Nigella

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What are your favourite recipes from Nigella’s books, ideally either sweet or vegetarian.

I like her vegetable chilli and mattar paneer recipes, although I add lots more spices to the latter.

Her Chocolate Guinness cake is magnificent.

Her peanut butter and snickers muffins, Coca Cola cake and mackerel spaghetti are the recipes I’ve made the most.

Greek lamb stew, Gigot boulangiere, meatballs are all favourites here

Thanks. I don’t eat meat or fish though.

I haven’t seen the Coca Cola cake - googling now!

The ham cooked in Coca Cola is very good. I don’t like the choc Guinness cake but her chocolate loaf cake in Domestic Goddess is a lovely cake.

The chocolate loaf cake looks good.

I’m vegetarian, so the ham is out.

The melt in the middle chocolate puddings receive rave reviews whenever I make them (edit: she calls them molten chocolate baby cakes). Her chocolate brownies have also received "best ever" brownies reviews from friends, though I do adapt them slightly. I also love the Guinness cake. Haven't made that one for ages.

The cheese fondue is delicious in Nigella Express.

Sorry not veggie but her chilli, curry in a hurry from her Express book is what we make regularly. I don’t think I’ve tried her desserts (last thing I need is to find a yummy dessert).

She does an amazing roasted cauliflower and chickpea salad in the simply nigella book and sweet potato tacos in at my table are both great veggie recipes (I make the salad all the time) also the sweet potato and butternut squash curry in at my table is lovely. I have made the Yule log recipe in her Christmas book every year for about 10 years as it's gluten free and really easy to do on Christmas eve.

Her Fear Free Fish Stew is amazing

Thanks for these. I'll check them out.

This tortilla mexica lasagna is absolutly delicious and we all eat it as a meat eating household, even though its vegetarian. www.nigella.com/recipes/tortilla-lasagne

Malteser cake
Maple syrup cake
Pistachio macaroons
Red cabbage from the Christmas book
Chocolate olive oil cake

I made her puréed clementines and almond flour cake yesterday- it tastes like a moist marmalade cake but has no butter in it. It was even better the next day.

Fantastic. Thanks for all of these.

Still making the molten chocolate baby cakes two decades on.

I love her Parmesan shortbreads - I always make them at Christmas.

The Christmas cake from domestic goddess, lilys scones, Madeira cake, chocolate Guinness cake. I read her books like novels though, I absolutely love them.

So cake, mostly 😁

Clementine Cake.

Old rag pie

Butternut squash and sweet potato curry

Turkish eggs

PENNE ALLA VODKA

I’m not a cook, but the only thing I make on repeat is her cocktail sausages with honey, soy and sesame oil. They get hoovered up every time.

This. They are ridiculously easy but look like something you've spent hours slaving over.

Completely agree. People ooh and ahh over them and think you've produced something incredibly difficult when the only real difficulty is getting the damned things out their little tins. I now use washing up gloves for the appropriate combination of dexterity without instantly burning myself.

Her white chocolate cheese cake is lovely.

Lilly’s Scones are the best scones I’ve ever made , seen or tasted.

pear & ginger muffins (from the express book) - you can also substitute cinnamon and apple and add a bit of milk as apple is drier than pear.
Sorry these are non-veggie:
Mirin salmon (from Express)
prawn curry - with supermarket pre-cubed butternut and sweet potato (from Express)
Chicken alla Romana - from her website
There's also a gingerbread/cake recipe with a lemon icing that I sub for regular icing or it's too many flavours IMO - that might be in Domestic Goddess. I tend to only make it at Xmas in a tree-shaped mould so can't remember it very well!

I own Delia, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Mary berry cook books plus a load of non celeb ones and Nigella is my favourite by far. Easy but comes out as a showstopper. Foolproof (although the Pear & ginger muffin recipe contains a typo and the amount of sour cream should be a 142ml pot (the smallest size) not a 42ml pot as the recipe states.)

(edited for typo)

Her pizza dough is great.

Love the salmon and squash curry.