Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s red cabbage with cranberries is a long-braised, spiced red cabbage cooked with red onion, apple juice, cinnamon, cloves and a double hit of cranberries. It serves 8 to 10, from her book At My Table. She describes the sweetness of the braised cabbage as perfectly punctuated by the cheek-squeaky sharpness of the cranberries. …
Nigella Lawson’s chicken barley is a thick, creamy one-pot pottage of chicken thighs, pearl barley and root vegetables simmered in mustardy stock. It serves 4 to 6, from her book At My Table. She describes it as somewhere cosily between a stew and a slightly soupy, sticky risotto, offering instant comfort. It’s the sort of …
Jamie Oliver’s chicken in baked bread sauce nestles skin-on chicken thighs and bacon into a tray of torn bread soaked in milk, eggs, mustard, nutmeg and cloves, then bakes the whole thing at 180°C for 50 minutes until golden. The bread absorbs the chicken juices and sets into a savoury, custardy, spiced base. It serves …
Nigella Lawson’s New Year doughnuts are Dutch oliebollen, little yeasted dough balls made with a nutmeg-and-lemon-scented batter, fried at 180°C for about 5 minutes until crisp outside and soft within, then dusted with icing sugar. The batter proves for around 1¼ hours. She frames them in Cook, Eat, Repeat (2020) as her way of celebrating …