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Alfresco recipes
Fire up the barbecue, dust off your picnic blanket and pop a bottle of rosé in the fridge – long, lazy days are here, and there’s no better way to celebrate the season than with a spot of feasting outdoors. Whether you’re looking to upgrade your picnics beyond picky bits or searching for no-fuss salads for laid-back garden dinner parties, our alfresco recipes are a taste of sunshine.
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Hero sharing sandwich
Prawn cocktail tostada cups
Carrot cake with honey frosting
Sticky chocolate fig cake
Peach & ginger granola bars
Spiced apple & pecan cake
Toasted feta & pecan grain salad with cherries, green beans and herbs
Charred watermelon, burrata & Parma ham salad
The best pasties
Fatteh-style chicken salad
Kim-cheese crunch burgers
Green olive & lemon salsa
Turkish-style watermelon salad
Charred corn with chilli, lime and mint butter
Fennel and ricotta tarte tatin
Confit lemon, bean & green veg salad with goat’s cheese
New potato & quail egg salad with pickled radishes
Chargrilled cucumbers with tomato & anchovy sauce
The best sausage rolls
White bean salad with tomato vierge
Courgette, fennel & feta filo pie
Strawberry mess ice cream slabs
Cinnamon bun iced chai float
Fruit skewers with Mars Bar sauce
Mediterranean peaches ’n’ cream
Barbecued pineapple with coconut
Barbecued whole trout
Lamb skewers
Charred courgettes & manouri
The perfect steak
Soy & gochujang marinade
Preserved lemon & zhoug marinade
Baby gem wedge salad with sesame dressing, crispy onions & garlic
Prawn, avocado & grapefruit with quinoa
Spiced black bean & charred corn chilli
Lemony Lebanese-spiced tiger prawns
Jalapeño honey pulled pork with lime slaw
Texan-style steak & corn salad
Barbecued wagyu sirloin with nahm jim jaew
Sweetcorn and mixed tomato som tam
Coal-roasted aubergine with 'waterfall' herb salad
Strawberry sherbert cocktails
Strawberry almond croissants
Yogurt set creams with Muscat-soaked strawberries
Crispy bread & courgette salad with walnut and basil pesto
Padrón pepper & halloumi skewers with sweet & smokey honey drizzle
Salsa verde
Swiss chard, leek & vintage Cheddar spanakopita-style pie
Three-cheese scones
Cowboy butter
Carrot and peanut butter salad
Herby anchovy marinade
Smoked potatoes with Thai green sauce
Chipotle chimichurri