Nigella recipes

This is a dish, a family favourite, that I cooked moreorless straight after I’d got off the plane after two months on the road, to signal and celebrate that I was truly home. It’s a simple one pot dish that brings comfort and joy, and it is my pleasure to share that with you. It’s so hard to be utterly precise and specific with this kind of cooking: if you’re feeding small children, for example, you may not want to add the chilli flakes. Similarly, you may want to use just one lemon, rather…

These are some of Nigella's best recipes, from comforting pasta dishes and all-in-one roasting tray suppers, to indulgent desserts and bakes.

I love these more than my children do, they are brilliant for birthday parties.

Nigella Lawson Chocolate Brownies are probably the only brownie recipe you will ever need.

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Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Guinness Cake

I cannot begin to tell you how good these are. There’s not much that can get me squeezing a fancy-nozzled icing bag, but I can’t get enough of these — and nor can those I make them for. Yes, they are retro, but they are no culinary exercise in irony. And while they are a bit fiddly to make, they’re not hard, and they are immensely rewarding. In order to help the yolk keep centred as they cook, I leave them lying on their sides in a dish (rather than sitting upright in their boxes) overnight…

This is the most luscious of treats: rich, to be sure, but somehow delicate at the same time. Smoked paprika and crab (a 50/50 mixture of both white and brown meat) give an almost honeyed depth to the velvety cheese sauce, which is made with nutty and sweet gruyere. The combination is just sumptuous, like a cross between a mac’n’cheese and a bisque. I stray further from tradition in that I use pasta shells rather than macaroni, and I don’t scatter more cheese on top and brown it in the oven…

I love thyme and sprinkle it wantonly in my cooking, but I wanted a cake that relied on it as a leading ingredient, not merely as a decorative flourish. Besides, with a rosemary loaf cake under my belt, I had no doubt that it would work. And it does. Don’t be alarmed at the amount of thyme in the cake batter, as it doesn’t overwhelm. It charms. I’ve specified buttermilk in the ingredients list, but you can use runny plain yogurt in its stead. Or, easier still, make your own buttermilk — my…

This delicious Queen of Puddings recipe by Nigella is a comforting and easy dessert that’s perfect for any occasion. With a creamy custard base, a tangy layer of jam, and a golden, crispy meringue topping, it’s a simple yet indulgent treat. Plus, it’s versatile, so you can use your favorite jam!

I love proper Eastern European black bread, but I must confess that this loaf, although it tastes the part, is hardly traditional, let alone authentic. For one thing, it’s made following the no-knead method, and for another it contains stout — its ferrous tang partnered by black treacle and mellowed by dark muscovado sugar — which makes this recipe something of a louche aberration. But it’s so easy to make, and so wonderful to eat, I don’t think we can let that concern us. The only thing you…

Our lifestyles can be so frenetic that it can be hard to find a moment to step out of the grind and slow down the rhythms. Taking our time to make something good to eat is actually a great way to do this; I'd go so far as to say, it's a form of recovery. This recipe is gentle and warming and perfect for those slower, darker nights at home. I like to use whole shin of beef on the bone. Ask your butcher for it, I find it's the best cut for cooking in this way.

Nigella Fish Finger Bhorta is made with frozen fish fingers, regular onions, red chillies, garlic, fresh ginger, cold-pressed rapeseed oil, English mustard, Maldon sea salt flakes, young spinach, lime, and fresh coriander. This tasty Fish Finger Bhorta recipe creates a delicious dinner that takes about 45 minutes to prepare and can serve up to 4 people.

In this category, you will find all Nigella Lawson Dessert Recipes.

I make this gratin, for preference, with the so-called freshly made kind of gnocchi that can be found in the chill cabinet of the supermarket. They come (or do near me) in packets of 400g but, if you find them in packets of 500g, simply use two of those instead. I have even used three 400g-packets of gnocchi with the same amount of sauce without trouble. As for the sauce: I mix the mascarpone and milk in a bowl first — otherwise I risk spraying my stove with everything — but if you're…

These little cookies — described by one friend as tasting like a cookie within a cookie — are really a mixture between a meringue and a cookie. Hence they've become known at home, where they're immensely popular, as Merookies, and are ideal with a cup of coffee after dinner. They are called "forgotten" as, just like the Forgotten Pudding, they are not baked, but put in a hot oven, which you immediately turn off, leaving the cookies to bake in the fading residual heat overnight. I find it all…

Nigella’s Semolina Pudding is a creamy dessert made with milk, semolina, vanilla sugar, and cinnamon. It is smooth, delicious, and toasty. Nigella Lawson popularized this soothing pudding recipe, hence the name. Enjoy it plain, with honey, or with fruit.

Raspberry-Passion Fruit Pavlova (Nigella Lawson)

In testing recipes for this book I’d give away food to friends, neighbours and anyone willing to give the dishes a home. My dear friend Anosha, who eagerly claimed the mathrooba, said that I needed a better description than the one I had given her: ‘Hey, it’s me again, do you fancy a savoury porridge for dinner?’ ‘You’re massively underselling it,’ she fed back to me later that night, ‘Even my 2-year-old loved it.’ And she’s right: this is comforting, delicious and truly unique. Mathrooba…