Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Jamie Oliver’s spiced dust is cocoa powder and icing sugar pounded with cinnamon, coriander seeds, allspice and a dried red chilli. It’s a sweet, gently warming topping for desserts, from his book Together (2021). On jamieoliver.com it sits with his taco party recipes, and the flavours fit. Chocolate, chilli and warm spice are a classic …
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 halloumi with chilli is a four-ingredient sharing plate: slices of salty halloumi dry-fried until golden, then doused in a chilli-steeped olive oil and finished with a squeeze of lemon. It uses two 250g packets of cheese, takes under 10 minutes, and makes about 30 pieces for people to graze on, drink in hand. …