Veg, Fruit & Pulses Hub

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.

Jump to: Stuffed Vegetables & Peppers · Cauliflower, Aubergine & Roasted Vegetables · Tarts, Pies & Bakes · Beans, Lentils & Chickpeas · Rice, Curries & One-Pot Suppers · Tofu & Plant-Based Mains · Salads, Sides & Purées · Ferments, Pickles & Relishes

Stuffed Vegetables & Peppers

Peppers, squash, tomatoes and avocado, stuffed and baked, plus a couple of pepper-led stews.

• Stuffed Peppers: 3 Ways
• Stuffed Pimiento Palermo Rojo — One Large Pepper for One Hungry Person
• Baked Stuffed Butternut Squash
• Stuffed Tomato and Butternut Squash Rings with Egg and Mozzarella
• The Casa Adora Stuffed Avocado — A Simple, Elegant Christmas Day Starter
• Debbie's Spicy Red Pepper Stew
• Piperade Andalusia

Cauliflower, Aubergine & Roasted Vegetables

Vegetables cooked with a bit of attention: roasted, griddled, baked or dressed up, from cauliflower and aubergine to asparagus, parsnips and carrots.

• Master the Art of Cooking Fresh Okra Without the Slime
• Baked Spicy Cauliflower with Carrot & Potato Patties
• Cauliflower: Pimping It Up
• Jerky Cauliflower Steak
• Griddled Aubergine with Feta, Herbs and Lemon Garlic Drizzle
• Escalivada Recipe – Catalan Roasted Vegetables
• Vegetable Bake with Parmesan, Pine Nut and Herb Crust
• Wild Asparagus with Parmesan Shavings and Balsamic Vinegar
• Simple Supper, No Need for Salt
• Creamy Parsnip and Parmesan Gratin Recipe
• Harissa Carrots – Inspired by Nigel Slater
• Creative Ways to Use Up Leftover Vegetables

Tarts, Pies & Bakes

Pastry and the oven, with tomatoes, peppers, onions and asparagus doing the filling.

• Roasted Cherry Tomato Tart with Balsamic Onions & Wild Asparagus
• Tomatoey Tart With Caramelised Onions
• Layered Vegetable Cake ooops, Pie
• Sometimes Only a Pie Will Do
• Puff Pastry Pepper Tart with Roasted Peppers and Feta

Beans, Lentils & Chickpeas

The pulses: beans on toast and baked beans, burgers and falafel, gigantes, houmous and pâté.

• Beans: They Can Kill You, You Know. Well, Nearly Anyway.
• Mr Bean: Andalucían Style — Homemade Baked Beans
• Beans on Toast, But Make It Brunch
• Simple Red Lentil and White Bean Burger Recipe for One
• Beetroot & Black Bean Burger — Casa Adora
• Spicy Falafels, Goat's Cheese & Salad Pittas
• A Black Bean Breakfast — Fried Egg, Two Ways, Casa Adora
• Quick Gigantes Plaki, Greek Giant Beans in Tomato (Saucepan Version)
• Chickpea Pâté for One (Two Ramekins)
• Homemade Hummus Recipe (Houmous for One)
• Dry Brined Roast Chicken: A Bog Standard Bird, Done Properly

Rice, Curries & One-Pot Suppers

Biryani, dhal, tagine and one-pan suppers, several of them cooked in the campervan.

• Vegetable Biryani with Homemade Biryani Masala
• Andy's Red Lentil Dhal — A Rochdale Kitchen Recipe
• Cauliflower Curry with Butter Beans
• Vegetable Tagine: 9-a-Day
• Spiced Fried Onion Rice with Vegetables
• One-Pan Chickpea Rice Bowl
• Campervan Mushroom and Chickpea Stew
• One-Pan Harissa Butternut Squash & Giant Couscous
• Mediterranean Lentils & Quinoa Skillet with Caramelised Onions
• Ottolenghi Aubergine Curry — My Casa Adora Version

Tofu & Plant-Based Mains

Tofu in black bean sauce, mapo, goulash, romesco and scrambled.

• Nearly Mapo Tofu — A Casa Adora Version Without Doubanjiang
• Tofu Scramble, Casa Adora — A High Protein Breakfast Without the Eggs
• Crispy Tofu Recipe — Pan-Fried with Casa Adora Romesco
• Black Bean Tofu Recipe — Casa Adora, Nearly Lee Kum Kee Style
• Vegan Goulash with Tofu — A Hungarian-Style Recipe

Salads, Sides & Purées

Bean and pulse salads, Greek and Japanese cucumber and tomato salads, and the purées, mashes and sauces that sit alongside a main.

• A Chickpea Salad in the Sun
• Mediterranean Bean Salad
• Four Bean Salad with Mussels and Bulgur Wheat
• Broad Bean, Courgette and Lentil Salad with Marinated Feta
• Mozzarella Broad Bean Salad
• Horiatiki Salad: Authentic Greek Salad Recipe for One
• Sunomono — A Japanese Cucumber Salad, Casa Adora
• Pepino Gurkensalat – A Casa Adora Story
• Blitzed Peas with Flavoured Vinegar
• Silky & Garlicky Cauliflower Purée
• Clapshot Recipe — Orcadian Neeps and Tatties
• Ancient Greek Recipes — Skordalia-Style Barley Purée
• Black Bean Salsa — Mango, Red Onion and Lime

Ferments, Pickles & Relishes

Kraut, relish and quick pickles for the jar.

• Lacto-Fermented Courgette Kraut — A Casa Adora Small Batch
• Nearly Deroni Lutenitsa — Homemade Bulgarian Pepper & Tomato Relish
• Quick Pickled Pepinos with Apple Cider Vinegar

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

Looking for veggie and vegan recipes specifically?
The Veggie & Vegan Recipes hub brings together the plant-based cooking from Casa Adora in one place — labelled by vegetarian and vegan, from fermented breakfast jars to slow oven braises.

Looking for chickpea recipes?

The Chickpea Recipes hub gathers every chickpea dish from Casa Adora and the road – houmous and pâté, stews and salads, bread, socca and more.

Looking for mushroom recipes?

The Mushroom Recipes hub gathers the wild and everyday mushroom cooking from Casa Adora – porcini and trompette de la mort, soups and pâtés, pasta for one, and one honest account of trying to grow shiitake in Andalucía.

Browse all recipe collections at The Flexible Chef's Complete Hub Guide.

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