Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Jamie Oliver’s chicken and sausage stew fries diced chicken breast, halved sausages and pancetta golden, simmers them in tinned cherry tomatoes and borlotti beans with purple sprouting broccoli, then tops the whole pan with rosemary-garlic sourdough chunks and grills it until golden and bubbling. It serves two, takes 20 minutes, and comes in at 862 …
Jamie Oliver’s Thai hot and sour chicken soup simmers diced chicken thighs, oyster mushrooms and ginger in Thai red curry paste and coconut milk, drops in egg noodles, sugar snaps and edamame, then finishes with crunchy peanut and sesame chilli oil and a squeeze of lime. It serves four, takes 20 minutes, and comes in …
Nigella Lawson’s meatballs with orzo is a cosy one-pot dinner where beef and Parmesan meatballs poach in a tomato and vermouth sauce, then the orzo cooks right in the same pan until it’s plump and saucy. It makes about 30 small meatballs, serves four to six, and comes together in a single casserole with nothing …
Nigella Lawson’s chicken in a pot with lemon and orzo is a one-pot poached chicken cooked whole with leeks, carrots, lemon and tarragon, then finished with orzo swelling in the broth. A 1.5kg bird sits in 1.5 litres of water at 180°C (160°C fan) for 1¼ hours, then 15 minutes more once the orzo goes …