Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate chip cookie dough pots are individual ramekins of chocolate chip cookie dough baked just until the tops set, leaving a gooey middle to eat with a spoon. It serves 6, from her book Simply Nigella. She created them because her children love a chocolate chip cookie so gooey inside that she can’t …
Nigella Lawson’s butterscotch pots are silky, richly smooth caramel custard puddings made from a smoky home-made butterscotch stirred into a cornflour-and-egg custard, then chilled. They serve 2, from her book At My Table. She traces them to a childhood treat beyond measure, butterscotch Angel Delight, the chemical-tasting packet mousse. As she admits, her fondness for …
Jamie Oliver’s fig tart is a no-cook dessert with a blitzed fruit-and-nut base, a vanilla Greek yoghurt filling and fresh figs, finished with honey. It’s a five-ingredient, briefly-frozen tart that serves 8 in 10 minutes plus freezing. In 5 Ingredients Mediterranean (2023) the whole point is a show-stopping dessert with no baking and barely any …
Jamie Oliver’s lemon curd tart is a citrus-swirled puff pastry case filled with a fresh stovetop lemon curd and topped with raspberries. It’s a five-ingredient dessert that serves 6 in 30 minutes. In 5 Ingredients Mediterranean (2023) the clever part is the pastry. You dust ready-rolled puff with icing sugar and lemon zest, roll it …
Jamie Oliver’s apple tart is a rustic French-style tart of thinly sliced apples glazed with apricot jam on a sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry, scattered with almonds. It serves 8 and takes 50 minutes. In 5 Ingredients Mediterranean (2023) he models it on the little tartelettes in French pâtisseries, but keeps it easy with shop-bought …
Jamie Oliver’s banoffee fro-yo tart is a no-bake reimagining of banoffee pie: a date and almond base layered with caramel, lime-tossed banana and vanilla Greek yoghurt, then briefly frozen. It’s gluten-free and serves 10, in 15 minutes. In Simply Jamie (2024) the twist is that nothing is cooked and there’s no pastry. The base is …
Jamie Oliver’s chocolate cake is a flourless, five-ingredient sponge of dark chocolate, butter, eggs, golden caster sugar and cocoa, baked in a tray in 15 minutes. It’s gluten-free and serves 16. In Simply Jamie (2024) this isn’t a finished iced cake but a base, built to become other puddings. Jamie bakes it, then turns it …
Nigella Lawson’s no-churn matcha ice cream is a three-ingredient frozen dessert made by whisking condensed milk, double cream and green tea powder into a whipped green cream, then freezing overnight. There’s no ice cream maker, no custard and no churning, just a bowl and a whisk, and it sets into a scoopable litre of ice …