A wide range of quick and easy recipes for your favourite fresh vegetables
Go directly to recipes While species of vegetables that we also call beans, such as fava beans (also known as broad beans) and garbanzo beans (another name for chickpeas) originated around the Mediterranean, most of the beans we now know originated, like so many popular vegetables, in South and Central …
Go directly to recipes There are times when we feel like a vegetable based main meal, or want to impress a guest. Cooking stuffed vegetables is a great way to create a delicious and healthy meal that is both appealing and satisfying. Many different vegetables can be stuffed and with …
Go directly to recipes While tomatoes are usually consumed as vegetables, strictly speaking the tomato is a berry or fruit. The tomato originated in western South America, Mexico and Central America. Its domestication and cultivation may have originated with the indigenous peoples of Mexico and it was used by the …
Go directly to recipes A member of the cabbage family, broccoli has been cultivated in Italy since the early days of the Roman Empire, and was taken to the world by Italian emigrants who made it a favourite vegetable in Britain, Australia and North America. It is a particularly rich …
Go directly to recipes Eggplants originated in China and India and have been cultivated there for thousands of years. The Spanish Moors introduced the eggplant into Southern and Eastern Europe where it became a popular addition to the diet. Named for its shape rather than for any other relationship, it …
Go directly to recipes A miniature version of their larger cousins, Brussels sprouts are a member of the cabbage family. Although native to the Mediterranean region with other cabbage species, Brussels sprouts first appeared in northern Europe during the 5th century, later being cultivated in the 13th century near Brussels, …
Go directly to recipes Closely related to onion and garlic, the leek is an ancient crop native to the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Archaeological evidence indicates that, by the second millennium BC, leek was a part of the diet in both Egypt and Mesopotamia. Leeks were eaten in …
Go directly to recipes The sweet potato is a root crop which originated in the tropical regions of Central and South America. From there it has spread to Europe, Asia and Africa. However, while Christopher Columbus and his European compatriots get most of the credit for introducing New World vegetables …
