These healthy spring recipes are all delicious dishes that showcase the season's fruit and vegetables.
Spring is a riot of soft greens, fresh asparagus, crunchy radishes, zesty citrus, new potatoes, and green beans. The fruit and vegetables in season in spring are a welcome jolt of new flavor after the winter.
We've got several different types of spring recipes ideas - including some flavorful salads, side dishes, breakfast recipes, and main courses.
Asparagus Puff Pastry Tart
This asparagus tart made from puff pastry and ricotta is a beautiful, tasty recipe.
It highlights the asparagus's grassy flavor and the buttery puff pastry, making this a fabulous spring recipe.
Pan-Seared Scallops with Edamame & Peas
This scallops with peas and edamame recipe is ready in about 25 minutes and tastes fresh and delicious!
Spring Farro Salad
This delightful spring farro salad has roasted asparagus, broccolini, and radishes. It's bursting with flavor.
It's topped with dill, chives, and a mustardy dressing for a bright spring meal!
Watermelon Radish Toast
One of the easiest and most delicious ways to enjoy watermelon radishes is on a slice of toast with a thick layer of goat cheese. This recipe is almost not a recipe; it's just a few ingredients and truly simple.
Spring Minestrone Soup Recipe
This hearty spring minestrone soup recipe is a delicious celebration of spring vegetables. Asparagus, spinach, and leeks shine in this soup, which can easily be made vegan by removing the cheese garnish.
Shaved Fennel and Asparagus Quinoa Salad
This shaved fennel and asparagus salad recipe combines quinoa, Manchego cheese, red onion, and a zesty lemon dressing. It’s super refreshing and makes a great light lunch or side salad.
Sautéed Garlic Scapes
These delicious garlic scapes are sautéed with olive oil, soy sauce, and vinegar. It's an easy and quick side dish that highlights the flavors of the scapes.
Rainbow Carrot Salad with Quinoa
This gorgeous rainbow carrot salad with quinoa and feta is a warm side dish. Great for a great vegetarian main course or delicious side.
Rhubarb Blueberry Galette
This delightful rhubarb and blueberry galette is a tart and tangy dessert with just enough sweetness!
Turkish Potato Salad (Patates Salatasi)
This tasty Turkish potato salad is a hearty and filling side dish that's so flavorful.
The combination of bell peppers, green onions, fresh herbs, and kicky spices makes this dish special.
Crispy Roasted Sunchokes
Roasting sunchokes to crispy perfection is easy and requires very little hands-on time! Sunchokes have a lovely, delicate, sweet flavor for a root vegetable and taste great when roasted.
Ramp Omelet
If you are lucky enough to get your hands on some ramps, you've got to try this ramp omelet. It serves two and is full of ramp deliciousness.
Rhubarb Shrub
You've got to try making this rhubarb shrub. Whether you use it in a cocktail or mocktail, it's a wonderful, fruity syrup that can be used in many drinks.
Daikon Radish Cucumber Salad
This daikon radish salad with cucumbers is a bright and flavorful side dish. It has a zesty sesame and rice wine vinegar dressing.
Chickpea Salad with Cucumber
Cucumber chickpea salad is a great light lunch for two or a side dish for four. It's perfect for a day when you don't want to turn on the stove and need something quick!
French Potato Salad
This French potato salad with green beans is a hearty side dish or a wonderful lunch.
It's flavorful, has velvety potatoes, a fresh punch from the green beans, and added substance from the hard-boiled eggs.
Brown Butter Radishes with Lemon
This brown butter radish salad with lemon is both beautiful and delicious.
After they’ve been sautéed, the radishes have a subtle flavor, but adding their greens and the lemon juice and zest adds a layer of brightness to the dish.
Radish and Cucumber Salad
This easy radish cucumber salad recipe with dill and feta is a crunchy and fresh side dish. It's perfect for serving with BBQ or roast chicken.
Heart of Palm Salad
This heart of palm salad with arugula, chicken, and hard-boiled eggs is an easy, flavorful main course for two people. It can easily be scaled up.
It's a refreshing and healthy main course salad recipe that we think you'll love.
Kumquat Radish Salad with Dukkah
This delightful kumquat salad with watermelon radishes, radicchio, and dukkah seasoning is a bright pop of flavor. It's bursting with seasonal produce and topped with a delicious, nutty blend.
Grilled Asparagus Recipe
This easy grilled asparagus recipe is ready in less than 15 minutes. It's a fabulous side dish to serve during spring.
The asparagus gets a lovely char that adds great flavor.
Green Goddess Cabbage Salad
This delicious green goddess cabbage salad features finely diced cabbage, green onions, cucumbers, chives, and a creamy dressing.
Shaved Asparagus Salad
This shaved asparagus salad with quinoa recipe is a delicious side dish! It packs well for a take-to-work lunch or makes a great side salad for dinner.
Sheet Pan Salmon Recipe
This sheet pan salmon with haricots verts, radishes, and a mustardy dressing is an easy weeknight meal.
Cooking everything on a sheet pan makes for easy clean-up and minimal prep work. While it takes some time to roast, this recipe calls for less than 10 minutes of hands-on time!
Roasted Radish Salad Recipe
This roasted radish salad with a yogurt dressing is a wonderful springtime recipe with exciting flavors!
Spring Charcuterie Board
This board is easy to put together, and it's a fun way to enjoy spring colors and flavors.
We used some of our favorite spring produce items in this recipe, including colorful cauliflower, watermelon radishes, and artichoke dip.
Spring Recipes
Try one of our favorite springs recipes - this delicious asparagus tart with ricotta.
Ingredients
- 1 sheet of puff pastry
- 1 bunch of asparagus
- 8 ounces ricotta cheese
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Remove the woody ends from the asparagus (either snap them or chop them off), toss the asparagus with half the olive oil and half the salt and pepper.
- Lay the pastry sheet flat on a rimmed baking sheet, lined with parchment paper. Cut a ½ inch border around the edges, and then prick the pastry with a fork several times.
- Spread the ricotta out across the pastry and then lay the asparagus spears across it.
- Bake the pastry for 20 to 22 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown.
- After the pastry cools for a few minutes, sprinkle the remaining olive oil, salt, and pepper across the top along with the lemon juice.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 180Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 18mgSodium: 390mgCarbohydrates: 7gFiber: 0gSugar: 0gProtein: 7g
I hope you enjoy these easy and delicious spring recipes!
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