Nigella Lawson, 60, took to Instagram and shared a recipe for chocolate chip cookies - and fans say it's the 'best' one they've ever tried.

Nigella Lawson Chocolate Brownies are probably the only brownie recipe you will ever need.

'Trying to be perfect is paralysing,' the 63-year-old admits. 'Life can be hard enough without punishing yourself for making mistakes.

It was in Australia — in Melbourne to be precise — that, under the auspices of George Calombaris, I ate the most fabulous chips: they’d been fried in garlicky oil and came sprinkled with dried mountain oregano and feta. It’s a sensational combo. Now, if you felt like doing some deep-frying, you could certainly make a panful of Tuscan Fries giving them this particular Greek spin by replacing the thyme, rosemary and sage with fresh oregano and scattering feta over them to serve, but for ease — and equal deliciousness — this is how I proceed. I chop unpeeled potatoes into small cubes, toss them in a shallow roasting tin — the shallowness is essential — with olive oil, garlic and dried oregano, and when they emerge from the oven burnished and crisp, I crumble feta over them and — should the season allow — and strew with fresh oregano. No deep-frying involved: deep happiness achieved. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

There are three crucial things that I think make the difference here: the heat of the fat, the size of your potatoes and finally, dredging the potatoe...

This Nigella meatball is a tasty dish made with ground pork, ground beef, Parmesan cheese, garlic, herbs, and other ingredients. This recipe takes about 45 minutes to make and makes enough food for 4 people.

Nigella's recipe for Vegan Chocolate Cake is a delicious treat made with unsweetened almond milk, apple cider vinegar, all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, and more. This tasty cake, which serves 12, can be made in just 60 minutes.

These are some of Nigella's best recipes, from comforting pasta dishes and all-in-one roasting tray suppers, to indulgent desserts and bakes.

Mafghoussa means “squashed” in Arabic, and that’s because the vegetables are squashed into cold salads once they are roasted. There are different versions of mafghoussa: some are made with tomatoes and laban jameed (salted and dried yoghurt), some are made with olive oil, as I have done here. The beauty of mafghoussa is that it’s a zero-waste recipe. You can use the cored insides of the courgettes (zucchini) if you are coring courgettes for another recipe (see additional info below), or use the entire courgettes; the taste is slightly different, but it’s still delicious. Mafghoussa is always served cold. This refreshing dish works beautifully with grilled meats on the side or by itself as a meal.

Mustard Pork Chops ~ this is a quick and easy 30-minute meal that comes from Nigella Lawson, so you know it's also comforting and luxurious!

This Nigella meatball is a tasty dish made with ground pork, ground beef, Parmesan cheese, garlic, herbs, and other ingredients. This recipe takes about 45 minutes to make and makes enough food for 4 people.

There was a time, years ago, when this was on my table pretty much whenever I had friends over for a lazy Saturday lunch. And I love it still. It’s simple and undemanding to make, and can equally offer summer sprightliness or winter comfort, and in summer you might certainly consider scattering over basil on serving, along with the parsley. The sauce itself (rather like the eggs in a carbonara) is not actually cooked, but warmed through as it’s tossed fragrantly with the hot pasta. I find when cooking such an amount of pasta (though bear in mind that this recipe halves easily enough), it is always a good idea to put the pan on to boil quite a bit before you think you need to. Once it’s come to the boil, you can switch off, cover the pan, and know that you are almost ready to go. And finally, may I suggest that with the two egg whites you have left over, you make a batch of Forgotten Cookies within two days, if the egg whites are kept covered in the fridge... And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

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Nigella's carrot cake with ginger and walnuts is a twist on the classic - not too much icing, not too sweet. Just right with a cup of tea.

Nigella Lawson's delicious one-pot recipe for Orzo with Meatballs is a comforting and warming pasta dish perfect for wintry weekend cooking.

There is nothing more comforting with a cup of tea than a scone, with or without jam. Scones are so quintessentially British and always bring to mind the echoing gulder of “Tralllllleeeee!…

Nigella carrot cake is made with fresh carrots, crunchy walnuts, warming spices, and crystallised ginger, topped with creamy cream cheese icing. This delicious Nigella Carrot Cake recipe takes about 1 hour to prepare and can serve 8-12 people.

