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Big sausage rolls
We love a sausage roll but it’s hard to get good ones and even harder to know if the pork in them is free-range or organic. Far better to...
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Black pudding Scotch eggs
We never tire of eating black pudding and eggs – together or individually. They are what the French call meilleurs amis. We like to eat...
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Carrot Hummus
Another delicious member of the ever-expanding family of River Cottage hummi. It’s lovely with crudités, warm garlicky flatbreads or pitta...
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Carrot, orange and chervil salad
This is one of those simple combinations of just a few ingredients that complement each other beautifully. The sharp, juicy tang of the...
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Chocolate and beetroot brownies
The international success of carrot cake has surely paved the way for experimentation with root vegetables in other cake recipes.
Prep 25mins Cook 25mins
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Corner shop spanakopitta
This spinach pie is a pretty loose take on the classic Greek spanakopitta. We can’t say frozen spinach is an ingredient we use often but...
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Coronation chicken with blueberries and almonds
This is my take on a classic Coronation chicken with blueberries for a burst of sweetness and the added crunch of celery and almonds. It's...
Prep 10mins Cook 20mins
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Courgette and rice filo pie
This is based on an intriguing, delicious Greek dish that Hugh found in a battered old copy of Mediterranean Vegetable Cookery by Rena...
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Dressed up onions
Soft, sweet and unctuous, these gorgeous sweet-sour onions are more forgiving than traditional ‘naked’ pickled onions. Spiced up with the...
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Flapjacks
Soft and chewy or crisp and crunchy, as you prefer, flapjacks are one of the all-time greats lunchtime or teatime, a good flapjack is...
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Focaccia
Focaccia is excellent sharing bread for serving with supper, and is really easy to make. You can certainly miss out the rosemary, and you...
Prep 15mins Cook 20mins
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Lentils with onion and watercress
This is a soft, soothing little dish of cooked lentils, perked up with peppery watercress and sweetened with fried onions. It's easy-to-eat...
Prep 15mins Cook 30mins
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Marinated courgette, shaved fennel and gooseberry salad
A perfect summer salad. If gooseberries are out of season, nice tart red or blackcurrants make for a great substitute.
Prep 40mins
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Pork pie
Sadly, petrol stations and corner shops haven’t done this humble pie’s reputation any good at all. Real pork pies are wonderful things and...
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Potato salad with dill and pickled red onion
This quick pickling treatment for onion comes from chef, Tim Maddams. He does it with rosemary, but the light sugar-salt-vinegar cure...
Prep 20mins Cook 20mins
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Rachel De Thample's Rhubarb Ginger Beer
The perfect refreshment on a sunny spring day when fresh rhubarb in season from our preserves and fermentation tutor. Making your own...
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Radishes with butter and salt
This is a simple, time-honoured way of serving radishes, and it is hard to beat. Hugh's one caveat, as with all radish recipes, is that...
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Raspberry + strawberry Eton mess
This delicious pudding is now a British classic. It's really just a fool sweetened with broken meringue instead of sugar - but that extra...
Prep 10mins Cook 2hrs
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Rhubarb and ginger fizz
Another yummy cocktail from our River Cottage Kitchens. Why not pop in and try one.
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River Cottage shortbread
This is quite different from a traditional thick Scottish shortbread. Rather than rubbing butter into flour then adding sugar in the usual...
Prep 15mins Cook 10mins
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Roast asparagus and little gems with lentils & boiled eggs
I like the way that roasting vegetables intensifies their flavours and caramelises the cut edges. It’s an easy win with roots and...
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Rocket, fennel and puy lentil salad
Rocket has become such a ubiquitous leaf, so often thrown into generic mixes of salad leaves, that it’s easy to forget how well it shines...
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Smoked new potato salad
Steve likes to use new potatoes for this salad. As with anything you smoke, the surface must be dry before you put them in the smoker, or...
Cook 15mins
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Spinach and onion puff tart
This is lovely on its own as a light meal, but it's also good alongside pulses, such as simply cooked red lentils or even baked...
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Split pea hummus with leftover veg
Traditional hummus is made with chickpeas, but here at River Cottage we love making dippable purées with fresh vegetables too - even better...
Prep 10mins Cook 30mins
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Summer salad of roast carrots, beets and redcurrants
A jewel coloured summer salad, featuring all the kitchen garden favourites by River Cottage Executive Chef, Gelf Alderson
Cook 20mins
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Tom's Cheese Straws
If you have a spare block of rough puff pastry and need an idea of what to do with it, cheese straws are great crowd pleasing savoury...
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Very lemony hummus
You might like to try this hummus in a sandwich with sliced tomatoes and a smear of harissa paste, or with grated carrot and a few torn...
Prep 12hrs Cook 3hrs
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Yellow split pea
A filling and tasty hummus recipe taught on one of our One Day Cookery Courses.
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Asian-inspired coleslaw
This is based on a recipe from Taste: A New Way to Cook, by the marvellous Sybil Kapoor. It's wonderfully aromatic, quite unlike any other...
Prep 10mins
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