Ainsley Harriott pistachio, lemon and polenta cakes recipe on Ainsley’s Good Mood Food

Ainsley Harriott served up delicious gluten-free pistachio, lemon and polenta cakes with lemon syrup icing on Ainsley’s Good Mood Food.

Ingredients are: 200g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing, 100g shelled unsalted pistachios, 200g golden caster sugar, 3 large eggs, 50g ground almonds, 100g fine polenta, zest and juice of ½ lemon,.

For the Lemon Syrup: 40g sugar and zest and juice of 2½ lemons.

To Decorate: 10 tbsp icing sugar, zest and juice of 1 lemon and 2 tbsp shelled unsalted pistachios, half finely ground and half roughly chopped.




See recipes by Ainsley in his book titled: Ainsley’s Good Mood Food: 100 easy, comforting meals (including all the recipes from the major ITV series) available from Amazon now.