Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s simple salsa is a warm, cooked tomato salsa simmered with red onion, garlic, cumin and plenty of jalapeño. It makes enough for 6 to 8 people to dip into over drinks, from her book Simply Nigella. As far as she’s concerned, you can never go wrong with a simple, spiky salsa and a …
Nigella Lawson’s caramelized garlic hummus blitzes chickpeas with tahini, lemon, olive oil and the sweet, soft flesh of a whole roasted garlic bulb into a rich, mellow purée. The garlic roasts at 220°C (gas 7) for 45 minutes, the hummus itself takes minutes in a food processor, and it makes enough for eight people to …
Nigella Lawson’s steak with anchovy elixir is rare rump, sliced thin and dribbled with a grey sauce of salt-packed anchovies, garlic, lemon and olive oil. The steak takes three minutes a side, the elixir about ten minutes, and it makes roughly 350ml. She calls it “the very apogee of anchovydom” in Cook, Eat, Repeat (2020), …