This recipe from Josiah Meldrum combines the sweet, fresh flavours of roasted peppers and tomatoes to create a vibrant Romesco sauce, to accompany comforting roasted squash and deliciously chewy pearled naked barley.
Parched peas were a very common street food in the UK for a couple of hundred years; these days, they're much harder to find. They are a traditional treat made with carlin peas, with lashings of vinegar and salt, often eaten on Bonfire Night.
This soup is so easy to make, and once blended, tastes really creamy as if you’ve added a ton of dairy cream! That’s because the hero of this soup are the hemp seeds. Hemp seeds go beautifully creamy once cooked like this and then blended.
Introduced by the Spanish during occupation and colonisation, fava beans have been used in Mexico for hundreds of years. There are many variations of this simple soup, made and eaten primarily during Lent. Most use chicken stock, but Eden packs in plenty of rich and savoury notes into the dish while keeping it vegetarian.
Full of colour and flavour, this dish of wholegrain wheat, nuts and veggies is a wholefood feast. Served with a smoky romesco sauce made with Brazil nuts and Halen Môn's Oak Smoked Water.
Sarah and Aitana use our pearled naked barley rather than traditional arborio rice for this orzotto alternative to more familiar risotto. Barley’s nutty flavour complements the earthy mushrooms well. This recipe can be varied with other whole grains like naked oats or black barley.
Dried peas aren't just about hearty, hefty, traditional dishes, as Jenny Chandler shows in this fresh, light and vibrant dish. You can use any seasonal greens here - sprout tops are particularly good, but savoy cabbage, spring greens or kale would work well too. Be generous with the garlic, ginger and chilli, this recipe is designed to zing.
In this recipe, Jenny Chandler has created a versatile pea and beetroot puree using our flamingo peas, which could accompany a number of dishes, adding vibrant colour and earthy flavours.
Queen of pulses Jenny Chandler combines quinoa with carlin peas as a satisfying base for any roast vegetables. The fabulously nutty texture and flavour of the carlin peas works especially well, but you could swap them out for other pulses.
Mejadra - or Mujaddara - is a simple but perfect store cupboard combination of lentils, rice or another grain, spices and crispy onions. You can find subtle variations across the Middle East but each is equally comforting and delicious. This version uses Hodmedod's Pilau Mix #2 in which the nutty emmer grains make a delicious British-grown substitute for the more usual rice, alongside our earthy olive green lentils.
These have the most heavenly carrot cake-like flavour and texture, making them wildly indulgent as well as deliciously nourishing. The best part is that you don’t need to cook them. Their sweetness comes from dates, which are full of fibre, and honey, which you can omit to further reduce sugars, if needed.
Forager Leanne Townsend uses Bold Bean Co's jarred carlin peas in their stock to create this comforting autumn ragout, topped with chanterelles - or oyster mushrooms - to complement the earthy, nutty flavours of carlin peas.
