Sun-Kissed Summer Recipes: Savouring the Season's Flavours
Wondering what's in season this summer? Explore our complete guide, packed with delicious seasonal recipes to complement the flavours of the season.
Eating seasonally means enjoying fruits and vegetables when they're at their best - fresh, tasty, and packed with nutrients. It also helps out local farmers and cuts down on the environmental impact of shipping food long distances. Plus, you get to mix up your meals with different foods throughout the year, making your diet even more exciting. To make eating seasonally even easier, consider signing up for a fruit and vegetable box service like Oddbox, which prioritises local growers. To check if we deliver to your area click here.
Seasonal Summer Fruits:
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Blackcurrants
- Cherries
- Strawberries
- Rhubarb
- Raspberries
- Plums
Vegetables In Season In Summer:
- Aubergine
- Beetroot
- Broccoli
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Chillies
- Courgettes
- Garlic
- Fennel
- Cucumber
- Lettuce
- Tomatoes
Summer Breakfast Recipes
During the summer months, indulge in deliciously fruity breakfasts bursting with strawberries, blueberries, and cherries. Alternatively, savour a savoury breakfast featuring broccoli, tomatoes, and garlic.
Croissants Filled with Blueberry Compote
Golden croissants filled with a warm and saucy blueberry compote. The leftover compote can be used on porridge, pancakes or yoghurt (or vegan yoghurt).
Cherry & Chocolate Overnight Oats
This classic cherry and chocolate flavour pairing is perfect for breakfast meal prep and batch cooking.
One Pan Purple Sprouting Broccoli Huevos Rancheros
This quick, one-pan Mexican-inspired recipe makes the perfect for brunch or midweek supper. The sprouting broccoli is cooked in chopped tomatoes with garlic, chilli and eggs (or tofu).
Summer Lunch Ideas
During summer, fill your lunches with aubergine, beetroot, cauliflower, and a hint of spicy chilli for an extra kick.
Zero-Waste Chickpea Stuffed Aubergines
This super easy aubergine recipe is perfect for lunch or dinner all year round. Give it a go!
Beetroot Salad with Parsley, Candied Walnut & Feta
Grating beetroot is a great way to enjoy it raw and cut down the cooking time. We've served it with fresh parsley, rocket, crunchy candied walnuts and crumbled feta.
Cauliflower Rice Sushi Bowl
Sesame-dressed cauliflower rice topped with colourful vegetables, nori seaweed paper and a creamy spicy vegan mayonnaise. Add your whatever you've got leftover, and play around with the toppings.
Summer Dinner Ideas
During this season, dinners revolve around the goodness of fennel, courgette, and broccoli - a perfect way to meet your daily five-a-day quota.
Fennel Pasta
A quick pasta recipe with simple ingredients that is packed with flavours! Make sure your fennel is chopped very small to get a creamier sauce consistency.
Courgette Risotto
Vibrant green vegetables join the earthy flavours of curry powder in this creamy weeknight risotto. Packed with onion, courgette and peas, the zesty lemon and creamy parmesan finishes this dish.
Tenderstem Broccoli Pesto Pasta
A green and creamy broccoli pesto made with blanched tenderstem broccoli, sunflower seeds, basil, lemon and parmesan.
Summer Desserts
Remember the sweet treats! During summer, fill your desserts with an abundance of berries and rhubarb, or get creative with beetroot as a natural sweetener alternative.
Rhubarb Oat Cookies
These rhubarb oat cookies are sweet, tangy, and almost certainly unlike any other cookie you've had before. Made with easy-to-find ingredients and freshly chopped rhubarb, these cookies are one of the best rhubarb desserts to enjoy this spring.
Blueberry & Lemon Scones
These scones are extra buttery, flakey, loaded with blueberries, lemon zest and topped with the sweetest lemon juice and poppy seed glaze. Quick, easy and packed with delicious flavours.
Nutty Beetroot Brownies
These deliciously fudgy brownies are packed full of earthy goodness from the beetroot – using the beets also means less sugar and butter. These brownies are a wonderful use for the humble beetroot and perfect alongside a cup of tea or coffee. They also keep wonderfully in a tupperware for a few days – if they last that long!
Summer Drinks
Feeling thirsty? Why not mix up a cool summer drink after all that time cooking?
Blueberry Rose Spritz
Turn your blueberries into a puree and mix with rose wine and Aperol to make a delicious cocktail. The blueberry puree can be made in advance and stored in the fridge or freezer in ice cubes. Ready for express cocktail making all summer long.
Peach Iced Tea
Here's how to make peach iced tea at home in under 30 minutes with just three ingredients: peaches, tea bags and sugar.
