Recipes By Nigella Lawson
145 recipes found
Roast Duck With Blueberry Sauce
Fruity Banana Bread
Ricotta Kisses
These baci di ricotta -- perfect kisses, hot, soft and melting -- are a surprisingly easy dessert. It's just a question of mixing the ingredients in a bowl (by hand) and then frying rounded teaspoonfuls of the batter in just under an inch of oil until you have some light, small, vaguely ball-shaped fritters that need no more than a powdery dusting with confectioners' sugar. Put a dish mounded with them on the table with coffee and watch them go.
Seville Orange Tartlets And Curd
Spiced Pumpkin Chutney
Pumpkin-Seed Brittle
Cold Poached Salmon With Dill Mustard Sauce
The centerpiece of a summer solstice menu created in 2005 for The Times, this dish alludes to gravlax — the Scandinavian dish of cured salmon — with the spices used to poach the salmon and the sweet mustard sauce. The cooking technique here yields the most tender flesh you may ever encounter with salmon.
Bean And Shrimp Salad
Toad-In-The-Hole
Chocolate and Pistachio Whirligig Buns
This recipe was brought to The Times in 2003 by Nigella Lawson, the British cookbook author and culinary celebrity, as part of an article encouraging readers to bake with yeast – an act all too often unnecessarily fraught with anxiety. The payoff for tackling one's fear, she argued, is big. Enter these pillowy, butter-rich buns dotted with semisweet chocolate and pistachios. They are not difficult – if you can follow directions, you can make them (really!) – and they are insanely delicious. You can also fill them with marmalade, or with honey and chopped walnuts.
Mussels With Saffron And Sherry
Salmon With Ginger And Lemon Grass Broth
Hamburger Holstein
This is a juicy, tender, chopped steak patty, topped with a fried egg, its bright, golden yolk crisscrossed with anchovies. It may sound excessive, but actually the balance of textures and flavors is perfect: the oiliness of the egg is matched by the sharp saltiness of the anchovies, and both point up the tender savoriness of the rare-cooked meat. You don't even miss the bun.
Cod Baked With Prosciutto
Cod with prosciutto and lentils is one of my favorite dinner party standbys. You can brush the cold cod fillets with a little melted butter and wrap them in the prosciutto a few hours before you want to cook them. Just let them sit in the fridge, and remember to bring them to room temperature before brushing with a little more butter and cooking. Arrange the lentils on a large dish, place the fish on top and garnish with some freshly chopped parsley if you wish.
Roast Loin of Pork With Caraway, Lemon and Garlic
This recipe is a wonderful addition to a celebratory feast, or a weekend winter meal. Some advice if you can't find a loin on the bone: Buy a boneless rolled pork loin and stab it in several places with a knife, then push small amounts of the spice paste into the meat. Smear the rest all over. The aroma of caraway and clove sweetly permeates the meat alongside the sweet-sharpness of the garlic and the out-and-out sharpness of the lemon. The result is robust without being heavy, and the apples roasted alongside the pork provide a juicy edge and a beautiful accompaniment.
Apple Caramel Calvados Crepes
There is no doubt that this recipe is an undertaking, what with cooking the apples, making the crepes and some Calvados-flavored sauce. But if you want, you could do away with the sauce and crepes, and serve the buttery, almost caramelized apples over good vanilla ice cream. And even though you need to rustle up the three components, it is an easy choice when you have guests over, as everything can be made in advance. The apples and sauce can be reheated at the last minute and their warmth heats up the thin, pliable crepes.
Apricot And Apple Charlotte
Crepes Belle-Hélène
Summer Brined Turkey
Smoked-Fish Risotto
Lamb Chops With Black Olives
Fish Pie
To the uninitiated, fish pie has an uninviting name and reputation. But this is fish that is gently poached, then swathed in a white sauce and topped with buttery mashed potatoes and finished to a heat-bronzed finish in the oven. It is a dish good for children but can be made into unapologetic dinner-party fare by poaching the fish in a little white wine, making the white sauce with light cream rather than milk and infusing all of it with the eggy-lemony kiss of saffron. It’s an hour well worth spending.
Passion Fruit Fool
There is something about the fragrant astringency of passion fruit, which when mixed with the bland, soft thickness of whipped heavy cream, makes one feel about as near to sensation heaven as it's possible to get at lunchtime.
Fish With Toasted Almonds
This is an easy dish that you can put on the table when you have friends coming around after a long day's work. The soft-fleshed cod (or any other meaty white fish) is offset by the crunchy almonds. Serve alongside a pile of fresh green beans, cooked until just tender, but still bright.