Vegetables, fruit and pulses don't always get top billing — but these vegetable, fruit and pulses recipes carry plenty of their own flavour, colour and comfort. This is where you'll find them: stuffed peppers and roasted tomato tarts, bean salads and chickpea bowls, a cauliflower dressed up a few different ways, and the odd tagine bringing it all together.

Some of these lean naturally vegetarian, a few could go vegan with barely a tweak — cooked at Casa Adora and on the road, using whatever the market or the garden happens to offer that week. Whether it's a stuffed pepper for one or a big pot of tagine to share, there's something here worth putting on the table.

Proper produce.

Vegetable, Fruit & Pulses Recipes

1. Master the Art of Cooking Fresh Okra Without the Slime
2. Baked Spicy Cauliflower with Carrot & Potato Patties
3. Cauliflower: Pimping It Up
4. Stuffed Peppers: 3 Ways
5. Debbie's Spicy Red Pepper Stew
6. Roasted Cherry Tomato Tart with Balsamic Onions & Wild Asparagus
7. Baked Stuffed Butternut Squash
8. A Chickpea Salad in the Sun
9. Beans: They Can Kill You, You Know. Well, Nearly Anyway.
10. Jerky Cauliflower Steak
11. Mediterranean Bean Salad
12. One-Pan Chickpea Rice Bowl
13. Stuffed Pimiento Palermo Rojo — One Large Pepper for One Hungry Person
14. Vegetable Tagine: 9-a-Day
15. Spiced Fried Onion Rice with Vegetables
16. Creative Ways to Use Up Leftover Vegetables
17. Tomatoey Tart With Caramelised Onions
18. Silky & Garlicky Cauliflower Purée
19. Mr Bean: Andalucían Style — Homemade Baked Beans
20. Beans on Toast, But Make It Brunch
21. Wild Asparagus with Parmesan Shavings and Balsamic Vinegar
22. Vegetable Bake with Parmesan, Pine Nut and Herb Crust
23. Broad Bean, Courgette and Lentil Salad with Marinated Feta
24. Mozzarella Broad Bean Salad
25. Griddled Aubergine with Feta, Herbs and Lemon Garlic Drizzle
26. Simple Supper, No Need for Salt
27. Layered Vegetable Cake ooops, Pie
28. Sometimes Only a Pie Will Do
29. Spicy Falafels, Goat's Cheese & Salad Pittas
30. Escalivada Recipe – Catalan Roasted Vegetables
31. Pepino Gurkensalat – A Casa Adora Story
32. Blitzed Peas with Flavoured Vinegar
33. Puff Pastry Pepper Tart with Roasted Peppers and Feta
34. Mediterranean Lentils & Quinoa Skillet with Caramelised Onions
35. The Casa Adora Stuffed Avocado — A Simple, Elegant Christmas Day Starter
36. Creamy Parsnip and Parmesan Gratin Recipe
37. Simple Red Lentil and White Bean Burger Recipe for One
38. Stuffed Tomato and Butternut Squash Rings with Egg and Mozzarella
39. Ottolenghi Aubergine Curry — My Casa Adora Version
40. Nearly Deroni Lutenitsa — Homemade Bulgarian Pepper & Tomato Relish
41. Ancient Greek Recipes — Skordalia-Style Barley Purée
42. Clapshot Recipe — Orcadian Neeps and Tatties
43. Vegetable Biryani with Homemade Biryani Masala

And for more vegetable, fruit and pulses inspiration, a few produce box reviews below:

Produce Box Reviews

Curious whether a produce subscription box is worth it for stocking up on ingredients for these vegetable, fruit and pulses recipes? I've tried a few, so you don't have to guess. Honest thoughts on what turned up, what it cost, and whether it's worth a spot in your kitchen.

Whatever's ripe, whatever's in the basket — there's a vegetable, fruit and pulses recipe here to make the most of it.

• Remolonas Surprise Box Review
• La Caja Saludable Review: Authentic Spanish Produce Box Delivery (Mainland Spain)
• La Caja Saludable Review: Spanish Produce Box

Know Your Ingredients

Sometimes it helps to understand an ingredient before you cook with it — where it comes from, how to handle it, what makes it tick.

• Get to Know Your Onions
• Purple is the New Orange – Purple Carrots
• Sun-Dried Tomatoes & Mediterranean Ingredients: A Flexible Chef Market Find

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