What should you be cooking in May?

May ingredients for seasonal cooking

Here is what you should be buying and cooking with this month:

Fuit and Vegetables: Asparagus, Beetroot, Cabbage (Pointed), Cauliflower, Chicory, Chilli peppers, Elderflowers, Fennel (home-grown), Gooseberries, Leeks, Lettuce, Mushrooms, Onions, Oranges (navel), Potatoes (Desiree, King Edward, Salad, Pentland Javelin, Jersey Royal), Rhubarb, Rocket, Sorrel, Spinach (home grown), Spring greens, Spring onions, Squash, Turnips (winter), Watercress.

Meat and Game: Chicken, Lamb (Spring, British), Pork, Quail

Fish and Shellfish: Haddock, Herring, Mussels (farmed), Salmon (Atlantic farmed), Seabass (farmed), Trout (rainbow)

Fish recommendations are a guide only; please check current information with the Marine Conservation Society, Good Fish Guide

Click on the ingredient name for more information and see below for Delia’s recipes using ingredients available this month

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Spring Sauce for Lamb

I always part company with mint sauce if it's made with malt vinegar which completely overpowers the flavou...

I always part company with mint sauce if it's made with malt vinegar which completely overpowers the flavour of the lamb. But the following sauce - which my g...

A picture of Delia's Strawberry and Balsamic Ice Cream with Sweet Strawberry and Mint Salsa recipe

Strawberry Ice Cream with Sweet Salsa

The addition of balsamic vinegar to dairy products such as cream and ice cream tempers the richness and add...

The addition of balsamic vinegar to dairy products such as cream and ice cream tempers the richness and adds a subtle flavour. Couple this with its affinity with st...

Vegetarian

Strawberry and Vanilla Pavlova

This is a delicious pudding which is very difficult to make if you don't have the right recipe but dead eas...

This is a delicious pudding which is very difficult to make if you don't have the right recipe but dead easy if you do! Served with sharp fruits to counterac...

1 hour

to cook

Teriyaki Grilled Marinated Salmon

This has a slightly higher fat content than my other Waist Watcher recipes because I'm using salmon, which ...

This has a slightly higher fat content than my other Waist Watcher recipes because I'm using salmon, which works best, but it can be made with other fish, such as cod ...

Very Garlicky Chilli Pasta

This is really meant for people who do hot, as in spicy. If you cut the heat down, it's not quite ...

This is really meant for people who do hot, as in spicy. If you cut the heat down, it's not quite the same. Pecorino can be finely grated in a mini-chop...

Vegetarian

Watercress and Potato Soup

Dorothy Hartley’s 'Food in England' (one of my cookery bibles). Talking of watercress she says ‘they rec...

Dorothy Hartley’s 'Food in England' (one of my cookery bibles). Talking of watercress she says ‘they reckon it is a good thing to eat in the spring. They prophesy i...