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!)
Cherry clafoutis with mint

By Créajackole
Stone the cherries and place them in the bottom of a dish covered with a sheet of greaseproof paper
- 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
Grilled chicken curry skewers

By Jeannice du blog A table chéri...
Cut the chicken breasts into 16 cubes of the same size and place them in a container
- 3 chicken breasts (500 gr)
- 125 g plain yoghurt
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic, minced
- 2 tsp curry
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- salt and pepper
Apple and Raspberry Granita

By jive_bunni
Why cook apples when they come in liquid form?! With all the organic apple juice and fresh fruit on the market you
- 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)
Strawberry Eton Mess with vanilla and fresh mint

By Sandrine , blog La table de Sandrine
The strawberry sauce with mint: Heat the water in a saucepan with the sugar over high heat, until boiled to a syr...
- The eton mess:
- 180g fromage blancs
- 2 sheets of gelatine
- 50 g of caster sugar
- 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
- 250 g strawberries
- 200 ml of whipping cream
- The strawberry sauce with mint:
- 150 g strawberries
- 40 ml of water
- 15 g of caster sugar
- 8 mint leaves
- Dressage:
- 2 large meringues
- 1 bunch of mint
- 150 g strawberries
- crystallized mint leaves
- silver leaf
Tomato and mustard tart

By stezermeezers
A simple to make, yet delicious tomato and mustard tart
- 1 ready made pastry
- 3 large beef tomatoes (or regular tomatoes work too)
- 2 tbs dijon mustard
- Ham (optional)
- Hard cheese (i used French comté, but a mature cheddar is fine)
- Grated cheese
- Garlic powder
- Origano
- Salt & pepper
Courgette and goat cheese tart

By Patouetmary , blog Les gourmandises de Patou & Mary
Start by pre-baking your puff pastry in a flan tin at 180 °C for 10-15 mins
- 2 courgettes
- 200g fresh goat cheese
- 1 onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- 2 tbsp crème fraîche
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1 tsp turmeric (or curry)
- Herbs de provence
- puff pastry
Caramelised onion, olive and feta tart

By Katie of blog www.katielovescooking.wordpress.com, Katie Loves Cooking
A tasty tart with the rich, sweet crunch of caramelised onions, creamy saltiness of feta and bite of the olives
- 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
Yummy gooseberry tart

By mira88
Mix the gooseberries with 80g of sugar and leave for at least 2 and a half hours
- 1 cup of gooseberries
- 1 shortcrust pastry
- 80g + 80g sugar (160g total)
- 4 tbsp crème fraîche
- vanilla flavouring
- 50 ml of milk
- 60g of flour
- 3 eggs
Marshmallow and Pineapple Fridge Tart

By JennaC16
Mix lemon juice and condensed milk
- 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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Strawberry verrines 4.3/5 (6 Votes)
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Lemon, cucumber and thyme water
- 1 litre of filtered or spring water
- 6 thin slices of cucumber
- A sprig of thyme
- A couple of lemon slices
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Nutella ice-lollies
- 100ml milk
- 100g Nutella
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Express 'Strapple' Smoothie
- 10 ice cubes
- 150 ml fresh apple juice (homemade if you like, but I used 'not from concentrate' bottle)
- 6 to 8 strawberries
- Squeeze of lemon juice (or lime)
- 1 tbsp honey to sweeten
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Charlotte Strawberry and Rhubarb
- 600g strawberries
- 600g rhubarb
- 5 sheets of gelatine
- 100 to 150g of sugar
- 3 tbsp crème fraîche
- sponge fingers
- 1 tablespoon of rum
- Grenadine syrup or strawberry or red fruit squash
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Snacks, Starters, and Nibbles -...
- 1 400g can chickpeas
- Bunch of Greek basil – though you could use ordinary
- Glugs of Olive oil
- 1 garlic clove chopped
- 75 gm pine nuts – toasted lightly in a dry frying pan
- Good handful of grated pecorino
- 1 red chilli deseeded and chopped
- Salt and pepper
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Peach Melba with Vanilla Ice Cream...
- 4 fresh juicy peaches
- Plain everyday white sugar
- The best vanilla ice cream you can lay your hands on
- Toasted blanched almonds to garnish
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Pollo al Limone
- 1.5 kg chicken thighs (skin on)
- Juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2 sprigs rosemary
- Small handful parsley, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon plain flour
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 250ml white wine
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Ham and confit tomato savoury loaf...
- 150g flour
- 1/2 sachet of yeast
- 3 eggs
- 90g milk
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 150g diced ham
- 15 confit tomatoes
- 150g freshly grated cheese (comté for example for more flavour)
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Rainbow Real fruit Iced cups
- 1 pineapple
- 4 oranges
- 2 kiwi
- 8 strawberries
- 50g blue berries.
- lemonade.
- 8 plastic cups
- cling film
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Cold melon and watermelon soup 4.6/5 (6 Votes)
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Scallops wrapped in smoked bacon...
- 10 scallops
- 10 thin slices of smoky bacon
- 1 red pepper
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