Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Mary Berry’s heavenly lemon cheesecake on a ginger crust is a five-ingredient, no-bake dessert made with mascarpone, lemon curd and a ginger biscuit base. It chills in a 20cm (8 in) loose-bottomed tin for 4-24 hours and serves 8. Berry first published this in Cook Up a Feast (2010) with Lucy Young. The headnote says …
Mary Berry’s sharp lemon cheesecake is a no-bake dessert set with lemon jelly, made with soft cheese, caster sugar and whipped cream on a Hob Nob base. It chills in a 20cm (8 in) tin and serves 8. Berry calls this “a very smooth, fresh cheesecake” and “the second easiest to make” in the Ultimate …
Mary Berry’s easy lemon cheesecake is a no-bake dessert made with condensed milk, soft cheese and 3 large lemons on a digestive biscuit base. It chills for 3-4 hours or overnight and serves 8. Berry calls this “an excellent quick cheesecake, always popular with the family” in the Ultimate Cake Book (2003). There’s no gelatine …
Mary Berry’s Spiced Dorset Apple Traybake is a muscovado sponge layered with sliced Bramley apples and cinnamon. It bakes at 180°C (160°C fan/Gas 4) for 40 minutes in a 30 × 23cm tin. It serves 12. Berry says in Cooks the Perfect (2014) it “makes a comforting pudding, served warm with clotted cream.” She adds …
Mary Berry’s apple and cinnamon loaf cake is a moist sponge made with diced dessert apples, muscovado sugar and cinnamon, brushed with warm apricot jam. It bakes in two 450g loaf tins at 180°C (160°C fan/Gas 4) for 40-45 minutes. Berry says in Mary Berry Cooks (2014) “this is a lovely moist loaf, which I …
Mary Berry’s toffee apple steamed pudding is a buttery sponge steamed over muscovado toffee sauce and chopped dessert apples. It cooks in a 1-litre pudding basin for 1½ hours, using 200g each of butter and light muscovado sugar for the sauce. In Mary Berry at Home, she notes the mixture “will also fill six timbale …
Hairy Bikers Spanish chicken bake is a one-tin roast of chicken thighs, chorizo, new potatoes, tomatoes and peppers with smoked paprika and oregano. It serves 4 at 370 calories per serving and bakes in three 20-minute stages over an hour. This comes from the Hairy Dieters series, and the headnote says “you’d think this dish …
Hairy Bikers jambalaya is a one-pan Creole rice dish with chicken thighs, chorizo and king prawns in a spiced tomato sauce. It serves 6 at 341 calories per serving and cooks in about 35 minutes. This comes from The Hairy Dieters (2012), and Si and Dave call it “a sort of Creole paella.” The diet …
Hairy Bikers beef goulash is a slow-braised chuck steak stew with three peppers and two paprikas, cooked in the oven for 2½ hours. It serves 6 at 306 calories per serving with just 1 tablespoon of oil for a whole kilo of beef. This comes from the Hairy Dieters series, and Si and Dave call …
Hairy Bikers prawn korma is a creamy, mild curry with tiger prawns in a blitzed onion and ginger sauce, finished with a splash of cream. It serves 4 at just 205 calories per serving and takes under 30 minutes from start to finish. This comes from The Hairy Dieters: Eat for Life (2013), and Si …
