Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Jamie Oliver’s yoghurt panna cotta is a set vanilla cream lightened with Greek-style yoghurt, topped with elderflower strawberries, baby mint and crushed biscuits. It serves 12, from his book Together (2021). Jamie calls these “so utterly easy to make and great for a party”. The cream and yoghurt blend keeps them fresh rather than heavy, …
Nigella Lawson’s rose and pepper pavlova is a marshmallow-bellied meringue subtly spiced with black pepper and rosewater, topped with whipped cream, passionfruit-macerated strawberries and their juice. It serves 8 to 12, from her book At My Table. The flavours sound bold but taste delicate. The idea came from her maternal grandfather, who ate strawberries with …
Jamie Oliver’s strawberry and balsamic tart is a rustic, free-form tart of whole strawberries tossed in balsamic, caster sugar and cornflour, piled onto sweet shortcrust over a layer of ground almonds. It bakes in 25 minutes and serves 6. In Simply Jamie (2024) he calls it a “scruffy free-form tart”, and scruffy is the point. …
James Martin’s cherry trifle layers cherry-brandy-soaked Madeira cake, brandy-poached cherries, and whipped cream folded through vanilla custard, finished with grated white chocolate and glossy caramel-dipped cherries. There’s no baking beyond a quick cherry compote and a batch of caramel, and it makes a generous summer centrepiece for twelve to fourteen. The recipe comes from BBC’s …