Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Jamie Oliver’s banana panettone pudding is torn panettone, sliced banana and chopped Medjool dates baked in a clementine and vanilla custard. A sticky toffee sauce goes over the top, and it serves 12, from his book Together (2021). It’s a festive cross between bread and butter pudding and sticky toffee pudding. The butter isn’t spread …
Nigella Lawson’s Italian Christmas pudding cake is a no-bake, tiramisu-style layered cake of liqueur-soaked panettone and a mascarpone cream studded with chocolate, marrons glacés and pistachios, jewelled with pomegranate. It yields 12 to 14 slices, from her book Nigellissima. She describes it as her own recipe but a conflation of a couple of Italian Christmas …
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate salame is a no-bake chocolate fridge log studded with amaretti, almonds, hazelnuts and pistachios, dusted with icing sugar and tied up with string to look like a real salame. It makes about 20 generous slices, from her book Nigellissima. She’s met quite a few versions in Italy and concluded it’s really an …
Nigella Lawson’s prodigious pavlova is a giant billowing meringue, crisp outside and marshmallow-soft within, piled with softly whipped cream and a tumble of passionfruit, lychees and raspberry sauce. The tropical fruit cuts through the sweetness. It makes 14 generous slices and needs an hour in the oven plus cooling. The recipe is from Nigella Christmas, …