Summer snack recipes

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Filo pastry recipes

Patlıcanlı rulo börek (Turkish aubergine and pepper filo rolls)

Özlem Warren’s aubergine börek, with their crisp and golden filo pastry, bring a taste of traditional Turkish cuisine to your summer table.

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Scone recipes

Nicola Lamb’s flaky cheese and pickle scones

Cheese scones get the flaky treatment. Rye flour and gherkins in the layers gives these scones a deli-sandwich energy, welcome at any picnic.

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Snacks and nibbles

Crudités with dill mayonnaise

This gorgeous green mayo gets its colour from a simple dill-infused oil. Serve it with a crudités platter for an easy summer starter.

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Raspberry recipes

Raspberry and sesame cheesecake danishes

These easy pastries are like a cheesecake in danish form, with raspberries, a cream cheese base and sweet-salty sesame caramel.

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Crab recipes

Emily Scott’s Cornish crab, toast and mayo

Cornwall-based chef Emily Scott’s recipe for crab on toast is delightfully simple but special, enriched with just a little lemon and garlic.

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Snacks and nibbles

Chilli-pickled asparagus gildas

Said to be the first ever pintxo (the famous bar snacks of the Basque country in northern Spain), our gildas get a seasonal British twist by swapping out the peppers for spicy pickled pieces of asparagus. Delightful!

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Mezze recipes

Spanakopita fritters

Georgina Hayden's snackable take on the Greek favourite spanakopita transforms the classic spinach and feta pie into light, golden fritters.

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Filo pastry recipes

Filo-wrapped feta with spiced honey

Georgina Hayden's easy filo-wrapped feta is a guaranteed crowdpleaser. It's served drizzled with spiced honey and sprinkled with thyme.

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New potato recipes

Patates antinaxtes (pan-fried new potatoes with red wine and coriander)

Georgina Hayden shares her recipe for patates antinaxtes, cracked new potatoes pan-fried with red wine and coriander.

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Harissa recipes

Harissa, feta and filo cigars

Tangy feta meets fiery harissa and sweet honey, in this filo cigars recipe. The perfect pre-dinner bite or fancy snack – no humidor required.

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Mezze recipes

Bulgar köftesi

Food writer Yasemen Kaner-White shares her family recipe for koftesi, Turkish meatballs made with beef and bulgar wheat.

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Healthy fish recipes

Trout rillettes with dill and green grapes

We love this rustic trout pâté for two reasons. It looks beautiful thanks to discs of vinegar-dressed grapes which also add zing and crunch.

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Aubergine recipes

Aubergine moussaka rolls

These moussaka rolls transform the big layered oven-baked dish into a slightly lighter snackable affair. It just needs a quick blast under the grill before serving.

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Sandwich recipes

Pan bagnat

Pan bagnat – essentially a salad niçoise in a crusty roll – is a taste of southern France in a sandwich. It’s the perfect thing to take on a picnic as it’s best made in advance and wrapped up, to really let the dressing soak into the bread.

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Summer salads and sides

Whipped feta

Creamy, salty feta is whizzed in a food processor with greek yogurt to make the ultimate dip. You can use it as the base of a salad...

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Italian starter recipes

Fritto misto

One of the nicest things you can eat by the coast in Italy, fritto misto is incredibly simple – but of course, the quality of the ingredients is paramount (so buy fresh rather than frozen if possible).

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