The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club: July 2025

The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club: February 2018

The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club: July 2025

1 July 2025

Welcome to the Great British Chefs Cookbook Club! Find out how it works, how to get involved and what prizes you can win.

The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club: July 2025

Welcome to the Great British Chefs Cookbook Club! Find out how it works, how to get involved and what prizes you can win.

Even with the vast number of recipes available on the internet these days, there’s nothing quite like leafing through a beautiful book full of recipes. It’s a medium that’s stronger than ever before, with cookbooks topping bestseller charts throughout the year. If you’re anything like us then you’ll have shelves upon shelves of them in your home – some kept in pristine condition, others earmarked, stained and scrawled over after years of use.

It’s this national love for cookbooks that has prompted us to start our very own cookbook club. Each month we’ll select a cookbook that we think stands out from the rest and ask you, the Great British Chefs community, to cook a recipe from it. We’ll publish a small selection of recipes on our site so, even if you don’t already have the book, you can still get involved and see how your cooking compares to everyone else’s. Apply to join the Facebook group here and take a look at this month's book (and recipes) below. We've also included the winning post from last month's book, as well as some of our other favourite entries.

Apply to join the Cookbook Club today!

Click here to apply to join our cookbook club, meet like-minded home cooks and share your creations for the chance to win prizes. Please make sure to answer the two simple introductory questions to speed up your application.

This month's cookbook is Flavour Heroes

This month we're going to be cooking from Flavour Heroes by Gurdeep Loyal. We adore this book, in which Gurdeep - an award-winning food and travel writer and columnist – takes 15 of his favourite global pantry staple ingredients and inspires us to play around with them to create dishes you'll want to make again and again. If you've been wanting to shake up your cooking but not sure where to start, this is the book for you!

Treacle, mocha and blonde chocolate brownies

Harissa keema shakshuka with naan soldiers

Cacio e pepe risotto with brown-butter lemons

Last month's winners

In June we cooked dishes from across Great British Chefs' own range of cookbooks. A huge congratulations to June's cookbook club winner Mike Jones who wins a prize. Take a look at Mike's entry below as well as those from our runners up!

Mike Jones cooked this absolutely stunning toasted oat, rhubarb and cardamom frangipane tart from Around the Table. The rhubarb is so perfectly tiled, it feels like a shame to have to eat it!
Yvonne Harris made Baja Fish Tacos by Santiago Lastra from around the table. The light in this shot is just amazing, and that fish looks perfectly crisp!
Kim Lesley Ferris has made this gorgeous dish from Josh Eggleton in GBC Vegetables. It's perfect for spring, made with plenty of charred asparagus
Anne Strachan made José Pizarro’s octopus with baby potatoes Great British Chef’s 120 Recipes. The words mouthwatering were really made for this dish!
Of course, it being June, strawberries had to make an appearance! Lizz Rennie made this Deconstructed Strawberry Cheesecake with Honey Crisp Toast from Great British Chefs 120 Recipes. Allegedly a dessert we could also imagine having this for an indulgent breakfast.
Helen Sara Knott made The Book of St John's Braised Beef Shin. We love the idea of serving this with polenta for a super comforting supper.
Theresa Mentz made a gorgeous Pork Belly Vindaloo by Alfred Prasad from GBC Hacks, with crisped up pork crackling added on top.

Make sure you post photos along with commentary of the dishes you cook this month in our Facebook group to be in with the chance of winning.