Summer recipes - 147 recipes
Sea, sun and summer recipes! Summer is the time to eat all the colours of rainbow in the one dish - vibrant salads, alfresco dinners, aubergine tapas, red-ripe tomato and mozzarella starters, a Sunday strawberry tart. Make the most of fresh and healthy summer produce!
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Top rated Summer recipes
Non-alcoholic Mojito Smoothie!
By Jojobean
Fresh and summery! This smoothie recipe, with its twist of fresh lime and the added lime sorbet, gives it a power
- 4 scoops Lime sorbet
- 1/2 fresh Lime
- Fresh mint
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- Soda water (or for extra energy, add a dash of Redbull or similar energy drink!)
Healthy Ratatouille
By Harriet
Full of vegetables, this ratatouille will rock your socks
- 1 Onion (Peeled and Chopped)
- 1 Clove of Garlic (Peeled and Crushed)
- 1 Small Aubergine (Diced)
- 1 Green Pepper (De-seeded and Chopped)
- 1 Courgette (Sliced)
- 2 Cans Chopped Tomatoes
- 10ml Oil (any type is suitable)
- 1 Handful Fresh Basil
Sautéed haddock with summer veg
By Wackyjacky
Tasty fish and veg main course, perfect for making an impression at a dinner party
- For the summer veg
- 700g new potatoes
- 350g button onions, peeled
- 5 tbsp olive oil
- 2 ½ tbsp lemon juice
- 24 asparagus spears
- 150ml half-fat crème fraîche
- 1-2 tbsp capers, finely chopped
- knob of butter
- 250g punnet cherry tomatoes, halved
- For the fish
- flour seasoned with salt, for dusting
- 6 x 175g fillets of fresh haddock, skinned
- 2-3 tbsp olive oil
- knob of butter
Strawberry Tart
By laurence A
Cook the pastry, empty, in a flan tin with weights, for about 30 minutes
- 1 sweet pastry or puff pastry
- Crème pâtissière (custard cream):
- - 1/2 litre of milk, boiling hot
- - 80 g sugar
- - 4 yolks
- - 45 g cornstarch
- - 1/2 vanilla bean or vanilla extract
- - 20 g butter
- - 500 g strawberries
- - 1 small bunch mint leaves
- - 30g icing sugar
Lemon Ice Lollies with Liquorice Sticks
By wendymcc
Put the Water and Sugar into a pan, bring to the boil and leave on the heat for 3 minutes
- 8 Liquorice Sticks
- 450ml Water
- 100g Sugar
- Juice from 1 Large lemon
Raspberry tart
By MARJORY
Roll out the pastry and place into a flan tin
- 750g ripe and fragrant raspberries.
- 1 roll of shortcrust pastry.
- Filling:
- 20 cl of creme fraiche.
- 3 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- 2 eggs
- and a few mint leaves
Summer feta and green veg lasagne
By Katie of blog www.katielovescooking.wordpress.com, Katie Loves Cooking
A lasagne full of gorgeous summery flavours and topped with pretty asparagus tips
- Oil
- 3 cloves crushed garlic
- Half a 30g tin anvhovies, chopped
- Load of asparagus, tips left intact and rest chopped
- 4 spring onions, chopped
- Few handfuls peas
- Few handfuls spinach
- 300ml single cream
- Bunch of fresh mint, chopped
- Grated zest of 1/2 a lemon
- 2 blocks of feta
- Bit of veg stock if necessary (I used Veg oxo cubes in boiled water)
- Lasagne sheets
Courgette and salmon crème brulée with a whipped goat cheese cream
By BERNHARD
Preparation of the whipped cream: Mix the goat cheese with all ingredients
- For the crème brûlée
- 200 g courgettes
- 2 slices of smoked salmon
- 3 egg yolks
- 20 cl of single cream
- 10 cl of milk
- 25 g Parmesan + 1 tablespoon
- salt and pepper
- For the whipped goat cheese
- 1 small fresh goat cheese
- 20 cl of single cream
- 10 cl of milk
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Tiffany Goodall’s Beetroot, British Asparagus & Smoked Salmon Salad with a Yoghurt and Pepper Dressing
By Love Beetroot, Visit the Love Beetroot site
“This salad is a gorgeous starter for late summer, and the horseradish gives it a perfect kick against the so...
- 1 pack (approx. 125g) asparagus tips
- 135g watercress and salad leaves
- 100g smoked salmon
- 2 cooked beetroot dipped in vinegar (not pickled), cut into eighths
- For the dressing:
- 3 tbsp horseradish cream
- 2 tbsp Rachel’s Organic Natural Yogurt
- 1 tsp white wine vinegar
- Black pepper to season
- 1 lemon, juiced
Salmon & broccoli cakes
By hanzvallance
vegetable-packed salmon fishcakes, served with a fresh salad
- 500g potatoes, cut into chunks
- 85g broccoli, cut into small florets
- pack of 2 poached salmon fillets
- juice 1 lemon, plus wedges to serve
- small bunch dill, chopped
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
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BBQ'd Pineapple
- One pineapple,
- one shot of rum,
- 2 tbsp dark brown soft sugar,
- 4 tbsp melted butter,
- 1 tsp ground ginger
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Café Frappe - Greek Iced Coffee
- 2 tsp instant coffee
- 1 - 2 tsp sugar
- Ice cubes, crushed
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 1/3 cup milk, chilled
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Soya cream of peppers soup
- 3-4 peppers
- 20 ml soya cream or creme fraiche
- salt
- pepper
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Caramelised onion, olive and feta...
- Olive oil
- 3 red onions, roughly chopped
- 2 tbsp soft light brown sugar/light muscovado sugar
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 375g ready-rolled puff pastry
- 100g feta or goats cheese, crumbled
- 175g pitted black olives, chopped in half
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Cherry clafoutis with mint
- 180g flour
- 4 eggs
- 150g Sugar
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
- ½ l milk
- 1 dash of cream
- 25g butter
- 1 kg of cherries
- A few leaves of fresh mint
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Steamed Sea Bream
- Fresh whole sea bream (sea bass is a really popular choice as well!), approximately 300-400g
- 2 tbs light soy sauce
- 2 cloves of garlic, sliced
- about 3-4 cherry tomatoes, or 1 regular tomato, sliced into wedges
- good splash of shaoxing wine
- 1/2 tbs vinegar
- pinch of pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 slices of ginger, thinly shredded
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Apple and Raspberry Granita
- 2-3 bottles of an organic apple juice of your choice
- 1 punnet of raspberries
- 1-2 apples (sweet or tangy depending on your taste)
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Smooth Moves
- Excess of fruit? Bananas too ripe? Apples just too quantusome? Don't know what that means? Well neither do I...
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- 3 bananas
- 1 apple (golden delicious are good)
- 10 medium sized strawberries
- Two tbsps of natural Greek yoghurt
- Splash of cranberry juice
- More fruit if desired!!
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Marshmallow and Pineapple Fridge...
- 150 g marshmallows, melted in the microwave
- 5 ml vanilla essence
- 250 ml cream
- 1 can condensed milk
- 100 g crushed pineapple
- 125 ml lemon juice
- 1 prepared crushed biscuit crumb crust
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Citrus fish bites with Thai...
- 1/2 x 350g jar Loyd Grossman Yellow Thai Curry Sauce
- 1 large tuna or salmon fillet
- ½ lemon - juice only
- 1 lime – juice only
- Pinch of black pepper
- Pinch of chilli flakes
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Grilled chicken curry skewers
- 3 chicken breasts (500 gr)
- 125 g plain yoghurt
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic, minced
- 2 tsp curry
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zazziki
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