A recipe for wild-spiced Emmer pilaf with chanterelles, courgettes and rose petals. Created by Leanne Townsend, a wild food specialist, researcher and food writer. She's added a foraged twist to this classic Middle Eastern dish.
Lemon and poppy seed is a classic flavour combination, usually in a cake, but Danka Jandric has cleverly made it into a granola recipe, using loads of our favourite products.
Our award-winning Fava Bean Umami Paste is similar to Japanese miso but made with British-grown fava beans. It's packed with deep rich umami flavour with subtle sherry notes and, like miso, it's perfect for marinades. Peter Grant has created a rich and flavoursome marinade for Lions Mane Mushrooms steaks.
This delicious recipe is from Salma Hage's superb new book The Levantine Vegetarian. We love to take inspiration from the big flavours of Middle-Eastern pulse and wholegrain dishes.
Inspired by traditional Peruvian quinoa soups, this soup uses a version of Aji Amarillo paste made using ingredients easily found in the UK rather than the traditional yellow Amarillo chillies. The flavour of this soup is distinctively fruity, savoury and a little spicy.
Amy Oboussier uses several of our ingredients to give this much loved dish a Hodmedod twist. Creamy nutty carlin peas are an excellent British-grown substitute for the usual black or pinto beans in refried beans.
This easy dal recipe is made with our flamingo peas. Split Flamingo peas are part of our range of products at Holland & Barrett. Their bright colour comes from cotyledon.
Eden Owen-Jones' light, silky and creamy whipped tofu dip is topped with split fava beans crisped in the oven to add a lovely crunch. Serve with deliciously bitter red endive leaves or spoon it over grilled radicchio.
You can make 'tofu' with any pulse, not just the traditional soybeans. Eden's recipe for homemade flamingo pea tofu is a perfect balance of sweet, smoke and umami flavours, paired with earthy celeriac and cavolo nero.
Here we have another recipe for James Taylor's school meals. James works in two London primary schools, improving their school meals to provide nutritious, delicious and environmentally sustainable meals for their children. We started working with James in 2023 to help him get pulses on the menu in his school. James describes the challenges of introducing young people to pulses when they are unfamiliar with them in their diets. However, James has shared with us a few of his recipes for success.
Farinata is a simple but delicious street food from north-western Italy. Made by soaking chickpea flour and then baking or frying on high heat to make a unleavened savoury 'pancake'. The charming (but presumably apocryphal) story of its origin was that a group of Roman soldiers cooked farinata a shield.
