21 Recipes To Create Something Amazing With Spring Produce

Lucky enough to have just returned from a jaunt to your local farmers' market or other favorite local food market? I hope your baskets and totes are brimming with fresh spring favorites like these.  And, if you are looking for quick, easy ways to highlight their deliciousness, I have gathered a few . . . or maybe a little more than a a few . . . ways to do just that.

Simple But Delicious Ways To Prepare Your Spring Produce

Because fresh produce tastes perfectly wonderful all on its own (in fact, sometimes who can wait to even get it home before sampling it), I typically choose simple ways to prepare it.  That way, it keeps that natural, fresh flavor up front. Thus, most of these links all are easy and quick and pretty much fuss-free:



1/2. If you have fresh spring onions, garlic scapes and herbs in your basket, you may want to try these main dishes to combine them:

• rice noodles with scallions and herbs
• salmon burger on lettuce with green goddess dressing

3/4. If you have chosen some young, beautiful asparagus stalks, you must try these ways to use it up:

• raw asparagus Caesar salad (I would use organic Greek yogurt instead of mayo.)
• asparagus, curry soup

5/6/7.  Fresh strawberries are a favorite of most. If you have brought some home with a stalk or two of rhubarb, try these refreshing ways to combine the flavors:

• hibiscus strawberry rhubarb tea
• strawberry ice
• strawberry rhubarb granita

8.  If you were lucky enough to nail down some baby artichokes, you can't get any more simple than this: grilled baby artichokes.


9/10.  Those smaller zucchinii are always more tender and flavorful. You must try this with your next windfall:

• raw carrot and zucchini ribbons with a cilantro, pepita pesto
• zucchini agrodoice (a salad of types)

11/12/13.  If you spotted fresh peas, mint and a few lovely radishes, well . . . who doesn't love toast?  And, those fritters are pretty adorable, too:

• toast with lemon pea mash or toast with radishes and greens
• pea, mint, feta quinoa fritters

14/15.  Fresh apricot season seems to be a short one where I live, so I grab them when I can. How about these two ways to highlight them:

• fruited tabbouleh
• melted apricots and raspberries 

16/17. Watercress is at the very tipy-top of the nutrient dense vegetables so throw some in you bag and make these recipes:

• watercress dip
• Vidalia onion, avocado and watercress salad

18/19.  Lots of greens peeking out of your basket? Those nutrient-dense vegetables would do beautifully with these:

• spinach and green pea empanadas
• dairy-free spring greens soup

20/21.  If blueberries are included in your bundle from the market, here are two great ways to use them to start your day:

• blueberry, mint smoothie
• blueberry, banana pie overnight oats

Do you have a favorite spring produce that you wait for each season? How about a simple way to prepare it?

Need More?

• The farmers' markets are a great way to choose local produce and support your area farmers. Here are tips to ask the right questions when you get there.

• Loads of other healthy ways to prepare vegetables: my healthy vegetables Pinterest board. 

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