This is a super fresh, summery take on smashed avocado… serve as a dip with crunchy veggies to dunk or dolloped on top of toast for a deliciously light breakfast, brunch or snack.
To serve 2:
Ingredients:
2 handfuls of podded garden peas
1 avocado
A small handful of mint leaves, removed from the stalks
1/4 of a lemon
Olive oil
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
4 slices of bread of your choice, we love using Vegbred
This is the perfect slaw for a hot, sunny day… crunchy, juicy, light and so refreshing!
Ingredients to serve 4 - 6 as a side:
4 sticks of celery
4 spring onions
1/2 cucumber
2 apples
1 handful of fresh mint leaves
The juice of 1 lemon
1 big handful of pumpkin seeds
Sea salt
Olive oil
Method:
Who doesn’t love a bowl of guacamole in the middle of the table to dunk into? We love it dolloped on top of a fresh crunchy salad… piled into a sandwich… topped over tacos or simply to dip a tortilla chip into!
Ingredients for 4 portions:
1/2 red onion
1 green chilli
2 avocados
Juice of 2 limes
Olive oil
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Method:
This is a delicious jumble to make when you’ve got those odd bits and bobs left in the fridge to use up… use the ingredients list as a guideline adding what you have available!
Ingredients to serve 4:
2-3 cloves garlic, finely diced
1 or 2 chillies, seeded and finely diced
A thumb sized piece of ginger, grated or finely diced
1 or 2 peppers, seeded and diced
A handful of mushrooms, diced
2-3 sticks of celery
3-4 spring onions or 2 red onions
2 courgettes, topped, tailed and diced
The English pea season is short and sweet so we like to take any opportunity for maximum pea-licious gobbling! This salad is so fresh, light and zippy, it couldn’t be simpler to make and it is a perfect partner to pretty much any meal.
Ingredients to serve 4 as a side dish:
1 Cos lettuce or 2 Baby Gem lettuces
5 or 6 spring onions
2 handfuls of shelled garden peas
The zest and juice of 1 lemon
2 tbsp of good quality olive oil
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
This is a delicious way to serve some seriously wonderful seasonal ingredients!
For 2 - 3 portions:
350g Jersey Royals, washed and scrubbed
1 - 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and mashed
1 bunch of spring onions, trimmed and finely sliced
Olive oil
Sea salt
Freshly Ground Black pepper
1 handful of mint leaves
Method:
Crushed Roast Rosemary Jersey Royals
The Jersey Royal season is quite short so we love to enjoy them at their best as much as we possibly can! This is a delicious, simple way to serve them... perfect with breakfast, lunch, dinner or just as a snack to gobble with a glass of something chilled.
For 2-3 portions:
350g Jersey Royals, scrubbed
Olive oil or rapeseed oil
2 sprigs of rosemary, leaves only
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Avo’ Nice Day With A Fungi Sandwich
It’s no secret avocado and mushroom is a combo made in vegelicious heaven… join them in a sandwich with a few other delicious veggies and we’re into serious plant powered Manwich territory!
To make a couple of rounds…
2 portobello mushrooms or 4-6 chestnut mushrooms, depending on their size
2 sprigs of thyme
1/2 a red onion, finely sliced
6 sun dried tomato halves
6 baby gem lettuce leaves
1 avocado, sliced
Olive oil
Sea salt
Med Red Soup
Light, fresh and a real taste of sunshine!
Ingredients to serve 3-4:
2 red peppers, deseeded and roughly chopped
2 red onions, peeled and roughly chopped
3 cloves of garlic, peeled and halved
2 sprigs of rosemary, leaves only
2 big handfuls of basil leaves
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Olive oil
The juice of half a lemon
Method:
Sunshine Salad
This is a wonderfully simple salad allowing the tomatoes to really shine. Use whichever tomatoes are your favourite or you have to hand as long as they are fresh, ripe and full of sunshine flavour!
Ingredients to serve 4:
2 big beef tomatoes or 2 big handfuls of vine tomatoes
4 spring onions, finely sliced
1/2 clove of garlic, mashed to a pulp
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tbsp of white wine or red wine vinegar
