Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s Basque burnt cheesecake is a crustless, deliberately scorched cheesecake of cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, eggs and cornflour, soft under its burnt top, with an optional liquorice sauce. It bakes at 200°C in 50 minutes and cuts into 8 to 12 slices. In Cook, Eat, Repeat (2020) she calls it a total joy: …
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 mango crème brûlée is a silky baked custard of double cream, tinned mango purée, egg yolks, sugar and lime, finished with a torched caramel top. It’s a Ravneet Gill recipe from Jamie: Fast & Simple, and it serves 5 to 6. Ravneet Gill, the pastry chef Jamie calls a “queen of puddings”, created …