April's foods in season and what to cook with them


Updated on 04 April 2018 | 0 Comments

Here are the foods that are at their best in April and some great recipe ideas.

April is marked by sunny evenings and the fields springing into life. It's a great month to cook with local and seasonal ingredients. Here are a few ideas...

Vegetables

It’s time to start digging up those spuds, with Jersey royals appearing in most supermarkets and maincrops also starting to surface. It’s watercress season too, so spice up your early season salads with its peppery tang alongside cucumber, lettuce and spring onions. Good green vegetables include peas, spinach and purple-sprouting broccoli.

If you're foraging, don't forget wild garlic and wild nettles.

Try...

Wild garlic and mushroom tartlets with wild garlic pesto

Broad bean, quinoa, watercress and feta salad

Ching-He Huang's hoisin chicken lettuce cups

Rack of lamb with mustard mash and minted peas

New potatoes with pickled samphire and sorrel

Joe Woodhouse/Bloomsbury Publishing

Meat

Lamb and rabbit are two spring favourites, with new season lamb now bounding into supermarkets and butchers. Or get crackling with a nice piece of pork.

Try...

Harissa-spiced lamb burgers

Rice rubble crispy chicken

Citrus-roast rack of pork

Toasted ale pulled pork sandwiches

Heston Blumenthal's roast leg of lamb

Heston Blumenthal for Waitrose

Seafood

Once the weather warms up, there are few things better than eating well-dressed crab, crayfish and lobster sandwiches at the seaside. Or you can stick to the shellfish with oysters and cuttlefish. Fish-wise, choices include salmon, sea trout and hake

Try...

Quick crab linguini

Crayfish mac 'n' cheese

Cuttlefish with meatballs and peas

No-potato fishcakes

Salmon, fennel and spelt salad

Norwegian Seafood Council 

Fruit

If you just can’t wait until summer, get your fix of red fruits with frozen berries – or start planting your own strawberries. Meanwhile, greater quantities of lemons and oranges are now coming in from the Mediterranean rather than the Middle East.

Try...

New York cheesecake with berry compote

Nettle and lemon cake

Raspberry and yogurt tea loaf

Orange and passionfruit cake

Lemon roulade

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