Advice & Inspiration For Your Garden

Strawberry Cranachan

Start preparing this the day before, so the dairy filling can set in the fridge overnight and then be assembled and the fruit add in no time when ready to serve. We serve these in clear glass tum

Strawberry and passion-fruit granita

Hardly needing a recipe, this is a super-quick and easy pudding. Strawberries and passion fruit are both sweet, so you don’t need the usual piles of sugar of the average granita. The occasional crunch

Squash and Feta Filo Parcels

One of our favourite things to serve for our Garden Open café lunches, filled with squash, courgettes, spinach, chard, grated beetroot, fennel, or a mixture of veg. You can make these in batches and f

Primavera Risotto

A Venetian classic which always looks as good as it tastes, with the first, tender mini beans, asparagus and mangetouts of the season. For 4–5:About 450g selection of new vegetables, such as aspar

citrus fruit salad

Ideally, make this with super-nutritious blood oranges, but if they're not available, use the best standard oranges, such as Navels. It's healthy and delicious.serves 4 4 blood oranges 2 p

spinach, sorrel and pine nuts tart

There are plenty of summer tarts that are best eaten warm, but this one is also good cold. I love the combination of spinach and sorrel, but spinach also works well on its own.serves 6-8 300g s

classic onion tart

This is the most delicious tart. It has more onions than usual – and lots and lots of nutmeg.serves 6-8 For the pastry: 180g flour Pinch of salt 50g lard 50g butter 1 tablespoon grated Parme

beetroot and mint falafel with super-nutritious tzatziki

Falafels are usually fried, or even deep-fried, but these are baked in the oven for a lighter, less calorific version. Ideal served with our super-nutritious tzatziki, some pitta and plenty of s

roasted tomato soup

serves 6 as a main course, 8 as a starter 1kg ripe tomatoes 2 roughly chopped fennel bulbs (about 400g) 2 large quartered onions 3 tbsp cold-pressed rapeseed oil 3 crushed garlic cloves2 tbsp (ab

beetroot, yoghurt and hazelnut salad recipe

In this recipe tutorial, Sarah Raven shows you how she prepares and cooks fresh beetroot and then arranges a simple Greek salad with a tahini yoghurt dressing with toasted hazelnuts and wild oregano.A

kalette, squash and parmesan salad recipe

You can make this salad with Brussels sprouts or kalettes (also called flower sprouts), which have been bred from crossing kale and Brussels sprouts. Kalettes have a slightly sweeter taste than

juicy summer pudding recipe

The best summer pudding is made with Panettone or brioche, not sliced white bread. You can use any combination of fruit, even gooseberries, but don't use too many blackcurrants as they will

Japanese griddled courgettes recipe

This is as simple as it comes, but is so delicious, I could eat it on its own and it's excellent with almost any fish or meat. Use a mix of colours – yellow, dark green, light green courgett

summer garden tempura recipe

If you boil purple French beans, they turn a dark grey-green. By dipping them raw and whole into tempura batter and then shallow-frying them, they stay looking fantastic and taste even better.

stuffed courgette flowers with honey recipe

You don't often see courgette flowers for sale in the UK, but if you do, buy them. If you grow courgettes, pumpkins or squash, you'll have plenty of these in your garden, though you might be

split pea and mint croquettes recipe

Healthy, sustaining and absolutely delicious. I love this sort of imprecise recipe (from Crete) where you can suit yourself, adding mint one time and cumin the next. The sauce is equally delicio