These are to die for, and instantly became a favourite at our place. You can hand whip them up in no time and they bake in just 15 minutes. All they need is a few raspberries scatt...

Pear-shaped pies that are relatively quick to make. Each pear has an almond/brandy filling and is wrapped in puff pastry. The poaching liquid for the pears is reduced to make a sau...

This was surprisingly quick and easy, and I'll never need to grumble again how the commercial pastes seem to be mostly salt and/or sugar. I used only a small fraction of the chilli...

We loved this, even using a relatively inexpensive frozen fish fillet. The secret is to use Madhur's own red curry paste.

Every cookery book gives a recipe for tomato sauce, but this is the one I always use to spread over a pizza base before adding the other ingredients. The combination of tomato, oli...

I still prefer the yoghurt and tomato to be part of separate side dishes for an Indian meal.

Very nice, and half the suggested amount of cayenne pepper was plenty.

Definitely a new winter favourite. I had chestnuts that needed using, so used them instead of walnuts. It's hard to imagine that it could have been better without them.

Maggie says she uses this pastry 99/100 times, so it ought to be good. At my first attempt (not being a natural with pastry!) I pulsed it too long past the "resembles course breadc...

Was going to give this 5 stars, as it was really delicious. However, it's a bit fiddlesome, and I'm wondering if there's a simpler but equally tasty way to combine pastry, quinces...