This is what I make for my children’s birthday celebrations, for farewell suppers to send them off before they go away, and for the dinners to welcome them back when they come home again. It’s our family take on a traditional lasagne, though I’m not sure Italians would exactly welcome my deviations from the classical recipe. For one thing, I don’t make my own lasagne sheets; while I have in the past, I now routinely use dried ones out of a packet and, what’s more, I don’t boil them first. In order, then, to ensure they soften properly, I make a slightly more liquid meat sauce than is customary and, rather than have a covering of béchamel at the end, I finish with a layer of meat sauce, topped with chopped mozzarella on top. None of this is proper from a North Italian perspective, but the lasagne it yields is pleasure-giving and gratifyingly popular. I can’t say that this is exactly faff-free to make: but it is time-consuming rather than difficult. I adore pottering about the kitchen making it. What’s more, you can layer it up (bar the mozzarella topping) in advance (see notes) and bake when needed. And I make this even if there isn’t a whole tableful of people to eat it; I freeze leftovers in individual portions, to make for most superior ready-meals at a later date. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

Nigella Lawson Banoffee Pie is made with digestive biscuits, unsalted butter, ripe bananas, condensed milk, heavy cream, dark chocolate. This British Nigella Lawson Banoffee Pie recipe delicious dessert takes about 7 hours to prepare and can serve up to 8 to 10 people.

Nigella Semolina Pudding is a tasty treat that only needs a few simple ingredients, like milk, semolina, vanilla sugar, and ground cinnamon. It takes 20 minutes to put together and can feed 4 people.

Served nacho-style with crispy pitta chips, Nigella Lawson's Middle Eastern-inspired Beef and Aubergine Fatteh, as seen on her BBC series, At My Table, makes a sumptuous dinner.

A healthier gluten free, sugar free version of her original breakfast bars.

Nigella Victoria Sponge is made with self-raising flour, unsalted butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, whole milk. This British Nigella Victoria Sponge recipe creates a classic and fluffy cake that takes about 40 minutes to prepare (plus cooling time) and can serve up to 8 people.

Yet another of Nigella Lawson's clever re-inventions of the classic roast chicken, this Chicken in a Pot with Lemon and Orzo is an all-in-one crowd-pleaser.

There is something old-fashioned and comforting about a cream sauce. It's so rare to come across these days, and I think it's time we welcomed it back. My paternal grandmother was very keen on chicken with finely sliced button mushrooms and cream, which I remember fondly if blandly, and although you could certainly fry a panful of mushrooms in butter and add cream to it, I much prefer this funghi-free and fiercely garlicky version. I love this best, I think, with plain basmati rice, but I can't deny there is an equally good case to be made for some simply steamed new potatoes alongside instead. And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

Nigella Semolina Cake is a rich and fragrant treat made with semolina, almonds, lemon zest, and Greek yogurt. Here is a delicious recipe for it. Find out how to make this tasty cake in 15 minutes of prep time and 45 minutes of baking time.

This recipe for an easy, throw-it-all-together weekday supper or bolstering weekend breakfast comes from my long-time kitchen companion, Hettie Potter, and very grateful I am, too. Impressively, she makes this a single portion. I, no modest eater, feel it is perfectly substantial for two, though it is a little tricky to divide. Think of this as a pie that uses flour tortillas in place of pastry and, although I have given precise measures for what to chuck in, consider them guidance only. The same goes for the ingredients themselves: replace the ham with sliced leftover sausages or leave it out altogether, and use any cheese you like. All that really matters is that you can form a pie: whatever size tortillas you use, they have to be able to line your dish, and come at least 2cm / ¾ inch up the sides. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

Nigella Lawson Banoffee Pie is made with digestive biscuits, unsalted butter, ripe bananas, condensed milk, heavy cream, dark chocolate. This British Nigella Lawson Banoffee Pie recipe delicious dessert takes about 7 hours to prepare and can serve up to 8 to 10 people.

