Foraging

Dandelions

Food and Recipes

Dandelion guide: where to find, how to pick and recipe ideas

Dandelion cake

Dandelion flower and rum cake by Rachel Lambert

Serves 10–12

Foraged dandelions

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Dandelion petal syrup by Rachel Lambert

Makes 200ml/6.75 fl oz

Wild garlic pesto

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Wild garlic pesto

15 mins Makes 1 jar

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Seasonal recipes

Sea beet paneer

35 h Serves 2 to 3

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Dead nettle and wild garlic butter

Makes 10 × 25g portions

Stinging_nettle

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Nettle spanakopita

Serves 4

Cleavers

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Rhubarb and cleaver spring reviver

Makes 750ml

Chicken leg, blue cheese and nettle pie

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Chicken leg, blue cheese and nettle pie

2-3

Bottle of sloe gin

Seasonal recipes

The perfect sloe gin recipe

Makes 2 bottles

Wild Blackberry and Rosewater Cake @Kathy Bishop and Tom Crowford

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Wild Blackberry and Rosewater Cake

Serves 8

bilberry

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Bilberry and almond streusel cake

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Barbecued plaice with fennel seed, chilli, aubergine and tomatoes

Serves 4

Borage leaf, pea and garden mint soup ©Kathy Bishop and Tom Crowford

Seasonal recipes

Borage leaf, pea and garden mint soup

Wild garlic, nettle and dandelion tart ©Kathy Bishop and Tom Crowford

Seasonal recipes

Wild garlic, nettle and dandelion tart

Serves 8-10