Light Spring Meals to Freshen Up Your Plate

Spring is in the air – and in your veg box! 🌸

As the weather warms up and the days get longer, our tastebuds start craving meals that are lighter, brighter, and full of seasonal goodness. Think crunchy salads, zingy herbs, and colourful veggies that do double duty as both flavour and mood boosters.

Here’s a round-up of simple, delicious recipes that celebrate spring produce – all using ingredients you’ll find in your 5adaybox.

Aspargus and new potato frittata

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 12 mins

Serves 3

A simple, low-calorie spring main that uses the season’s finest ingredients and is ready in just 20 minutes

Source: BBC Good Food, find the recipe here

Easy warm lentil and beetroot salad

Total time: 1 hour

Serves 4

A quick and nutritious midweek meal recipe that’s full of flavour from earthy beetroot, tangy feta and refreshing mint and coriander.

Source: Deliclous, find the recipe here

Strawberry spinach salad

Prep time: 15 mins

Serves 4

The best part about this salad? All you really need to do is arrange and mix, there’s absolutely no cooking involved

Source: Delish, find the recipe here

Courgette lemon orzo

Prep time: 3 mins

Cook time: 12 mins

Serves 2

This easy 5 main ingredient Courgette and Lemon Orzo is a perfect week night meal. It really does take 15 minutes to make, by the time the orzo has cooked. Use up those seasonal courgettes, slice up some garlic, cook the orzo and add a few herbs, a squeeze of lemon and olive oil and voila.

Source: Lucy and lentils, find the recipe here

Spring Veggie Tacos with Avocado Cream

Total time: 1 hour

Serves 6

Traditionally when most of us think of tacos, we think of them being filled with pork, beef, chicken, or even fish. There’s nothing wrong with having those fillings, but we’re on a mission to get you to enjoy those veggies more often than not and to do so requires some really awesome plant-based ingredients

Source: Nutrition stripped, find the recipe here