Nadiya's Everyday Baking: From Weeknight Dinners to Celebration Cakes, Let Your Oven Do the Work

by Nadiya Hussain

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Our love affair with Nadiya Hussain started after she won the sixth series of BBC’s The Great British Bake Off in 2015 and continues with this stunning cookbook all about pairing the perfect meal or dessert with the right occasion or mood. Mouth-watering photos and Nadiya’s signature warmth make this cookery book one you’ll turn to again and again for that perfect bake!

The beloved Netflix host and New York Times bestselling author of Nadiya Bakes and Time to Eat presents more than ninety sweet and savory recipes for every meal, occasion, or mood.
 
Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Baking Show, knows that what we bake depends on the day of the week and what mood we’re in. In Nadiya’s Everyday Baking, Nadiya shares nearly 100 simple and achievable recipes for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and everything in between. 
 
Organized by situation and occasion, Nadiya’s recipes are designed to always provide for a delicious, rewarding meal no matter what kind of day you’re having:

• Everyday Kind of Days when you’re short on time: Harissa Pita Pockets, Sweet Potato Jalapeño Gratin, Crispy Tofu Lettuce Wraps
• Chill Out Days when you want to move and cook slowly: Spring Onion Pancakes, Tandoori Chicken Naan Sando, Spicy Smashed Chickpeas
• Rainbow Days when you need some color in your diet: Spinach and Paneer-Stuffed Shells, Crunchy Okra Fries, Fruity Baked Ricotta Dip
• Happy Days when you want to cook something uplifting and celebratory: Paprika Egg Phyllo Tart, Mushroom Carnitas, Chocolate Hazelnut Cookie Pie 
• Baking Days with simple desserts for beginner bakers as well as elevated bakes for experienced ones: Cake in a Jar, Hot Chocolate Custard Pudding, Indian Gulab Jamun Cheesecake 
 
This stunning collection of recipes, alongside delightful photography and Nadiya’s warm, inspirational voice, is sure to become a new favorite for home cooks and bakers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593579053
Publisher:	Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	390,966
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Nadiya Hussain won season six of The Great British Baking Show. She has since hosted ten BBC cooking shows, including Time to Eat and Nadiya Bakes, and is the author of both companion cookbooks. She lives in the UK with her husband and three children.

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Introduction


Baking is a language I never imagined I would speak. As a first-generation British child growing up in a lively, colorful Bangladeshi home, bursting at the seams with delicious exotic food, we cooked everything, we ate everything; you name it, we ate it. We ate everything . . . but cake.

We didn’t bake. We did stovetop cooking and reserved the oven space for storing frying pans and such. The oven knob untouched, never turned. It lay unused.

For some reason I never questioned it, why we never baked like Delia in her Christmas specials. She had an oven in the wall, whereas we had a free-standing one and despite my small, ever-inquisitive brain, I never questioned if they were the same thing: an oven, but just slightly different.

It was someone else’s world. Not mine; well, not until it became mine.

Eventually I realized that anyone can bake, you don’t have to have a fancy kitchen, an oven in the wall, expensive equipment, a TV show. Anyone can bake—you, even me—all you need is an oven. You don’t even have to love baking, as it’s a love that grows with time, with every bake you undertake, and before you know it you’ll be hooked on the sweet smell of baking in the kitchen.

Like me, you can learn to love baking with these straightforward, delicious, and achievable recipes. There is a recipe in here for every kind of day. Some days you might want cookies, cakes, or pastries, when you’re relaxed and have time to spare. But other days you may be spending time outdoors, or in a rush during the week, and what you need is on-the-go food, or dinner on the table fast. There are also recipes for what I call rainbow days, when you want something healthier; days when you want to chill out with something cozy; and not forgetting those big celebration days. From surprise snickerdoodle cookies, an easy oven chicken stew, and a breakfast pizza, to angel layer cake slices, a whole citrus seabass, and a stunning meringue cake, who says you can’t bake every single day?

