Nigella's Pies and Tarts Recipes

Cheese, Onion and Potato Pies

This is the picnic food of fondest imagination, although I’m not much of a picnic-person, so to ensure they get the number of outings they deserve and I need, I’ve always made them for more convention…

Chicken and Ham Pies

I loved making these pies for my children when they were little, not that it makes me any less happy to make them now. I think it’s safe to say that — for most of us — a pie is always a blessing. And…

Chicken, Mushroom and Bacon Pie

Even the word pie is comforting. But then, it would be hard to deny the very real lure of pastry, especially when, as here, you know you're going to dunk it in gravied juices till its luscious lightne…

Courgette and Chick Pea Filo Pie

This is a wonderful pie for those of you who don't feel like making your own pastry: it's made with shop-bought filo, and is easy — and rather calming — to assemble. I learnt to make the Italian Pizza…

Egg and Bacon Pie

This recipe (which started off as Boxing Day Pie) comes from Beryl Scoffield, the mother of one of my oldest friends, and a woman with a reputation for her pies. It’s wonderfully old-fashioned and com…

Old Rag Pie

This is a salty-sweet version (think Greek cheesecake) of the Greek Patsavouropita, created by bakeries as a way of using up old scraps of filo pastry: the ”old rags” indicated by the title. They’d ju…

Gluten-Free Apple and Blackberry Pie

As you can see by looking at my Gluten-free Cakes my way of tackling gluten-free-baking is simply to exclude flour altogether but, inspired by 'The How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook' I have embarked…

Honey Pie

This is adapted from the Salty Honey Pie from the Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book. I haven’t fiddled much with the ur-version — why mess with perfection? — but mine does have an easier-to-make, no…

My Brandy Alexander Pie

This dessert has mixed parentage: I put a recipe for a Brandy Alexander cocktail into the Cookbook Corner section of the old website and almost immediately was tweeted about the wonderful creation tha…

Pecan-Plus Pie

This is somewhat of an Anglo-American enterprise. I have taken a pecan pie, and added other nuts, simply because for me, the English festive season means bowls of mixed nuts and the memory of my grand…

Star-Topped Mince Pies

This is the way I make my mince pies, and there is no changing me or them: they are small, to be popped straight into the mouth in one go; the pastry is plain, the better to contrast with the rich, fr…

Girdlebuster Pie

I confess: it was the title that lured me. Tell me you don’t feel the same. I came across this in a recipe by Elinor Klivans, whom I often turn to for chocolatey solace, in her The Essential Chocolate…

I made this and I busted my girdle.

Double Apple Pie

I don’t want to nominate favourites, but even so, I have to say this is a pie I am ecstatic about – perhaps because it’s so far removed from what I’ve spent my life cooking. The notion of putting Ched…

Bitter Orange Tart

Although I make the most of the Seville orange season (December to February), that bitter orange taste is too good to forsake during the long months that Seville oranges are not about. Then I simply t…

Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart

While I believe most emphatically that one should never cook to impress, but rather to delight, the fact remains that this is undeniably a high-impact dessert and, at the same gratifying time, an enco…

No-Fuss Fruit Tart

This is perhaps one of the most useful puddings you can have in your repertoire. Not that it is the job of a pudding to be useful: a pudding exists merely to delight. Still, dinner does need to be mad…

Salted Chocolate Tart

I have always avoided making chocolate tarts, not out of laziness (I love a bit of pastry-making, in the right mood), but because I have never really felt that the pastry served the chocolate, or was…