Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s gluten-free apple and blackberry pie is a double-crust fruit pie with a sour-cream gluten-free pastry around spiced bramley apples and blackberries. It serves 6 to 8, from her book Simply Nigella. She explains that her usual approach to gluten-free baking is to leave out flour altogether, as in her gluten-free cakes. But inspired …
Nigella Lawson’s slow-cooked black treacle ham is a boneless gammon coated in black treacle, wrapped in foil and baked very low for 12 to 24 hours, then glazed with treacle, demerara and mustard. It serves 10 to 12 with leftovers, from her book Simply Nigella. She’s clear it doesn’t replace her beloved Ham in Coca-Cola …
Nigella Lawson’s Indian-spiced shepherd’s pie is a cosy twist on the classic: spiced lamb mince with red lentils under a sweet potato mash tempered with lime and ginger juice, scattered with pistachios. It serves 4, from her book Simply Nigella. Her children love it, and she says she doesn’t know anyone who’s eaten it and …
Nigella Lawson’s sweet potato macaroni cheese is a mac and cheese made with mashed sweet potato, feta and mature cheddar in a mustard-spiked white sauce, baked in little pots until bubbling. It serves 4, from her book Simply Nigella. She calls it, flatly, the best macaroni cheese she’s ever eaten, and says the greatness isn’t …
Nigella Lawson’s toasty olive oil granola is a less-sweet, fruit-free granola of oats, nuts and seeds baked with extra virgin olive oil, maple syrup and warm spices. It makes enough to fill a 1.5 litre jar, from her book Simply Nigella. It’s the granola she makes and savours most these days. It has no dried …
Nigella Lawson’s thyme and lemon bundt cake is a tender, buttermilk-rich lemon cake with fresh thyme beaten through the batter, finished with a sherbetty lemon glaze and a scatter of thyme. It cuts into 10 to 14 slices, from her book Simply Nigella. She loves thyme and sprinkles it wantonly in her cooking, but wanted …
Nigella Lawson’s salted chocolate tart is a rich, silky chocolate filling set in a no-bake Oreo biscuit base, flecked with smoked sea salt and served with crème fraîche. It cuts into 14 slices, from her book Simply Nigella. She says she’d always avoided chocolate tarts, not from laziness but because she never felt the pastry …
Nigella Lawson’s massaman beef curry is a slow-cooked beef and potato curry in a rich, mellow coconut sauce with massaman paste, tamarind and sugar. It serves 6, from her book Simply Nigella. Inspired by her Thai travels, it’s one she’s cooked many, many times. She calls it essentially a beef and potato stew, with all …
Nigella Lawson’s flourless peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are made from just a handful of ingredients, no flour, with smooth peanut butter, brown sugar, an egg and dark chocolate chips. The batch makes 16, from her book Simply Nigella. She says she can’t seem to stop making them, and as she makes them, so they …
Nigella Lawson’s pumpkin bundt cake is a moist, warmly spiced cake made with pumpkin purée, brown sugar, orange and cinnamon, baked in a bundt tin and finished with orange glacé icing and grated chocolate. It cuts into 10 to 14 slices, from her book Simply Nigella. She makes no secret of loving a bundt cake: …