Recipes Section - Vegetable Recipes

Recipes where the prime ingredient is a vegetable

Baked Penne with Courgettes and Tomatoes Recipe

Recipe for Baked Penne with Courgettes and Tomatoes. Serves 4. A filling main course meal on its own. Nice served with a green side salad.

Spiced Vegetables with Lentils Recipe

Recipe for Spiced Vegetables with Lentils. Goes well with brown rice or with some crusty bread to dip up the sauce. Serves 4.

Cauliflower Fritters Recipe

Recipe for Cauliflower Fritters. Do not cook too many fritters at once or the fat will cool and the fritters will be greasy. A tasty side dish or snack.

Lettuce and Peas Recipe

Recipe for Lettuce and Peas. A good way to use up bolting lettuces. You can omit the single cream or crème fraîche if you're calorie conscious.

Spinach Pancakes with Creamed Cheese and Chives Recipe

Recipe for Spinach Pancakes with Creamed Cheese and Chives. Makes 4 x 2 pancake servings. Serve with a salad as a light meal.

Vegetarian Sweet and Sour with Eggs Recipe

Recipe for Vegetarian Sweet and Sour with Eggs. Serve with white, long grain rice. Enough for 4 people.

Cabbage and Broad Bean Risotto Recipe

Recipe for Cabbage and Broad Bean Risotto. Sweet and tender new season broad beans combined with spring cabbage make this a fresh and tasty risotto.

Vegetables with Brown Rice Recipe

Recipe for Vegetables with Brown Rice. Serves 4. A delicious vegetarian meal on its own.

Green Beans with Herbs and Cheese Recipe

Recipe for Green Beans with Herbs and Cheese. A tasty side dish or part of a main course meal. Serves 4. Try an alternate hard cheese in place of parmesan.

Spinach and Cheese Dumplings Recipe

Recipe for Spinach and Cheese Dumplings. Nice accompanied with a spicy tomato sauce. Serves 4.

Greek Style Green Beans Recipe

Recipe for Greek Style Green Beans. Can be served hot or allowed to cool, then covered and chilled. With thanks to a Greek restaurant owner for this recipe

Luxury Baked Potatoes Recipe

Recipe for Luxury Baked Potatoes. You can also mix the peas and chives into the mashed potato mix instead if you want. Serves 4.

Broccoli Grill Recipe

Recipe for Broccoli Grill. Serve hot with crusty, wholemeal bread. Enough for 4 to 6 people as a tasty side dish.

Courgettes with Tomatoes Recipe

Recipe for Courgettes with Tomatoes. Serve hot with boiled brown rice. Enough for 4 people.

Another Vegetable Layer Recipe

Recipe for Another Vegetable Layer. Goes well with boiled long-grain rice. Serves 4.

Vegetable Platter Recipe

Recipe for Vegetable Platter. Serve immediately with crusty bread to mob up the sauce. Serves 4.

Cucumber and Green Tomato Relish Recipe

Recipe for Cucumber and Green Tomato Relish. Makes 3 -4 lbs (1.4 kg - 1.8 kg) of relish. Another way to use up some of those green tomatoes!

Sweet Corn & Pepper Relish

Recipe for Sweet Corn and Pepper Relish. A barbecue without a sweetcorn relish just isn't a barbecue. It works even better with vegetarian burgers.

Red Cabbage and Onion Pickle

Recipe for Red Cabbage and Onion Pickle. Ready after 1-2 weeks and goes particularly well with all type of sausages. Makes about 3 lb (1.7 kg) of Pickle.

Beetroot and Horseradish Pickle

Recipe for Beetroot and Horseradish Pickle. Makes about 2½ lbs (1.35 kg) of Pickle. An unusual combination of flavours that works surprisingly well.

Pickled Peppers Recipe

Recipe for Pickled Peppers. Makes about 3 lbs (1.4 kg) of Pickled Peppers. Allow 6 weeks for the complex flavours to develop fully.

Hot Piccalilli Recipe

Recipe of Hot Piccalilli. A combination of most vegetables can be used for Picalilli but root vegetables don't tend to work very well.

Mild Piccalilli Recipe

Recipe for Mild Piccalilli. A combination of most vegetables can be used for Picalilli but root vegetables don’t tend to work very well.

Marrow Chutney Recipe

Recipe for Marrow Chutney. Makes about 4 lbs (1.8 kg) of Marrow Chutney. You can also use this recipe for those overgrown courgettes!

