itinerant traveller fresh from their hols when they bring a lot of this to the table. Oh, and it might even get you using a frying pan to make a pastry-topped pie in.

Lots of interesting looking one pot dishes here. The description of the book promised some low carb dishes but it seems to me that the majority are not (though with some tweaking of the ingredients, some could be made lower carb, I suppose.

I liked that there’s a good variety of recipes from all over the world. Some of the ingredient lists look so long to me, but I suppose that is because it could be thought of as a few dishes all lumped into one.

No nutritional info is given, but beautiful photographs of the final product accompany each of the recipes.

I'm a big fan of the Australian Women's Weekly cookbooks. This is a perfect addition to the collection, with plenty of one pot dishes that would be ideal for weeknight cooking! It's really handy to have a one pot option for some classic dishes, especially with some unique twists. I like the look of the Mediterranean fish pie in 1 pan with a bread topping and the pork and pear crackling tray bake! Looking forward to cooking many dishes from this book!