Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s chicken with red grapes and Marsala is a pan-roasted chicken supper for two, with golden crisp-skinned chicken, sweet roasted grapes and a mustardy Marsala sauce scented with thyme. It serves 2, from her book At My Table. She calls it the perfect autumnal supper, brimming with mellow fruitfulness, the muskiness of the Marsala …
Nigella Lawson’s chicken and pea traybake roasts bone-in chicken thighs over a bed of frozen peas and leeks with garlic, vermouth and dill. It serves 4, from her book At My Table. The clever idea came from her friend, cook Alex Andreou: use the peas straight from frozen as the bottom layer. It takes a …
Nigella Lawson’s butternut and sweet potato curry is a rich, vibrant vegan curry of sweet potato and squash simmered in a fresh-blitzed chilli, ginger and turmeric paste with coconut milk and tomatoes. It serves 4 to 6, from her book At My Table. She calls it rambunctiously vibrant, both to look at and to eat: …
Nigella Lawson’s devilled eggs are halved boiled eggs filled with a smooth, piped yolk mixture spiked with mustard, Tabasco and paprika. The recipe makes 18, from her book At My Table. She’s unashamedly devoted to them, calling them retro but no exercise in irony. They’re one of the few things that get her reaching for …
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate olive oil mousse is a voluptuously soft, rich dark chocolate mousse made with extra virgin olive oil in place of cream or butter. It’s a five-ingredient, no-cook dessert for 6, from her book At My Table. She first tasted a version at Morito in London, one of her favourite places to eat, …
Nigella Lawson’s waffles are light, crisp waffles made from a batter lifted with whisked egg whites, served with maple syrup and berries. The batch makes about 20 small square waffles, from her book At My Table. She confesses she caved and bought a waffle iron after being distracted by all the waffle-eating in an American …
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 …
Nigella Lawson’s old-fashioned sandwich loaf is a soft, tender-crumbed white tin loaf made with strong bread flour and spoilt milk, needing only three 10-second knocks of kneading. It makes one loaf, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She reaches for it when she wants a slice of old-school, tender-crumbed bread rather than her usual crackle-crusted …
Nigella Lawson’s rum-spiked French toast is slightly stale white bread steeped in a rum, egg and brown sugar custard, fried in butter and doused in a golden-syrup-and-rum syrup. It serves 2, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She calls it her favourite French toast of all time, one she doesn’t make nearly enough. It came …
Nigella Lawson’s toasted marshmallow and rhubarb cake is two light golden sponges sandwiched with sharp roasted rhubarb, wrapped in a fluffy marshmallow meringue frosting that’s scorched with a blowtorch. It cuts into 10 slices, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She calls it the newest, most exciting addition to her rhubarb repertoire: splendidly celebratory but …