Recipes

Nigella Lawson

Garlic bread — a damp-centred, often bendy, stick of it — was a dominating feature of my eating life in the

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Nigella Lawson · Nigella Summer

Nigella Lawson · Nigella Summer

There is a hint of the days-gone-by sweet trolley about this: it

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Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson · Nigella Express

This is not quite a stir-fry, though I do cook it in my wok. The chickpeas get soused with the sherry and infused with cumin, and the tangle of deep green peppery rocket wilts leggily in the pan.

Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson

Tarragon, the gorgeously named “dragoncello”, is actually little used in Italy, despite the country’s immoderate passion for all things anise. You find tarragon used only here and there, mainly in Tuscany; indeed, it is sometimes referred to as erba di Siena, the herb of Siena. Its chief appearance in those parts is in the salsa al dragoncello, where the herb is pounded with breadcrumbs and garlic and then emulsified with olive oil to produce a fragrant sauce customarily served with plain boiled meats. To be honest, I’m not sure I had that in mind when I first made this: all I wanted was to create a version of that fabulously spiky Italian green sauce, tweaked to suit chicken, which for me (and I hope this display of frankly French influence is forgiven in Italy) means tarragon.

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The sauce borrows from the idea of tsatsiki and all those Middle-Eastern yogurt salads — it is a cool, pungent accompaniment to the tender, but not strongly flavoured, chicken.

Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson

This is both sprightly and comforting, a combination I find highly satisfactory! I normally prefer the brown meat, but here go for what are generally called mini-fillets of chicken breast, which take hardly any time to cook. What

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Nigella Lawson

There is something old-fashioned and comforting about a cream sauce. It

Nigella Lawson · Nigella Bites

This is a proper supper, but a speedy one. And though it

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When I was young, this old French classic was still — though in a quiet way — very much in vogue. I dare to say it was because the novelty of using so many garlic cloves had not worn off; it seemed somehow dangerously excessive. Even so, I don

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Nigella Lawson

I know the world is full of good parents who never give their children food with salt or sugar, and this recipe (among others) proves conclusively that I am not one of them. Oh, and on top of these dietary failings, the following also contains alcohol. There

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Nigella Lawson · Nigella Bites

Nigella Lawson · Nigella Express

This is one of those fast and easy suppers that makes you — and whoever else is eating it — purr with delight. You don

Nigella Lawson · Nigella Summer

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