Nadiya’s Family Favourites Easy Beautiful And Show-stopping Recipes For Every Day

[Margorie Gomoran]

NadiyaHussain's debut TV cookery series achieved sensational viewing figures and she will be back on the BBC with her new show this summer. Staying closer to home this time, Nadiya shares the food she loves to cook and eat with her family, offering fast, easy and delicious new ideas for whatever each day brings.

As well as her own favourites, Nadiya will meet and take inspiration from home cooks around the UK, discovering their family food stories and all-time favourite dishes. Warm, inclusive and celebratory, her new book and series will show us how to create the perfect food to complement the kind of moments we all love, from days out with friends to family get-togethers and lazy weekends at home, as well as deliciously easy solutions for manic weeknights and impromptu guests.

Smoky Spinach Shakshuka

Mocha Swirls

Bombay Potato Tacos

Vegetarian Chilli with Rosemary Cornbread

Sticky Lamb Ribs with Green Mango Salad

Peanut Honeycomb Banana Cake

Raspberry Ice Cream Cake

Since winning 2015's Great British Bake Off in a finale watched by over 13 million viewers, Nadiya Hussain has become a national treasure. She has presented four of her own BBC2 cookery series to great acclaim, with episodes reaching on average 1.9 million viewers each week. A fifth series broadcasts in 2021 and a sixth is in the works. Her series have also been shown internationally on Netflix and her cookbooks have published into the USA, Germany and the Netherlands, with more territories anticipated.

Nadiya's other projects have included a series of childrens books and a memoir, a reporting role for The One Show, a range of cookware and partnerships with major brands. Nadiya writes a regular column for The Times and has become recognised as a commentator on mental health and anxiety.

Born in Luton to British Bangladeshi parents, Nadiya now lives in Milton Keynes with her husband, Abdal, and their three teenage children. She was recently awarded an MBE for services to broadcasting and the culinary arts.

A tempting compendium of family-friendly recipes, packed with crowd-pleasing comfort food. Better still, the dishes are easy to cook and full of flavour and spice, inspired by cuisines from all over the world

Nadiya Hussain's latest cookbook unlocks a world of joyful flavour in your kitchen using only 8 simple spices.

'Nadiya dishes up easy but delicious meals. All the recipes use the same eight spices, making cooking highly flavoured dishes a doddle. Its also easier on the pocket during the cost of living crisis' DAILY EXPRESS

When it comes to spice Nadiya's family cooking is never complicated and always delicious. Now Nadiya wants to share with you how to use the 8 readily available spices she uses at home daily to cook her most-loved meals. The same spices that her Mum uses and her Nani used before her!

Cardamom, fennel, cinnamon, turmeric, cumin, chilli, bay leaves and curry powder are all you need to create any recipe in this book.

Get ready to make...

From beautiful breakfasts, midday lunches and staple recipes you won't live without again, to tips for the perfect saucepan of rice, your favourite middle of the table curries, vegetables, side dishes and sweets, you'll be confident in cooking extraordinary family food, filled to the brim with easy-to-achieve flavour.

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'Another fabulous offering from this prolific and inventive chef' Prima

A recent evening began innocently enough, with the spouse and I settling down for a little Netflix with a side of dinner. On deck were episodes of "Nadiya's Time to Eat," Nadiya Hussain's bright and jaunty cooking series featuring accessible recipes for home chefs.

Nothing could have been more harmless or salubrious, or so I thought. How bad could it be to spend time with our favorite winner of "The Great British Baking Show" and learn a few kitchen time-saving tricks? Hussain is a whirlwind of enthusiasm surrounded in sunlight and saturated colors. Her three children and husband are similarly lovable, sweet and supportive. In the premiere each child skips up to taste one of mum's fabulous creations and declares it good. Love is all around.

Did I mention her garden? Yes, Nadiya's landscape is unearthly, a riot of blossoms and greenery. One almost expects a fairy flock to assist her as she creates a summery centerpiece made out of flowers, herbs and berries suspended inside ice cubes.

Enchanted, I turned to my husband . . . only to notice that what was a window into bliss for me didn't contain the same allure for him. "She's too perfect," he answered when I asked what the problem was, which I didn't understand. The entire thesis of Hussain's show is to embrace simplicity over perfection, working creatively with whatever one has on hand.