I’m a fan of scooping up relatively dry but still succulent, gently spiced minced (ground) meat with pliable, puffy or flaky bread. Even more so if eggs are involved. When craving this sort of thing, makhlama lahm (sometimes called ‘Iraqi eggs’) hits the spot every time.

This Nigella Lawson Chicken Lasagna recipe is made with chicken, lasagna noodles, mozzarella, cream cheese, bouillon, and spaghetti sauce. It takes 95 minutes to make and serves 6 people.

If there were a single dish – the dish – that has come to symbolise Berber & Q, a ‘signature’ so to speak, it would be our cauliflower shawarma.

Much as I love to have a pan bubbling away on the stove, I often feel that the most stress free way to feed people is by taking the oven route. When I'm frazzled, I firmly believe that the tray-bake is the safest way to go. Enjoy the easefulness of the oven: you just bung everything in, and you're done. I think I'd go to the supreme effort of laying on a green salad as well but, other than that, you may kick up your flamenco heels and enjoy the fiesta. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

I find fresh horseradish easy to come by these days but, if you don't, add the same amount of hot horseradish cream or sauce from a jar for the marinade. If you want to serve lamb skewers alongside, then use cubed leg, replace the horseradish in the marinade with a teaspoonful each of ground cumin and coriander, and make a dip by mixing good shop-bought hummus with Greek-style plain yogurt, and drizzle the top with a little olive oil before scattering with some pomegranate seeds. And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

This is not the place for in-depth social history, unless you take the view — as I do — that all food is social history, but I do need to provide a bit of provenance. Once upon a time there was Biba, an ill-lit but fabulous boutique, shoplifters' paradise, at the top of Kensington High Street. It moved, triumphantly, down the road to the old Derry and Tom's building, four or five huge floors of it, and on the fourth, or fifth, I can't remember, was its restaurant, the Rainbow Room, where my mother took me for treats when I was a child, while she kitted herself out in suede boots, maxi-coats and mini-dresses. This salad, or some approximation of it, was on its menu and my mother loved it and made her own version at home regularly. I do, too. Its ingredients list may sound odd, but this is a combination that not only works but becomes addictive. Don't be alarmed at the amount of vinegar: the astringency of the dressing, against the fulsome oiliness of the nuts and, in turn, nutty sweetness of the carrots, is the whole point. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

These are those thick, spongy American pancakes that are often eaten with warm maple syrup and crisp fried bacon. I love them with the syrup alone, but if you do want bacon, I think streaky is best. You can easily cook these pancakes by dolloping the batter onto a hot griddle (smooth, not ridged, side) or heavy based pan. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

Fantastically easy and delicious, these give you that little sugar and lemon hit at the end of a meal, lifting you up for the last part. When blood oranges are in season you can use those instead, if you like, to make blood orange possets.

On days when I want the warmth of the hearth rather than the hurly burly of the city streets I stay in and read cookery books, and this recipe comes from just the sort of book that gives most succour, Classic Home Desserts by Richard Sax. The cake itself is as richly and rewardingly sustaining: a melting, dark, flourless, chocolate base, the sort that sinks damply on cooling; the fallen centre then cloudily filled with softly whipped cream and sprinkled with cocoa powder. As Richard Sax says, "intensity, then relief, in each bite". For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

It’s important to use romano (long) peppers here as the skins aren’t as tough as on bell peppers. If you can’t get hold of them, use bell peppers, but after roasting, add them to a bowl, immediately cover with clingfilm and allow to cool. You’ll then be able to easily peel off the tough charred skins.

Pecans, buttermilk, and maple syrup, oh my!

"I creep into the kitchen the next morning to check on the cookies, and I feel just like a kid at Christmas."

Image CreditsPhoto by Jonathan Lovekin Ingredients 1 chicken (approx. 3½ pounds) 3 fat cloves of garlic 2 medium carrots (approx. 10 ounces) 2 medium leeks (approx. 5 cups sliced, white parts only) 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 lemons 2 teaspoons dried tarragon (or dried thyme) 2 teaspoons flaky sea salt or kosher salt (or

I had taken this recipe from one of Nigella Lawson's tv shows a long time back. It is a fool proof recipe. Works every time and is extremely easy to bake. -Madhushree