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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Houmous recipes
Ultimate instant houmous
Make your best ever homemade houmous with chef Helen Graham's recipe. This instant houmous is creamy, silky and ready in minutes.
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Pickled recipes
Giardiniera
Giardiniera are crunchy Italian pickles, commonly served in the north as an antipasti, that are incredibly moreish and simple to make.
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Easy starter recipes
Socca (or farinata) with prawns, chickpeas and peppers
Debora Robertson shares her easy recipe for the Provençal chickpea flatbread, socca. This popular snack is known as farinata in Italy.
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Easy salmon recipes
Salmon and avocado summer rolls
Uyen Luu shares her recipe for salmon and avocado summer rolls. Vietnamese rice paper rolls are stuffed with salmon, avo and fresh herbs.
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Recipes using chickpeas
Bangladeshi shingara chaat
This colourful chaat is inspired by shingara (Bangladeshi samosas). Potatoes, chickpeas and papri chaat are topped with yogurt and chutney.
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Eid recipes
Bangladeshi chola bhuna chaat
This colourful chaat recipe is based on a classic snack of sautéed chickpeas, enjoyed at home and as a street food in Bangladesh
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Tomato recipes
Tomato, mango and burrata chaat
India meets Italy in Gurdeep Loyal's tomato, mango and burrata chaat. This recipe is a remix of caprese salad with a chaat street-food twist.
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Harissa recipes
Harissa and sweetcorn samosa chaat
Food writer Gurdeep Loyal's colorful, crunchy harissa and sweetcorn samosa chaat is inspired by his favourite Indian cinema snacks.
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Scotch egg recipes
Pickled walnut scotch eggs
Few things that improve a picnic more than a homemade scotch egg. These pickled walnut scotch eggs take just 35 minutes to make.
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Sweetcorn recipes
Elotes (Mexican-style street corn)
Corn on the cob is the sweet taste of summer. Elotes – Mexican grilled corn – takes things to a different level with a zingy cheesy topping.
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Courgette recipes
Courgette and feta filo triangles
Courgettes retain their sticky juiciness once baked in these crisp filo triangles. The perfect late-summer picnic bites or party nibbles.
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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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