Summer snack recipes
These summer snacks are ideal for enjoying alongside your afternoon aperitivo or to kick off a summer dinner party. From crisp and oozing arancini to an array of dips, there are moreish morsels of joy to suit all tastes here.
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Artichoke recipes
Artichoke and white bean dip
This elegant and summery artichoke dip is one of the best things you can whizz up in your blender. Silky smooth and full of creamy flavour.
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Sustainable recipes
Crispy fish skin crackling
If you love pork crackling, crispy chicken skin or seaweed thins, you’ll love our fishy crisps. These salty crackers are great as a snack.
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Sustainable recipes
Fish scrap croquettes
These herby croquettes filled with fluffy mash and surrounded by a crisp breadcrumb coating are the perfect vehicle for any scraps of fish.
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Dip recipes
Burnt sweetcorn soured cream dip with candied jalapeños
This addictive soured cream dip is excellent with nachos or dolloped on tacos. The charred corn adds an intriguing smoky sweetness.
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Easy vegan recipes
Cumin-spiced mushroom gyros
This plant-based gyros is stuffed with wedges of mushroom and crispy crinkle-cut fries, with the fresh tzatziki and tomato salad.
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Filo pastry recipes
Patlıcanlı rulo börek (Turkish aubergine and pepper filo rolls)
Özlem Warren’s aubergine börek, with their crisp and golden filo pastry, bring a taste of traditional Turkish cuisine to your summer table.
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Scone recipes
Nicola Lamb’s flaky cheese and pickle scones
Cheese scones get the flaky treatment. Rye flour and gherkins in the layers gives these scones a deli-sandwich energy, welcome at any picnic.
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Snacks and nibbles
Crudités with dill mayonnaise
This gorgeous green mayo gets its colour from a simple dill-infused oil. Serve it with a crudités platter for an easy summer starter.
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Raspberry recipes
Raspberry and sesame cheesecake danishes
These easy pastries are like a cheesecake in danish form, with raspberries, a cream cheese base and sweet-salty sesame caramel.
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Crab recipes
Emily Scott’s Cornish crab, toast and mayo
Cornwall-based chef Emily Scott’s recipe for crab on toast is delightfully simple but special, enriched with just a little lemon and garlic.
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Snacks and nibbles
Chilli-pickled asparagus gildas
Said to be the first ever pintxo (the famous bar snacks of the Basque country in northern Spain), our gildas get a seasonal British twist by swapping out the peppers for spicy pickled pieces of asparagus. Delightful!
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Mezze recipes
Spanakopita fritters
Georgina Hayden's snackable take on the Greek favourite spanakopita transforms the classic spinach and feta pie into light, golden fritters.
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Filo pastry recipes
Filo-wrapped feta with spiced honey
Georgina Hayden's easy filo-wrapped feta is a guaranteed crowdpleaser. It's served drizzled with spiced honey and sprinkled with thyme.
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New potato recipes
Patates antinaxtes (pan-fried new potatoes with red wine and coriander)
Georgina Hayden shares her recipe for patates antinaxtes, cracked new potatoes pan-fried with red wine and coriander.
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Harissa recipes
Harissa, feta and filo cigars
Tangy feta meets fiery harissa and sweet honey, in this filo cigars recipe. The perfect pre-dinner bite or fancy snack – no humidor required.
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Bulgar köftesi
Food writer Yasemen Kaner-White shares her family recipe for koftesi, Turkish meatballs made with beef and bulgar wheat.
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