Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Jamie Oliver’s pizza fritte duo makes a quick self-raising flour dough, rolls it into thin rounds and shallow-fries them until puffed and golden, then tops two with a broad bean, lemon and mozzarella smash and the other two with a raw grated-tomato sauce and pecorino. Four fried pizzas for two people, 20 minutes, 506 kcal …
Jamie Oliver’s zesty salmon tacos fry lime-zested salmon fillets golden, then pile them into warm corn tortillas with a blitzed sweetcorn salsa, chipotle-dressed cabbage, sliced avocado and tomato, finished with soured cream and coriander. Six tacos for two, 20 minutes, 561 kcal a serving. The recipe is from Jamie’s 20-Minute Meals (2012). The sweetcorn salsa …
Jamie Oliver’s chicken and sausage stew fries diced chicken breast, halved sausages and pancetta golden, simmers them in tinned cherry tomatoes and borlotti beans with purple sprouting broccoli, then tops the whole pan with rosemary-garlic sourdough chunks and grills it until golden and bubbling. It serves two, takes 20 minutes, and comes in at 862 …
Jamie Oliver’s Thai hot and sour chicken soup simmers diced chicken thighs, oyster mushrooms and ginger in Thai red curry paste and coconut milk, drops in egg noodles, sugar snaps and edamame, then finishes with crunchy peanut and sesame chilli oil and a squeeze of lime. It serves four, takes 20 minutes, and comes in …
Jamie Oliver’s pea, paneer and potato curry fries golden paneer and chillies, simmers microwaved diced potatoes in Kerala-style curry paste, then stirs through a blitzed sauce of frozen peas, yoghurt and coriander. It serves two over ginger-fried rice with a crispy bottom, takes 20 minutes, and comes in at 865 kcal, a proper filling vegetarian …
Jamie Oliver’s sticky orange chicken poaches seasoned chicken breasts on a bed of onion petals, then fries them in olive oil with crispy rosemary, orange marmalade and a flambéed brandy glaze, served with microwaved sweet potato mash, dressed watercress and a spoonful of Greek yoghurt. It serves two, takes 20 minutes, and comes in at …
Jamie Oliver’s tomato and feta lentils simmers tinned lentils in a thick sauce of fresh tomatoes and blitzed roasted red peppers with garlic and chilli, then scatters the top with crumbled feta, pomegranate seeds, pistachios and dill. It serves four with warm flatbreads, takes 20 minutes, and comes in at 519 kcal. There’s no meat, …
Jamie Oliver’s pressure cooker bolognese browns beef mince and frozen soffritto with rosemary, garlic, tomato purée, red wine, tinned lentils and porcini, clamps on the lid, and pressure-cooks the lot in 10 minutes flat. The pasta boils alongside, and everything tosses together with Parmesan for a weeknight dinner in 20 minutes. It serves four at …
Jamie Oliver’s bread and borlotti bean soup is a thick, rustic Italian ribollita-style soup that cooks frozen soffritto, tinned tomatoes, tinned borlotti beans and chunks of stale sourdough together in stock, then tops it with torn mozzarella and grills it bubbling. It takes 20 minutes from start to table, serves six, and comes in at …