March Recipes

For this recipe you could also use soya beans instead of cannellini beans, but increase the cooking time by 1,5 hours.

• Serves: 5 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: > 2hours

Soya contains isoflavones which can help with menopausal symptoms, like hot flushes and mood swings. The essential fatty acids in the seeds can help with stiffness in the joints as well as brittle nails and hair. Pumpkin seeds are high in zinc and sesame seeds are high in calcium - so as well as b...

• Serves: 8-10 • Preparation Time: 30 minutes • Cooking Time: 60-75 minutes

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 0

Seasonal fact: because root vegetables store pretty well, you can still get British grown celeriac, turnips, carrots and onions in March.

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

A vegan recipe using Greek style cheese from Bute Island, couscous and dates.

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

Using kale and carrots, this soup has high levels of beta-carotene, which your body transforms into vitamin A. Use Engevita to make this dish vegan.

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

Keto coffee with MCT oil and grass-fed butter.

• Serves: 1 • Preparation Time: 5 - 10 minutes

Keto coffee with MCT oil and grass-fed butter.

• Serves: 1 • Preparation Time: 5 - 10 minutes

Keto coffee with MCT oil and grass-fed butter.

• Serves: 1 • Preparation Time: 5-10 minutes

This lentil dish is vegan, seasonal and gluten free. Because you are only using onions and chives as 'vegetables', you can eat this seasonally from March right until the end of October.

• Serves: 2-3 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Spicy vegetarian burgers with (homemade) piccalilli.

• Serves: 2-3 • Cooking Time: 45-60 minutes

This lentil soup is a right winter warmer. It uses leeks, potatoes, brown lentils, rosemary. It also uses sausages; occasionally eating 'wild' meat is better than farmed meat, because of animal welfare and CO2 emissions from farmed livestock. For this recipe I've used venison sausages which should b...

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: 35 - 45 minutes

This shake can be used as part of a training regime when you need energy fast.

Nettle soup is not weird, not awful and not stingy! Go on, have a try! This deep-green soup is high in certain minerals and vitamins. They are extremely high in vitamin A (40% compared to 28% in carrots!). They are also high in calcium and iron, minerals women need lots of.

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

Another recipe given to us by our customer, Ingrid.

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

Kale is available from November until March, but if you have a greenhouse, you can sow it in autumn and harvest it in Spring. A simple dish for your fish day.

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

Dahl is an important part of Indian cuisine and often eaten with rice and vegetables. It’s a very healthy way of getting enough protein in your diet and red lentils also contain lots of fibre and vitamin B, essential for a proper nervous system.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 15 minutes • Cooking Time: 30-45 minutes

Tasty vegan sandwich is made with beetroot sauerkraut, gherkins, mushrooms and rye bread. Recipe is courtesy of Biona.

• Serves: 3 • Preparation Time: 15 minutes • Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Enjoy Spring with these tasty pancakes!

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 5 minutes

Using frozen vegetables, although not seasonal, is good for the planet too as it is frozen at the time of harvest in the UK and therefore doesn't come from the other side of the world.

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

This pasta dish uses green ingredients, like spinach pasta, basil tofu and garden peas. You can also use purslane instead of rocket leaves!

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

Chock-a-block with winter vegetables, this dairy free, gluten free and vegan lasagne is bound to please everyone!

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes • Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Sadly, I couldn’t find a gluten free and vegan/vegetarian mince, so I’ve gone for the gluten free one. The Quorn vegetarian mince contains egg white, so is not suitable for vegans. There is a vegan one available from Vegi Deli, but that’s made with wheat flour, so not gluten free.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 120 minutes • Cooking Time: 25-30 minutes

Another warming soup. Soups are great meals if you serve them with some (rye) bread spread with almond butter, butter, margarine or cheese.