January Recipes

Who doesn't want chocolate on cold, January days? What's even better is that these cupcakes are dairy free and gluten free and made with low GI ingredients!

• Serves: 8 • Preparation Time: 30-40 minutes • Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes

Fresh tomatoes are not in season in January, but you can use canned tomatoes. Go for organic ones if you can, because they have been sprayed a lot less.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10-20 minutes • Cooking Time: 120 minutes

Keep our feathered friends happy and fed this winter. They will thank you for it!

A delicious classic seasonal recipe with a twist. By using tofu of choice instead of real meat, this vegetarian recipe is a treat for everyone.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 15 minutes • Cooking Time: 10 minutes

On the 25th January many Scots eat haggis, neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes). This is a twist on this old time favourite using the same ingredients but in a different way.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10-20 minutes • Cooking Time: 30-40 minutes

A seasonal recipe using seasonal vegetables like celeriac and onions. Simple and quick to make!

• Serves: 3-4 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Another vegan recipe by one of our customers, who made it for Christmas.

• Serves: 2

Using seasonal vegetables like savoy cabbage, turnips and carrots to create a low calorie, high fibre healthy soup.

• Serves: 4-6 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: 70-80 minutes

Yes, pumpkins are still in season! Pumpkins store really well and I have used my own homegrown pumpkin for this recipe which I harvested back in September.

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 10-15 minutes

Chickpeas are the perfect & utterly delicious way to get protein into your diet! Rich in fibre, they are also great energy-boosters, making this recipe a healthy ‘on the go’ savoury snack. Super easy to make, these crunchy roasted chickpeas are made with only 4 ingredients!

• Serves: 2-3 • Preparation Time: 2 minutes • Cooking Time: 35-45 minutes

In the Netherlands these blue podded peas are known as 'Kapucijners'. They grow very well in the UK and have beautiful blue pods. You can dry the peas for using in winter dishes, like this traditional Dutch recipe.

• Serves: 2 • Cooking Time: > 60

This is an authentic Dutch recipe, called Huzarensalade, and is very popular in our household. It is made with potatoes, gherkins and lots of mayonnaise.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 15-25 minutes

This is a very Dutch recipe and is usually served at outdoor ice skating events, where it is known as ‘snert’, which I cannot translate at all. It’s actually more of a winter warmer, but since it has been so cold and winter like, I thought you might enjoy it. Plus, there are no spring greens avail...

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: 120-160 minutes

A dairy free, light cake made with oranges, semolina and honey.

• Serves: 12 • Preparation Time: 25 minutes • Cooking Time: 25 minutes

Although pretty high in saturated fats, if you only have this dish occasionally, it is quite nice. Leeks are in season most of the winter.

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes • Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Mackerel is high in Omega 3 and can be sustainable fished, so good for you and the oceans. Parsnip is a true winter vegetable, available from October right until March.

• Serves: 2-3 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 20-30 minutes

Simply pop your seasonal veg in the oven and glaze with this deliciously versatile dressing.

• Serves: 2-4 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Make this warming gluten free porridge with dairy free almond milk. Cinnamon is great to start the day with. Try not to use table sugar as it will make the blood sugar spike, use low GI substitutes.

• Serves: 1 • Preparation Time: 2 minutes • Cooking Time: 5 minutes

What a brilliant way to get children to like Brussels sprouts!

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes

You can make this seasonal pizza recipe in Summer or Winter as kale is in season in both months.

• Serves: 3-4 • Preparation Time: 30-60 minutes • Cooking Time: 20-30 minutes

Warming winter soup. If you serve it with 100% rye bread and (dairy free) cheese you'll have a simple and nutritious meal.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes

A hearty winter dish with spelt, curly kale, carrots, eggs and veggie bacon. Spelt is an ancient grain eaten by our ancestors thousands of years ago. Some people with wheat intolerance can tolerate spelt, but beware; spelt still contains gluten!

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10-20 minutes • Cooking Time: 10-15 minutes

Sauerkraut is fermented white cabbage as opposed to pickled and shouldn’t contain vinegar. It’s the lacto-fermentation which makes sauerkraut such a healthy vegetable. Sauerkraut is high in digestive enzymes, fat free, cholesterol free and high in vitamin C. It is also quite high in sodium, so sho...

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes • Cooking Time: 35-40 minutes

Simple, tasty, healthy, vegetarian and vegan January recipe. The vegetables in this dish are in season from October until March!

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes