Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s fish finger bhorta cooks onions, chilli, ginger and garlic down soft, then folds oven-crisped fish fingers through the pan with English mustard, spinach, lime and coriander. The fish fingers bake at 220°C for 20 to 25 minutes, and it serves two with leftovers. The recipe isn’t hers by invention, and she says so …
Nigella Lawson’s spaghetti carbonara tosses spaghetti with crisp pancetta, egg yolk, a whole egg and parmesan, loosened by a splash of dry white vermouth reduced down with the bacon fat. It serves two, or one very hungry person, in about 15 minutes. She calls it her favourite, “along with all my other favourites,” in How …
Nigella Lawson’s brownies are a big-batch traybake with a crinkled, paler top and a dark, dense, gooey middle, built on dark chocolate, butter, walnuts and six eggs. They bake at 180°C for about 25 minutes and cut into 48. She frames them as a birthday cake in How To Be A Domestic Goddess (2000), an …