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Turkey Breast Stuffed With Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries

Nov 25, 2024 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

Introduction I know it might sound a bit of a faff, but take it from me that stuffing a whole double breast joint is very much easier than stuffing and rolling a single breast joint, as is more commonly found in supermarkets. Basically, all you’re doing here is opening out your boneless turkey joint, smothering it with stuffing and folding it over. What you end up with, for all the ease of its creation, is nothing short of a showstopper.
Fresh Gingerbread With Lemon Icing

Nov 4, 2024 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

I’ve been making this gingerbread since the turn of the century — it was one of my go-to recipes for the countless bake sales at my children’s schools when they were little — and my love for it never fades. The lemon icing is hardly conventional, but its bright sourness is a wonderful foil for the deep, dark spiciness of the cake.
Ligurian Pasta with Basil, Beans and Potatoes

Aug 19, 2024 | nigella.com | Slow-Cooker Lamb |Nigella. Featured

My children wouldn't care if all I ever gave them was pasta with some bottled sauce poured over, and I don't deny that's sometimes indeed what they are given; but to please myself, and them, this is what I make when I get it together a little. Making this is hardly effortful; the potatoes cook in the pasta water — requiring a little extra time, nothing more — and the pinenutless pesto is whizzed up easily by the processor.
Jewelled Salad

Jun 28, 2024 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

This is very far from that American classic, but — at least in its starting point — rather more Lebanese in style. I've added pomegranate seeds to the herb-flecked dice, not as a picturesque garnish, though it's certainly true that even a garnish (and, oh, how I loathe that words) must add more than beauty, but because I feel them to be an essential ingredient here, giving crunch and tangy sweetness. I often eat this alongside the Lamb Kofta but it graces any table it is brought to.
Anglo-Asian Lamb Salad

Jun 1, 2024 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

I love the tangy fire of Thai cooking; I love equally the traditional English partnership of lamb with redcurrant and mint. I just happened, one day, because of what I had in the kitchen, to bring the two together. Consider it an ovine reworking of those hot and sour beef salads of south east Asia. Redcurrant jelly stands in for the sweetness of jaggery or palm sugar and I use rice vinegar (always to hand in my store cupboard) instead of lime juice.
Roast Quinces

Dec 11, 2023 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

I am always happy when I have quinces in my kitchen: their heady, honeyed perfume, mixed with a floral citrusiness that prevents its becoming cloying, is better than the most expensive scented candle in the world. This recipe is where I propose you start. It could scarcely be simpler. I’ve been cooking with quinces for decades now, but only recently have I done this little to them to such great effect.
Pomegranate-Poached Quinces

Dec 4, 2023 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

There is something magical about these poached quinces with their soft, scented terracotta-tinted flesh and pomegranate-perfumed syrup. While I eagerly make them from November onwards, as soon as the quinces come into season, they are so fabulously festive cooked like this, decoratively demanding a place at your Christmas table. Don’t get misled by the fact that they’re fruit: this may read like a light dessert, but it's headily intense, and best eaten in smallish portions.
Brussels Sprouts With Chestnuts, Pancetta and Parsley

Dec 2, 2023 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

The sprout recipe below is really only a slight detour from the traditional route. By all means, stick to the orthodox if you prefer by adding only buttery chestnuts to the Brussels sprouts, but what follows is now my own traditional way of cooking them. There is a lot of parsley, I know, but think of it as another vegetable ingredient rather than a garnish. Obviously, if you can’t get your hands on pancetta, it’s fine to use bacon.
Green Tahini Sauce

Aug 2, 2023 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

I’m often to be found, bowl in front of me, stick blender in hand, mixing up a green tahini sauce: it turns any plate of vegetables into a feast, though its robust earthiness is particularly glorious with those at the sweeter end of the spectrum.
Bean and Courgette Salad

Jul 14, 2023 | nigella.com | Nigella. Featured

While I think of this as a salad, you might consider it simply a vegetable dish served at room temperature. No matter: it’s a glorious summer dish whichever way you look at it: green and yellow courgettes/zucchini, cut into batons, oil-dressed and oven-roasted; jade-glowing broad beans/fava beans and deep emerald fine beans, both lightly boiled then refreshed in a bowl of icy water to keep their verdant intensity.