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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 no-churn brandied pumpkin ice cream is a spiced, warm-flavoured ice cream made from pumpkin purée, condensed milk, cream, nutmeg and brandy, with no ice-cream maker needed. It makes about 1 litre, from her book Simply Nigella. It was born from leftovers: having made her Pumpkin Bundt Cake, she had a little pumpkin purée …
Nigella Lawson’s honey pie is a rich, salty-sweet honey custard baked in an easy no-roll olive oil crust, finished with a scatter of sea salt flakes. It cuts into 14 modest slices, from her book Simply Nigella. She adapted it from the Salty Honey Pie in the Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book, saying she …
Nigella Lawson’s cucumber, chilli and avocado salad is a cool, fresh salad of juicy cucumber and creamy avocado with green chilli, coriander, lime and olive oil. It serves 4 to 6, from her book Simply Nigella. She warns against being lulled by its soothing greenness, the salving avocado and juicy cucumber, likening you to poor …
Nigella Lawson’s crunchy chicken cutlets are flattened chicken escalopes coated in mustard, cinnamon and crushed cornflakes, fried crisp and served with rocket, tomatoes and lemon. It serves 2, from her book Simply Nigella. She says she could have called them Cornflake-Crunchy Chicken Cutlets, since the crisp coating comes not from breadcrumbs but from cornflakes. That’s …
Nigella Lawson’s drunken noodles are a pared-back, searingly hot plate of rice noodles tossed in a ginger, garlic, lime, soy and chilli seasoning. It serves 2 (or one greedy person) in 10 minutes, from her book Simply Nigella. The usual explanation for the name, she notes, is that Thai drunken noodles have enough chilli to …
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate chip cookie dough pots are individual ramekins of chocolate chip cookie dough baked just until the tops set, leaving a gooey middle to eat with a spoon. It serves 6, from her book Simply Nigella. She created them because her children love a chocolate chip cookie so gooey inside that she can’t …
Nigella Lawson’s chicken traybake with bitter orange and fennel is chicken thighs marinated in orange, fennel seed and mustard, roasted over wedges of fennel until bronzed, with a syrupy pan sauce. It serves 6, from her book Simply Nigella. She’s made it more times than she can count since settling into her kitchen, finding its …
Nigella Lawson’s chicken and wild rice is a warmly spiced one-pot of chicken thighs and wild rice, studded with dried cranberries and cooked in the oven in turmeric-golden stock. It serves 6, from her book Simply Nigella. She’s cooked a version of it for years, and only on returning to a scribbled note recently realised …
Nigella Lawson’s butternut and chickpea soup with bulgur wheat is a comforting, deeply flavoured vegetable soup, spiced with cumin and coriander, sharpened with preserved lemon and thickened with bulgur. It serves 6, from her book Simply Nigella. She calls it a meal of a soup, and describes it as her take on an Italian minestrone …
Nigella Lawson’s bitter orange tart is a sharp, silky Seville orange curd set in a no-bake gingernut biscuit base, served with a drizzle of honey. It cuts into 10 to 14 slices, from her book Simply Nigella. She makes the most of the short Seville orange season (December to February), when, she says, the tart …