Nigella Express

Nigella is back and this time it's instant. Nigella Lawson offers viewers fabulous food fast, incredible short cuts and brilliant time-saving ideas, in this new, 13-part series.

Nigella prepares delicious, easy recipes which require minimum effort with maximum effect. Every real-life cooking eventuality is covered, from breakfast, lunch and dinner to parties and food on the go.

Nigella enjoys a very busy lifestyle and has the answers: "I am for ever dashing about trying to get everything done, what with work, children and various duties and obligations. But – and it's a big but – I need to eat, and I need to eat well.

Plus, I love to feed people. And since I keep notes of every meal I ever cook, I suddenly realised that here, in my notebook, were the makings of a series that responded to the demands of modern everyday life."

Sorting out evening meals after a hard day can feel like a chore but Nigella has it covered.

In today's opener, she recreates a quick and delicious supper for the family – roast poussin with sweet potatoes and sugar snap pea and watercress salad with wasabi dressing.

For a quick after-work supper with a friend, Nigella goes for her ever-ready standby – crispy squid with garlic mayo. When she's home alone there's nothing better than fast-cook mustard pork chops with gnocchi, a sentimental favourite from her first trip away to France without her family.

She also enjoys the ultimate treat of caramel croissant pudding, eaten in bed after a night out at a party.

With Nigella on hand, supper need never feel like a chore again.

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