These recipes by professional chefs appear on the Allotment Garden TV site and they have accompanying videos that show how to prepare the dish.
Prawn & Pine Nut Lettuce Wraps
Recipe for Prawn & Pine Nut Lettuce Wraps Watch out for a great tip on handling lettuce in the accompanying video
Roast Chicken Breast with Creamy Curly Kale
Recipe for Roast Chicken Breast with Creamy Curly Kale. If you thought gourmet cooking took a long time and a lot of effort, this delicious recipe will make you think again.
Warm Blue Cheese and Spiced Pear Salad
Recipe for Warm Blue Cheese and Spiced Pear Salad. The video shows how to make the blue cheese filo parcels -easy and quick. This dish is an unusual combination of flavours that works amazingly well.
Angela Malik’s Prawn Fried Rice
Recipe for Angela Malik’s Prawn Fried Rice. Filmed at the Angela Malik school of cookery in West London, a complete meal in a wok.
Steamed Seabass with Crushed Soya Beans & Chilli Sauce
Recipe for Steamed Seabass with Crushed Soya Beans & Chilli Sauce. As the video shows, with Chinese cooking the time is in the preparation, the actual cooking taking but moments in the wok. Filmed at the School of Wok in London
Vlad’s Rhubarb Crumble
Recipe for Vlad’s Rhubarb Crumble. The video shows how to macerate the rhubarb prior to cooking as well as the fast way to a perfect crumble in the processor, ending by assembling the dish.
Pineapple and Coconut Cheesecake
Recipe for Pineapple and Coconut Cheesecake. A treat to transport you to the sunny Caribbean regardless of the inclement British weather.
Raw Asparagus Salad with Cured Ham and Crispy Egg
What better way than to enjoy seasonal asparagus than in a nutrient rich, raw salad. Asparagus and eggs go together like bread and butter; here we’ll take a little time to create a deliciously oozing egg with a crispy coating, which will work perfectly.
Steamed Marmalade Pudding
Steamed puddings are a stalwart in every traditional kitchen repertoire, this recipe leaves behind the heavy, one dimensional reputation and replaces it with a light and sticky pudding that is a joy to eat. Look out for the tip on using greaseproof paper as a lid in the accompanying video
A summer salad of Parma ham, peaches, cashew nuts and goat’s cheese
This salad is an absolute delight, whether it’s a light lunch or something to take along to a summer barbecue. The dressing works with any salad, and can be made and kept in a jar in your fridge.
Strawberries with Sabayon Sauce
Recipe for Strawberries with Sabayon Sauce Although a little tricky, the video shows you how to make the perfect sabayon sauce to enhance the strawberries or other berry fruits in this simple but sophisticated dish
Stir Fried Sichuan Chicken
Recipe for Stir Fried Sichuan Chicken The video of this recipe shows you how to use your wok – as you’d expect from ‘The Wok School’
Crab and tomato ravioli with courgettes, tomato water and basil
Summer brings us wonderful delights in the garden and allows us to enjoy light dishes that are packed with flavour. The video shows how easy it is to make your own pasta,
Cured Mackerel Sushi
Recipe for Cured Mackerel Sushi. The accompanying video shows you how to fillet a mackerel and how to cook perfect sushi rice before demonstrating how to make your own authentic sushi.
Curried parsnip soup with parsnip crisps
Recipe for Curried parsnip soup with parsnip crisps.The video shows you exactly how to toast the coriander and cumin seeds as well as how to prepare the parsnips for the parsnip crisps to accompany the flavourful curried parsnip soup.
