Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s old-fashioned sandwich loaf is a soft, tender-crumbed white tin loaf made with strong bread flour and spoilt milk, needing only three 10-second knocks of kneading. It makes one loaf, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She reaches for it when she wants a slice of old-school, tender-crumbed bread rather than her usual crackle-crusted …
Nigella Lawson’s rum-spiked French toast is slightly stale white bread steeped in a rum, egg and brown sugar custard, fried in butter and doused in a golden-syrup-and-rum syrup. It serves 2, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She calls it her favourite French toast of all time, one she doesn’t make nearly enough. It came …
Nigella Lawson’s toasted marshmallow and rhubarb cake is two light golden sponges sandwiched with sharp roasted rhubarb, wrapped in a fluffy marshmallow meringue frosting that’s scorched with a blowtorch. It cuts into 10 slices, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She calls it the newest, most exciting addition to her rhubarb repertoire: splendidly celebratory but …
Nigella Lawson’s mine-all-mine sweet and salty chocolate cookies are deeply chocolatey biscuits sprinkled with sea salt, made in a batch of just two. It’s a mix-by-hand recipe for one, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She created it for the lone-dweller facing the unsatisfactory choice of doing without a freshly baked biscuit or making a …
Nigella Lawson’s gluten-free banana bread is a tender, light loaf made with rice flour and ground almonds, sweetened with very ripe bananas and studded with chunky walnuts and dark chocolate. It cuts into 10 to 12 slices, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She calls it a promise finally kept, and one she took her …
Nigella Lawson’s fish finger bhorta is soft-cooked onions with garlic, ginger and chilli, spiked with mustard, then crisp fish fingers mashed in with spinach, coriander and lime, topped with pink-pickled onions. It’s a comfort-food supper for 2, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She’s the first to admit she never expected to put a fish …
Nigella Lawson’s fear-free fish stew is chunks of firm white fish gently cooked in a spiced tomato and sweet potato sauce, fragrant with mace, ginger, turmeric and cumin. The sauce takes about an hour, the fish only minutes, and it serves 4, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She wrote it, in her words, to …
Nigella Lawson’s crab mac ‘n’ cheese is a luxurious pasta of shell pasta in a smoky Gruyère cheese sauce studded with white and brown crab meat. It’s a rich but delicate dish for 2, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She calls it the most luscious of treats, rich yet somehow delicate, like a cross …
Nigella Lawson’s burnt onion and aubergine dip is a smoky, silky vegan dip of roasted aubergine, scorched onions and caramelised garlic, blitzed with tahini, cumin, smoked paprika, lemon and mint. It makes about 600ml, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. It’s the very first recipe in her “A Loving Defence of Brown Food” chapter, and …
Nigella Lawson’s brown butter colcannon is her take on the Irish classic of mashed potato and kale, enriched with a generous amount of butter cooked to a deep, nutty brown. It uses skin-on potatoes, full-fat milk and spring onions, and serves 4 to 6. In Cook, Eat, Repeat (2020) she says every form of mashed …