Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s bitter orange tart is a sharp, silky Seville orange curd set in a no-bake gingernut biscuit base, served with a drizzle of honey. It cuts into 10 to 14 slices, from her book Simply Nigella. She makes the most of the short Seville orange season (December to February), when, she says, the tart …
Nigella Lawson’s chilli cheese garlic bread is a pull-apart loaf filled with a chilli-and-garlic butter and gooey mozzarella, baked crisp in foil. It makes about 10 slices, from her book At My Table. She calls it a more robust version of the damp, bendy garlic bread that dominated her eating life in the ’70s and …
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 spiced bulgur wheat with roast vegetables is a vegan dish of orange-and-spice-scented bulgur and red lentils, topped with roasted leeks, peppers, tomatoes and radishes. It serves 3 to 4 as a main. In Cook, Eat, Repeat (2020) she calls it one of her most repeated suppers, in constant rotation and never tiring. She …
Jamie Oliver’s feta filo turnovers are crisp pan-fried filo parcels stuffed with feta and marjoram, drizzled with honey and scattered with pistachios. It’s a five-ingredient vegetarian dish that serves 4 in 20 minutes. In 5 Ingredients Mediterranean (2023) he traces them to a teenage holiday in Cyprus, where he saw feta cooked rather than just …
Jamie Oliver’s green chilli salsa is a three-ingredient blender salsa of jarred jalapeños, fresh mint and honey, blitzed smooth in about a minute. It makes a jarful, enough for 10-plus servings, and keeps for a week. In Simply Jamie (2024) he calls it a “dirty little secret” he makes at home, turning a shop jar …
Meliz Berg’s halloumi spiced scrambled eggs, adapted for Jamie: Fast and Simple, cooks a slow-caramelised onion base with Turkish green peppers and sweet red pepper paste, simmers in grated fresh tomato with dried mint, then pours in unwhisked eggs and swirls them through just until set. Crispy fried halloumi cubes and finely grated halloumi go …
Jamie Oliver’s broccoli soup and cheesy soldiers air-fries frozen broccoli and spring onions until soft, blitzes them in the drawer with Cheddar, a stock cube, parsley and boiling water, then heats the soup through for a final 5 minutes. Cheesy, seed-crusted toast soldiers cook in the small drawer alongside. It serves two in 28 minutes …
Jamie Oliver’s sweet potato and black bean tacos air-fry Cajun-spiced sweet potato chunks above black beans simmering in the drawer below, then pile both into warm tortillas with a watermelon salsa, crumbled feta and coriander. Vegetarian, serves two, 42 minutes, 614 kcal. The air fryer cooks both components at once without a separate pan. The …
Jamie Oliver’s grilled green grain salad chars asparagus, tenderstem broccoli, green beans, spring onions and green chillies on the barbecue, chops them and tosses them through cooked mixed grains with a blitzed green dressing of avocado, mint, parsley, charred chilli and lemon. Finished with feta and pumpkin seeds. Six servings, 25 minutes, 296 kcal. The …