Yotam Ottolenghi and the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen team are launching three new products to their popular ingredients, sauces and spices range at Waitrose.
The range includes a Pilpelchuma sauce, a Libyan Jewish sauce that Yotam has coined the next Harissa, a Sticky Date & Tamarind Sauce and a Roasted Aubergine & Tomato Sauce.
The Ottolenghi range first launched in April this year (2024) with nine products, including a pasta sauce, a Rose & Lemon Harissa, a Shawarma Marinade, a Miso Pesto and blended herbs and spices and was Ottolenghi’s first venture onto supermarket shelves. The range outperformed Waitrose expectations and has been a popular shopping basket staple for customers ever since.
The Ottolenghi team spent years developing the range to ensure the products meet Ottolenghi’s high quality standards, while also being simple to use to deliver showstopping and flavourful dishes at home for family and friends.
The new additions to the range includes:
A smoky and spicy Libyan chilli paste that is a blend of roasted red peppers, garlic, cumin and a fiery hit of chilli. Add a spoonful whenever your dish needs a kick. It’s ideal for enriching sauces and stews, or as a quick coating when roasting vegetables or marinating meat, fish or grilled vegetables. One spoonful, and you’ll wonder how you ever cooked without it.
180g RRP: £4 available at Waitrose, Waitrose.com and Ottolenghi.co.uk.
This is HP sauce, Ottolenghi style. Sweet, tangy and piquant this rich blend of tamarind, dates, ginger and soy works perfectly on a bacon sandwich, for adding depth to stews, or as a base for a salad dressing. Dates bring the sweetness, tamarind adds the tang.
180g RRP: £4 available at Waitrose, Waitrose.com and Ottolenghi.co.uk.
This rich, smoky sauce makes weeknight cooking a little easier. Packed with charred aubergine, ripe tomatoes, and garlic, use it wherever you would a traditional tomato sauce. Toss it with pasta, layer it in a lasagne, or use in a moussaka. Add a sprinkle of feta or some fresh herbs, and dinner is sorted or alternatively simply baked with eggs for a delicious breakfast.
350g RRP: £4.50 available at Waitrose, Waitrose.com and Ottolenghi.co.uk.
Yotam Ottolenghi, comments: “It has been wonderful to see how people have responded to our pastes, sauces, herbs and spices range and how home cooks are exploring new and exciting flavours and combinations in the kitchen. These new products are taking the flavour to the next level and I couldn’t be more excited to get them out into the world
“I am particularly excited for people to taste the Pilpelchuma, a deliciously spicy, pepper, garlic & chilli paste that I love and that I think is going to be the next Harissa.”
Lucy White, World Foods Buyer at Waitrose adds: “The Ottolenghi range has been a great success at Waitrose and the response from our customers has been amazing. The initial range exceeded our expectations and we look forward to hearing what our customers think about these new additions, the Roasted Aubergine & Tomato Pasta Sauce is a personal favourite of mine!”
The Ottolenghi range is available in Waitrose nationwide, www.waitrose.com and www.ottolenghi.co.uk.
