April Recipes

Cauliflower should be available from mid to late April. You can use dried or tinned chickpeas. Add extra time when using dried chickpeas.

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

A thick, warming traditional Irish dish, with Dulse seaweed for an extra rich savoury flavour.

• Serves: 6 • Preparation Time: 15-25 minutes • Cooking Time: 30-45 minutes

A healthy spring cleansing dahl made with weeds, like sorrel and cleavers.

• Serves: 2 • Cooking Time: 40 minutes

This fried rice uses carrots and leeks, which are still available. And when you have grown them yourself, these will be the last before the new lot is ready!

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 10-20 minutes • Cooking Time: 60 minutes

If you fancy adding a little bit of luxury to your breakfast or evening meal then this cream gourmet omelette is worth a try.

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

Ground elder was introduced to the UK by the Romans as a vegetable who loved eating it, so why don't we? Ground elder can be cooked like spinach and substituted as such. Quick and simple to make!

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 5 minutes • Cooking Time: 10 minutes

A pub favourite, but with a healthy twist

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

This is a tasty variety to the original nettle soup. Nettles are very healthy indeed and what way better than to weed your garden and have a free meal in the process?? One note of caution: nettles are quiet easily identified, but make sure you know what you're picking is nettle and ground elder! A ...

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

A delicious, spicy pickle of carrot and radishes, which are in season now and the coming months.

• Serves: 2-3 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: 5-10 minutes

Simple, nutritious, vegan, and ideal for picnics!

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 30 minutes

A green soup to celebrate the start of Spring! If you can't find sorrel, you can substitute it with spinach, although sorrel has a slightly acidic flavour. Sorrel can't be consumed by people suffering from kidney stones.

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 25-30 minutes

Spinach should be available from now on, as it is one of the first greens to grow.

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 15 minutes • Cooking Time: 25-30 minutes

Tempeh is made from fermented cooked soya beans. It is very popular in Indonesia and other Eastern countries. The firm texture and slightly nutty flavour makes tempeh a flavoursome alternative to tofu.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 5 minutes • Cooking Time: 10-15 minutes

Who says you can’t have chocolate puddings without dairy?! I thought it would be hard to get a soft consistency, but the whipped Soyatoo cream worked really well and in a blind taste test, dairy eaters, wouldn't realize this chocolate pudding is actually vegan!

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: 240 minutes

This Pad Thai recipe is absolutely delicious.

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

As long as you know which weed is which, you can make very healthy dishes for virtually nothing!

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