Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s jewelled salad is a finely chopped salad of courgette, cucumber, tomato and herbs, studded with pomegranate seeds and dressed with lemon and olive oil. It serves 4 to 6, from her book At My Table. She calls it chopped salad at home, a long way from the American classic and, at its starting …
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate cake with coffee buttercream is a moist, fudgy two-layer chocolate sponge, deepened with espresso and sandwiched and topped with a smooth coffee buttercream. It cuts into 8 to 12 slices, from her book At My Table. She calls it reassuringly easy and very popular in her house, needing nothing more taxing than …
Nigella Lawson’s chilli cheese garlic bread is a pull-apart loaf filled with a chilli-and-garlic butter and gooey mozzarella, baked crisp in foil. It makes about 10 slices, from her book At My Table. She calls it a more robust version of the damp, bendy garlic bread that dominated her eating life in the ’70s and …
Nigella Lawson’s chicken with red grapes and Marsala is a pan-roasted chicken supper for two, with golden crisp-skinned chicken, sweet roasted grapes and a mustardy Marsala sauce scented with thyme. It serves 2, from her book At My Table. She calls it the perfect autumnal supper, brimming with mellow fruitfulness, the muskiness of the Marsala …
Nigella Lawson’s chicken and pea traybake roasts bone-in chicken thighs over a bed of frozen peas and leeks with garlic, vermouth and dill. It serves 4, from her book At My Table. The clever idea came from her friend, cook Alex Andreou: use the peas straight from frozen as the bottom layer. It takes a …
Nigella Lawson’s butternut and sweet potato curry is a rich, vibrant vegan curry of sweet potato and squash simmered in a fresh-blitzed chilli, ginger and turmeric paste with coconut milk and tomatoes. It serves 4 to 6, from her book At My Table. She calls it rambunctiously vibrant, both to look at and to eat: …
Nigella Lawson’s devilled eggs are halved boiled eggs filled with a smooth, piped yolk mixture spiked with mustard, Tabasco and paprika. The recipe makes 18, from her book At My Table. She’s unashamedly devoted to them, calling them retro but no exercise in irony. They’re one of the few things that get her reaching for …
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate olive oil mousse is a voluptuously soft, rich dark chocolate mousse made with extra virgin olive oil in place of cream or butter. It’s a five-ingredient, no-cook dessert for 6, from her book At My Table. She first tasted a version at Morito in London, one of her favourite places to eat, …
Nigella Lawson’s waffles are light, crisp waffles made from a batter lifted with whisked egg whites, served with maple syrup and berries. The batch makes about 20 small square waffles, from her book At My Table. She confesses she caved and bought a waffle iron after being distracted by all the waffle-eating in an American …
Nigella Lawson’s butterscotch pots are silky, richly smooth caramel custard puddings made from a smoky home-made butterscotch stirred into a cornflour-and-egg custard, then chilled. They serve 2, from her book At My Table. She traces them to a childhood treat beyond measure, butterscotch Angel Delight, the chemical-tasting packet mousse. As she admits, her fondness for …
