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Monday 1st April 2019

Find out what is in season this month

What’s in season? April edition

April means Easter and gluttony of tasty, seasonal food. Think fresh flavours, lighter dishes and spring infused plates of deliciousness.

Vegetables: asparagus, broccoli, jersey royal new potatoes, lettuce & salad leaves, purple sprouting broccoli, radishes, rocket, samphire, spinach, spring onions, watercress, wild nettles

Herbs: basil, chives, dill, sorrel, watercress, wild garlic

Fruit: bananas (Windward) [i], kiwi fruit [i], rhubarb

Meat: lamb, wood pigeon

Fish: cockles, crab, langoustine, lobster, plaice, prawns, salmon, sea trout, shrimp, whitebait, oyster

BBC Food has a whole page of seasonal recipe suggestions here.

 [i] Indicates seasonally imported produce

Source: EatTheSeasons

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