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Nigella Lawson recipes from her books and TV shows, cooked at home. Indulgent, unfussy food with real portions and no pretending it takes 10 minutes.
Nigella Lawson’s Parmesan shortbreads are little savoury cheese biscuits made from just four ingredients: flour, Parmesan, butter and an egg yolk, sliced from a chilled log and baked pale gold. It makes 35 to 40, from her book Nigellissima. The recipe reached her, she says, from Australia via Brazil. A Brazilian friend, Helio Fenerich, the …
Nigella Lawson’s panettone stuffing squares are savoury Christmas canapés: panettone blitzed with pancetta, apple, shallot, chestnut, sage and lemon, baked in a tray and cut into little squares like savoury brownies. It makes 48 small squares, from her book Nigellissima. She’s written a panettone stuffing before (the fruit bread cubed, toasted and mixed with Italian …
Nigella Lawson’s meringue gelato cake is a no-churn frozen dessert: whipped cream folded with dark chocolate splinters, liqueur and crushed meringue nests, frozen in a loaf tin and sliced into slabs with a warm chocolate sauce. It yields 6 to 8 slices, from her book Nigellissima. It has unusually literary roots. She found it in …
Nigella Lawson’s gnocchi gratin is a quick, indulgent side of shop-bought gnocchi coated in a mascarpone and Parmesan sauce, topped with breadcrumbs and baked until bubbling and golden. It serves 6 as a side, from her book Nigellissima. She makes it, for preference, with the so-called freshly made gnocchi from the supermarket chill cabinet. They …
Nigella Lawson’s Italian Christmas pudding cake is a no-bake, tiramisu-style layered cake of liqueur-soaked panettone and a mascarpone cream studded with chocolate, marrons glacés and pistachios, jewelled with pomegranate. It yields 12 to 14 slices, from her book Nigellissima. She describes it as her own recipe but a conflation of a couple of Italian Christmas …
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate salame is a no-bake chocolate fridge log studded with amaretti, almonds, hazelnuts and pistachios, dusted with icing sugar and tied up with string to look like a real salame. It makes about 20 generous slices, from her book Nigellissima. She’s met quite a few versions in Italy and concluded it’s really an …
Nigella Lawson’s chicken with tarragon salsa verde is roasted skin-on chicken breasts, sliced and dressed with a bright, blended green sauce of tarragon, parsley, spring onion, lemon and olive oil. It serves 6 to 8, from her book Nigellissima. She explains that tarragon, the gorgeously named “dragoncello”, is actually little used in Italy despite the …
Nigella Lawson’s cappuccino pavlova is a coffee meringue, espresso powder whisked into a marshmallowy pavlova base, topped with softly whipped cream and a cappuccino-style dusting of cocoa. It yields 8 to 10 slices, from her book Nigellissima. She’s inordinately proud of this one, and not ashamed to say so. A self-confessed “pava-holic”, she calls it …
Nigella Lawson’s baby aubergines with oregano and red onion are halved baby aubergines roasted with olive oil and dried oregano, then topped with vinegar-pickled red onions in a garlicky dressing. It serves 6 as a side, from her book Nigellissima. It comes from a memory. In the south of Italy she ate aubergines roughly chopped, …
Nigella Lawson’s yogurt pot cake is a plain Italian ciambella, a lemon-and-vanilla ring cake where an empty yogurt pot measures out every ingredient. It yields 16 slices, from her book Nigellissima. She says if there’s a family in Italy without a recipe for yogurt pot cake, she’s yet to meet them, and she loves this …