Then I looked around our quarantine quarters and suddenly I got it. The modest, utilitarian kitchen we designed and proudly installed ourselves suddenly looked cramped and cluttered. Dishes piled up in the sink because they are always piling up these days.

Don't even ask about our little patch of earth, flower beds that despite our regular battles against chaos would be more accurately described as a tiny weed farms . . . and not the smokable kind. An attempt to get into what reads like a more 2020 suitable episode titled, "Easy End of Days" (heh) also came up empty. The opening recipe is an easy pasta dish, something we've eaten quite enough of lately -- featuring beets which, again, would require suiting up like Bane to leave the house.

Reality was never genuinely real as the average person knows. Nearly three decades into the reality TV age many of us have a basic awareness of the role editing, soft-scripting and staging plays in these supposedly unfiltered glimpses into the lives of others. This is true whether the reality subgenre in question is competitive, aspirational, instructional or one of the many ostentatious parades of the wealthy and entitled TV has to offer.

Still, there's never been a time in the age of television quite like this one, when we've never been as consciously aware of our own limitations, economic fragility, and the risk of illness or death that may accompany being in close proximity to strangers or even friends and family. In this context, reality TV has a greater potential than scripted comedies and dramas to remind us that life isn't normal and may not be for a very long time.

Thus as TV takes on a more central role in our lives, unscripted shows that once served as sugar rushes may have taken on a distinctly different vibe. A lifestyle expert's cheery suggestion might spark one quarantine-bound viewer's creativity or come across as a rebuke to another. Padma Lakshmi's "Taste the Nation" could inspire you to support a local restaurant by ordering curb-side delivery, or it may be a depressive reminding you how much you miss sitting in a public space and having someone else cook for you.

It's not entirely pessimistic and dour, mind you, for the simple fact that reality takes many shapes and forms and a large portion of it is sculpted to allow the audience to binge on the sensation of schadenfreude.

But even then, as our astute editor Erin Keane pointed out in discussion about the show, there was always a fair chance that L.A.'s sexiest restaurant staff could have taken themselves out by way of a mononucleosis swap at one of their many drunken parties.

This, in turn, leads a person to question how differently ratings staples such as "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" or, heaven help us, "Labor of Love" might proceed and how the necessity of distancing might affect the magic and our feelings about it . . . and whether their already ludicrous messages about love and dating (and fertility) could seem even more depressing in a social environment where physically mingling with strangers is, in accordance with many states' laws, off the table.

Courtship-centered series such as "Dating Around," "Indian Matchmaking," or "Love on the Spectrum" stand a better chance of evolving with the times thanks to virtual meeting platforms such as Zoom, and shows such as "Love Is Blind" and "The Circle," both of which hit their strides either at the start of the pandemic or right before it, may have inadvertently been built to suit this moment.

To see them now makes a person wonder whether part of the confessional soliloquys each person delivers will include, "He says he loves me . . . and he tested negative for the antibodies!" Will that signature question on "The Bachelor" now sound like, "Kayleigh, will you accept this rose . . . and take another COVID test?"

Anyway, fans of these series and any of the "Real Housewives" regional flocks may easily overlook the implications of all that unmasked fake hugging and air kissing since the actual people in them are presented as if they are fictional characters.

No more confrontations at chic restaurants and bars or driveway hair-extension wrestling for the time being. On the flipside, there's the very relatable moment when one of the women tells another, "I by no means want to be near you," a simple statement that now contains multiple layers of meaning!

But these are series with specific and devoted fandoms that won't quit come hell or high infection spikes. A possibly more widespread realization that something is missing or will be missing from our lives may be had upon watching the most recently aired season of "Survivor." CBS pulled the upcoming Fiji season from its fall schedule earlier this week after production was postponed in March due to the World Health Organization's officially declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. (The safety issues with that show have less to do with the ability to space out contestants than the inability for the crew to do so; it's a demanding production staffed with people who work around the clock, some in cramped spaces. Social distancing and the "Survivor" social experiment are incompatible, in other words.)

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