Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Jamie Oliver’s hot and crispy ice-cream parcel is a fried tortilla wrapped around Nutella and vanilla ice cream, served with caramelised banana, maple syrup and a dusting of cinnamon. It takes 4 minutes and serves 1. In Simply Jamie (2024) this sits in his puddings, and the whole joy is the hot-and-cold contrast. Warm crisp …
Jamie Oliver’s speedy salsa spaghetti is a no-cook pasta, made by tossing hot spaghetti through a raw salsa of chopped ripe tomatoes, olives, capers, basil and Parmesan. It comes together in 14 minutes and serves 4. In Simply Jamie (2024) it’s his summer celebration of tomatoes. Nothing gets simmered. The olives, capers and a splash …
Jamie Oliver’s gnarly lamb madras traybake is a whole lamb shoulder rubbed in Madras curry paste and slow-roasted over yellow split peas, red onions and tomatoes. It needs 9 minutes of prep, then 5 hours in the oven, and serves 8. In Simply Jamie (2024) this is share food built for a lazy weekend. The …
Jamie Oliver’s tin-raid fishcakes are quick store-cupboard fishcakes made from tinned tuna, tinned potatoes and sweetcorn, bound with soaked bread, Cheddar and mustard. They fry in 7 minutes, and the whole batch serves 4 in 20. The “tin-raid” is the whole idea in Simply Jamie (2024). Everything comes from a tin or the bread bin, …
Jamie Oliver’s golden miso salmon is a one-tray dinner of salmon fillets in a miso, soy and sesame marinade, grilled hard over asparagus and sugar snap peas. A raw carrot and radish pickle goes on at the end, and the whole thing takes 23 minutes to serve 4. In Simply Jamie (2024) the “golden” is …
Jamie Oliver’s blackened fish tacos are chunks of white fish coated in a smoky umami paste, charred hard, then stacked in soft corn tortillas. They come with a pineapple crema and charred spring onions, and the whole thing takes 30 minutes to make four. The recipe is actually Ixta Belfrage’s, cooked on Jamie’s series Fast …
Jamie Oliver’s strawberry and balsamic tart is a rustic, free-form tart of whole strawberries tossed in balsamic, caster sugar and cornflour, piled onto sweet shortcrust over a layer of ground almonds. It bakes in 25 minutes and serves 6. In Simply Jamie (2024) he calls it a “scruffy free-form tart”, and scruffy is the point. …
Jamie Oliver’s sweet shortcrust pastry is a rich, crumbly base made with plain flour, icing sugar, cold butter, eggs and vanilla bean paste. It comes together in 10 minutes and makes about 1kg, enough for two tarts or pies. He calls it “reliable” in Simply Jamie (2024), and the name is really a promise about …
Jamie Oliver’s harissa butter beans fries sliced garlic and parsley stalks in olive oil until golden, pours in a tin of butter beans with all their liquid, stirs in harissa paste, and simmers everything until the starchy bean juice thickens into a silky, spicy sauce. Finished with lemon and chopped parsley. Five ingredients, 12 minutes, …
Jamie Oliver’s Sichuan pepper beef brisket rubs a kilo of unrolled brisket with ground Sichuan peppercorns and Chinese five-spice, sits it on a bed of onions, orange juice, garlic, ginger, soy, balsamic and honey, covers it tightly and slow-roasts at 140°C for 3 hours until it falls apart. You pull the meat in the tray, …