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Everyday Kind of Days 10

Banana and peanut butter roll-ups 12

Harissa pita pockets 14

Keema sheet pan panini 15

Potato peel chips 19

Jam layer flapjacks 21

Whole roasted onion curry 23

Sweet potato jalapeño gratin 25

Crispy tofu lettuce wraps 27

Salmon moussaka 30

Anchovy crumb pasta 33

Baked apple fritters with lime and raspberry icing 34

Toasted sweet brioche with orange, saffron, cardamom, and pistachio 37

Hot chocolate custard cake 38

White chocolate and raspberry puff bar 40

Chill-Out Days 44

Sweet onion socca 46

Sprinkle butter babka loaf 48

Surprise snickerdoodles 52

Tandoori chicken naan sando 54

Baked chicken curry stew 57

Smashed spiced chickpeas 58

Green onion pancakes 61

Baked shrimp pasta dinner 62

Slow-cooked lamb daleem 65

Charred tomato stromboli 66

Butterscotch cheesecake coconut bars 69

Marbled ice cream loaf cake 70

Citrus cream cake 75

Marzipan plum pound 76

Rainbow Days 78

Sweet potato rice paper rolls with coconut maple dip 80

Olive oil fragrant eggs 82

Crunchy okra fries 83

Spinach and paneer-stuffed shells 86

Seafood boil with zesty butter sauce 89

Corned beef bake with a roasted pickle and herb oil 92

Rainbow popcorn 94

Whole wheat seeded loaf loaded with quick-fix sardines 96

Chile chicken rice with charred fava beans 99

Maple milk cake 100

Fruity baked ricotta dip 103

Kiwi gazpacho with crispy coconut croissants 106

Coconut fish noodles 108

Fruit meringue pie 111

Happy Days 112

Irish potato sheet pan cakes 114

Eggplant brioche burgers 116

Thai red mussel omelet with oven-baked fries 119

Breakfast yorkie 121

Cheese beignets 122

Cornbread dog 125

Paprika egg filo bake 126

Dump-it-all-in Mexican dinner 129

Southern "fried" chicken livers 130

Mushroom carnitas 133

Rhubarb, rose, and strawberry bake with a scone top 134

Ultimate nut butter-stuffed cookies 139

Crunchy nut corn flake tart 140

Chocolate cookie pie 142

Baking Days 146

Coffee cake with dalgona coffee cream 148

Eat-later honey cake 151

No-knead bread 152

Peppery black olive palmiers 154

Baked feta with chile, honey, and thyme 156

Crunch wrap 158

Twice-baked squash 161

Stuffed squid 162

Kimchi chicken with buttery miso leeks 165

Pistachio and poppy seed cake with pistachio praline 166

Spiced cinnamon bun cake 170

Neenish tart 173

Monkey bubble bread 174

Outdoor Days 178

Granola breakfast cups 180

Cheat's almond croissant rolls 183

Cheese and onion Welsh cakes 186

Orange semolina cake 188

Lamb samosa balls 191

Pineapple and chile-marinated lamb ribs 193

Beet salad with crispy chile crabsticks 194

Plantain subs with quick pickles 197

Achari chicken pie 198

Nutty tuna cake 200

Cake in a Jar 201

Caramel pecan pie 204

Chocolate bombe 207

Meringue pops 209

Celebration Days 210

Breakfast pizza 212

Plum half-moons 217

Pretzel bites with cheese sauce 218

Ruby eggs 221

Aromatic chicken biryani 224

Baked shrimp toast 227

Spiced potato puff pastry cups 228

Whole citrus sea bass 230

Chicken shashlik 233

Sicilian meatloaf 234

Gulab jamun cheesecake 237

Meringue cake 238

Garden of Eden blondies 243

Angel layer cake slices 244

Acknowledgments 248

Index 249

Editorial Reviews

10/03/2022

Hussain (Nadiya Bakes), winner of the Great British Baking Show in 2015 and host of the Nadiya Bakes Netflix series, offers a rich collection of more than 90 sweet and savory baked goods. From quick harissa pita pockets to sweet potato rice paper rolls with coconut maple dip, there are recipes for any occasion or craving. The array of baked treats will appeal to various flavor palates, including the celebratory garden of Eden blondies and summer-friendly orange semolina cake. Savory recipes, such as crunchy okra fries and spiced potato puff pastry cups inspired by Bangladeshi street food, provide a unique twist on familiar dishes. But some bakes are unexpected, notably the Southern fried chicken livers and the nutty tuna cake, which both have textures that are an acquired taste. Still, Hussain’s time-saving shortcuts (like using frozen puff pastry for butterscotch cheesecake coconut bars) and straightforward instructions provide an accessible, no-fuss experience. Bakers of all levels will turn to Hussain for inspiration—and fire up their ovens—time and again. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

★ 09/01/2022

Hussain—the Great British Bake Off winner, cookbook author (Nadiya Bakes; Time To Eat), and host of her own popular TV cooking shows—assures readers that anyone can learn to love baking. She categorizes her latest collection of sweet and savory recipes into the type of day readers might be having: everyday, chill-out, "rainbow" (that is, nutritionally balanced), happy, baking, outdoor, or celebration. Hussain excels at creating new takes on everyday food, whether it's putting the components of a full English breakfast on top of pizza dough for breakfast pizza, adding harissa to pita pockets or paneer to stuffed shells, topping a coffee cake with dalgona coffee cream, adding a caramel surprise inside a snickerdoodle, or forming cinnamon buns into a giant cake. Hussain's voice really comes through strongly in her helpful preparation and baking instructions, which is part of what makes this so delightful. Several gorgeous photos of the finished products are included along with instructional photos for recipes that could use visual cues. VERDICT Hussain puts her own spin on baking in this collection of appetizing recipes that showcases her infectious joy for food and penchant for playing with flavors.—Melissa DeWild

Library Journal