Tomato Chutney Recipe

Recipe for Tomato Chutney. It's not just green tomatoes that you end up with a glut of but ripe tomatoes too. Use this recipe to use up some of the surplus.

Lettuce Vinegar Recipe

Recipe for Lettuce Vinegar. This mixture makes a fantastic dressing when spooned over fish and chips, try it with cauliflower cheese or macaroni cheese.

Savoury Welsh Surprise Recipe

Recipe for Savoury Welsh Surprise. Another way for those leeks - the traditional national emblem of Wales. Quick and easy to make. Serves 4.

Potato and Tomato Pancake Recipe

Recipe for Potato and Tomato Pancake. Serves 4. A sprinkling of oregano over the tomatoes goes well. And, for non-veggies, diced streaky bacon can be used

Cheese and Vegetable Yorkshire Pudding Recipe

Recipe for Cheese and Vegetable Yorkshire Pudding. A delicious side dish that goes well with Baked Tomatoes. Serves 4.

Savoury Spinach Pie Recipe

Recipe for Savoury Spinach Pie. A filling main course dish that serves 4. Another way to get your greens.

Egg and Vegetable Pie Recipe

Recipe for Egg and Vegetable Pie. A really tasty, quick and healthy dinner with a goodly portion of spinach. Serves 4.

Vegetable and Egg Casserole Recipe

Recipe for Vegetable and Egg Casserole. Use up some bits and bobs of cooked vegetables in this filling casserole dish. Serves 4.

Belgian Stew Recipe

Recipe for Belgian Stew. Serves 4. A very filling main course meal.

Eggs Florentine Recipe

Recipe for Eggs Florentine. Makes 2 - 4 portions as breakfast or side dish. Serve hot.

Curry Relish Recipe

Recipe for Curry Relish. Strangely this doesn't work well with curry but it really brightens sausages up. Makes about 3 lbs (1.4 kg) of relish.

Beetroot, Cabbage and Horseradish Relish Recipe

Recipe for Beetroot, Cabbage and Horseradish Relish. The amount of horseradish can be varied depending on whether you like it strong or mild.

Chilli Pepper Relish Recipe

Recipe for Chilli Pepper Relish. A relish with attitude! You can vary the hotness by altering the amount and type of chillies.

Tomato Relish Recipe

Recipe for Tomato Relish. No cooking at all! This uncooked relish has a really fresh summery taste. Makes about 5 lbs (2.3 kg) of Tomato Relish.

Mathews’ Marrow Pickle

Recipe for Mathews' Marrow Pickle. This recipe is probably over 200 years old Delicious with cold meats and cheese Useful for over grown courgettes as well

Pickled French Beans Recipe

Recipe for Pickled French Beans. Store in a cool, dark place until required. Makes about 4 lb (1.8 kg) of flavour filled pickle

Cauliflower and Tomato Pickle Recipe

Recipe for Cauliflower and Tomato Pickle. Makes about 2.3. kg (5 lbs) of Cauliflower and Tomato Pickle. Ready to eat in about 4 weeks.

Mixed Pickle Recipe

Recipe for Mixed Pickle. For an extra kick, add 1 dried chilli pepper to each jar A good standard pickle that goes well with a traditional ploughman's lunch

Tangy Piccalilli Recipe

Recipe for Tangy Piccalilli A variation on standard piccalilli The only constant with piccalilli is the turmeric which gives the distinctive yellow colour.

Baked Aubergine and Tomato Recipe

Recipe for Baked Aubergine and Tomato. Serves 4 as a main course. A sprinkling of breadcrumbs over the top before baking goes well.

Russian Potatoes Recipe

Recipe for Russian Potatoes. Serves 4. Use as a side dish or part of a main course meal.

Jerusalem Artichoke Pie Recipe

Recipe for Jerusalem Artichoke Pie. Best served hot straight out of the oven with a green salad. Serves 4.

Beetroot Chutney Recipe

Recipe for Beetroot Chutney. Tasty on meat sandwiches or added to salads. Spice it up a bit by adding a couple of habanero chillies when cooking!

Aubergine Casserole Recipe

Recipe for Aubergine Casserole. A delicious summer dish that can be served hot or cold. If serving hot, an ideal accompaniment to grilled or roast lamb.

Vegetarian Cottage Pie Recipe

Recipe for Vegetarian Cottage Pie. Put in a medium oven and cook for about 30 minutes until golden on the top. Serves 4.

Mint Jelly Recipe

Recipe for Mint Jelly. This makes a different accompaniment for lamb from the traditional mint sauce. It's really nice on new potatoes as well.

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