Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Jamie Oliver’s harissa butter beans fries sliced garlic and parsley stalks in olive oil until golden, pours in a tin of butter beans with all their liquid, stirs in harissa paste, and simmers everything until the starchy bean juice thickens into a silky, spicy sauce. Finished with lemon and chopped parsley. Five ingredients, 12 minutes, …
Jamie Oliver’s lemon fish, spuds and spinach sauce air-fries cubed potatoes golden in one drawer while gently cooking lemon-topped white fish above a blitzed spinach, Cheddar and horseradish sauce in the other. The remaining spinach wilts in the potato drawer at the end. Everything comes together in 32 minutes, serves two, and lands at 451 …
Jamie Oliver’s sriracha corn grills whole corn cobs on the barbecue until charred and softened, slices the kernels off, then tosses them in a dressing of mayo, sriracha, lime zest and lime juice with sliced spring onions. Four cobs, 15 minutes, 153 kcal. It’s a side dish, not a main, and Oliver designs it for …
Jamie Oliver’s sticky orange chicken poaches seasoned chicken breasts on a bed of onion petals, then fries them in olive oil with crispy rosemary, orange marmalade and a flambéed brandy glaze, served with microwaved sweet potato mash, dressed watercress and a spoonful of Greek yoghurt. It serves two, takes 20 minutes, and comes in at …
James Martin’s avocado and bacon salad sits crisp fried bacon and ripe chopped avocado on Little Gem lettuce with pan-fried bread croutons, dressed in a sharp lemon, garlic and Dijon dressing. It serves one, takes under 15 minutes, and has no cooking beyond crisping the bacon and toasting the bread. This is Martin at his …
Nigella Lawson’s halloumi with chilli is a four-ingredient sharing plate: slices of salty halloumi dry-fried until golden, then doused in a chilli-steeped olive oil and finished with a squeeze of lemon. It uses two 250g packets of cheese, takes under 10 minutes, and makes about 30 pieces for people to graze on, drink in hand. …