Nothing goes inside the bird in Delia Smith’s roast chicken with lemon and thyme. Instead a quartered lemon, wedges of red onion and unpeeled garlic …

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Nothing goes inside the bird in Delia Smith’s roast chicken with lemon and thyme. Instead a quartered lemon, wedges of red onion and unpeeled garlic …

Unlike her slow Sunday roast, Delia Smith’s fast roast chicken goes into a 230°C oven with lemon and a garlic and tarragon butter inside, and …

Unlike most risottos, Delia Smith’s chicken liver risotto is cooked in two pans at once, with arborio rice simmered in white wine and stock in …

Five layers fill Delia Smith’s cold chicken pie, three of herby pork sausagemeat and two of diced chicken seasoned with mace, all under a domed …

Two small carrots, two small onions and a stick of celery make Delia Smith’s vegetable stock, with bay leaves, peppercorns and parsley stalks for flavour. …

On the table in under an hour, Delia Smith’s fish soup starts with potatoes and three cloves of garlic softened in olive oil. Cubes of …

No prawns, mussels or clams go into Delia Smith’s seafood chowder, a 50-minute soup for 4 made with undyed smoked haddock. The fish is poached …

Started the night before with a bowl of soaking beans, Delia Smith’s black bean soup simmers for an hour and a half with pancetta, onion, …

Deep crimson and earthy, Delia Smith’s beetroot soup is a Polish recipe built on a quick, dark pork stock. The whole beetroot simmer while pork, …

Split peas, smoked bacon and ham stock make Delia Smith’s pea and ham soup for 6, which she calls the London Particular after the thick …