Recipes By Nigella Lawson
145 recipes found
Summer Slaw
Choco-Hoto-Pots
I can make no dietary defense for the choco-hoto-pots: they're just good. Think ponds of molten chocolate sauce enclosed in chewy-topped, dense chocolate sponge. By popular request, I paint the lily here by adding a sprinkle of white chocolate morsels.
Parmesan Disks
Potato and Anchovy Salad
This potato salad takes its inspiration from a Swedish wintertime classic, Janssen's Temptation, a gratin of cream-swathed potatoes spiked with anchovies. You might think that 10 anchovy fillets strike too strident a note, but against the rich sharpness of the eggy sour cream dressing and the sweet salad potatoes, they just provide balance.
Crêpes Suzette
This is just one of those desserts that seem, on the page as on the plate, to be labor-intensive and tricky, but in fact are as simple to make as they are gratifying to eat. For one thing, you can make the crepes in advance; they could sit, piled between torn-off sheets of baking parchment and well wrapped in the refrigerator, for a good three days without coming to any harm. But I must admit to taking, more than once, an even quicker route: using good store-bought crepes. Once they're immersed in the sweet orangey syrup, they will not betray their prefabricated origins.
Salty Peanut Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies offer a terrific blend of salty and sweet, with the crunch of the peanuts lending a bit of texture to a chewy treat. They are also very easy to make and require only about an hour. But watch the timer — if they are overcooked, they will lose their chewiness.
Thai Orange Duck
The Thai-style version of duck à l'orange here requires only a little more work. It does not take much time to begin with, but if it makes life easier, prepare the curry base in advance, then cook the duck breasts when guests arrive. Reheat the curry sauce, carve the meat and combine. The fragmenting segments of orange and the deep sourness of the juice perfectly complement the oily richness of the coconut and the fat sweetness of the meat.
Pork and Apple Hot Pot
Snapper With Seville Orange Juice, Pine Nuts And Olives
Vegetarian Chili With Corn Bread Topping
The idea behind this spicy, all-vegetable chili is ease: It’s easily made on a weekend, a meditative wintry afternoon in the kitchen, chopping and stirring. Then, on a weeknight made even shorter by commuting and homework, concoct an easy corn bread topping, spread it on the chili and bake it for a while. It’s healthy, filling food.
Sweet and Sour Dilled Cucumber Salad
This salad couldn’t be easier. Simply slice the peeled cucumber as finely as you can and macerate it in sugar, vinegar, salt and chopped dill. This makes quite a lot of liquid as it sits in the refrigerator, but it’s meant to.
Pickled Fennel
Spaghetti With Clams
For me, spaghetti with clams has to be ''white,'' which is to say without a tomato in sight -- and actually the first time I ate it this way was not in Italy but in one of my favorite Italian restaurants in New York, Da Silvano. This was a very long time ago, and I've been hooked ever since. I have specified amounts for a single portion here, because I feel cooking food you love is never something that should be reserved for company. Besides, this is quick and easy to make, and it's important sometimes to give yourself the treat of the perfect supper alone.
Peaches In Amaretto Caramel
Summer Meatballs
Pasta Primavera Salad
Scallops With Pea Purée
Chicken, Ham And Pea Potpies
Penne Alla Vodka
Penne alla vodka is the perfect recipe for easy entertaining: short pasta is easier to cook in quantity than long strands and the sauce is amusingly retro -- think 1960s Rome, where the dish originated. But it is seriously good.
Pasta Niçoise
Lettuce Soup With Cucumber Croutons
Soup is the most versatile of dishes. When it is rough-chunked, thick and hearty, it is a homey supper; when it is smooth and delicate like the lettuce soup here, it is the perfect elegant starter. It also happens to be a wonderful way of using up any stray lettuces in your fridge. You do not want to use anything that is unpalatable, but I often start the week planning to eat a lot of salad and then end it having not lived up to my intentions. This recipe is the perfect way of atoning for that. This time of year I especially prefer this soup chilled, which makes life much easier because you can cook it in advance. If cold soup is not your thing, do not panic; it is just as good served at room temperature. Either way, this soup is taken up a few notches by being studded, by some cucumber croutons: small, jade cubes cut like toasted-bread dice, only so much more elegant.
Pineapple And Molasses Spareribs
Norwegian Pumpkin Soup
I call my soup Norwegian Pumpkin Soup, but not because it emanates from Norway. It's just that I add to the cooked and blended pumpkin a couple of cupfuls of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese; if you wish to turn this into Swiss Pumpkin Soup, no geographical sleight of hand is needed. You just use Gruyère. Either way, the sweet nuttiness of the mild, deep-flavored cheese adds depth and tone (and protein) to the pumpkin.