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La bella Nigella

Italy is a country with wonderful tomatoes, vibrant herbs and fabulous cheeses, so superb vegetarian food isn’t hard to find – even a self-confessed greedy carnivore like Nigella will be easily sated by this magnificent feast.

In this month's delicious. magazine – our yearly Italian special – Nigella shares her rustic vegetarian recipes with us, including the sensuous Soft and sharp involtini and the creative Italianified guacamole. Can't wait? Try two of her recipes for spaghetti with raw tomato sauce and amaretto syllabub right now.

Spaghetti with raw tomato sauce

Nigella Lawson's vegetarian pasta dish is unequivocally Italian. ‘Sugo crudo’ simply means raw sauce, and so here the tomatoes are indeed raw and, once peeled, deseeded and chopped, they’re left to steep with a little sugar, salt, pepper, a bruised garlic clove and good olive oil.

Amaretto syllabub

This is an Anglo-Italian hybrid: the syllabub is English but the liqueur is Italian in the extreme. It’s utterly delicious and the work of moments – something to pull out when you want to end a dinner party with aplomb.

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