Season 1
Nigella Express is a British television cooking series hosted by Nigella Lawson that focuses on short cut cooking tips and time-saving ideas. The series covers every real-life cooking eventuality, from breakfast, lunch and dinner to parties and food-on-the-go.
The series originally premiered in the UK on 3 September, 2007. There are 13 half-hour episodes in the series.
Nigella Express premiered in South Africa on DStv's BBC Food channel on Wednesday 21 May 2008, at 18h00. Double episodes air back-to-back each week.
Synopsis
The Domestic Goddess is back and this time it's instant.
Who's got any time these days to spend hours in the kitchen preparing healthy and delicious meals for yourself and perhaps even a family? But if you like eating, your stomach and taste buds don't have to suffer just because time is short.
Nigella Lawson cooks up fabulous fast food and reveals incredible short cuts and brilliant time-saving ideas in this new 13-part series, Nigella Express.
Nigella prepares delicious, easy recipes which require minimum effort with maximum effect and covers every real-life cooking eventuality, from breakfast, lunch and dinner to parties and food on the go.
Viewers can hit the kitchen running with these great recipe ideas.
Each episode is different, with some based around one meal and others around themes ranging from "speedy suppers" to "razzle dazzle", delivering recipes with a wow factor for when there's no time to slave over a hot stove.
With delicious yet simple recipes, this is a new generation of fast food that everyone will want to cook and eat. With Nigella on hand, dinner need never feel like a chore again.