Recipes

Ashburton Cookery School's Charred Mackerel Recipe

The Ashburton Cookery School is one of the UK's top cookery schools offering inspirational cookery courses taught by their team of expert chefs. With over 40 cookery courses to choose from, designed to suit beginners as well as advanced home cooks they teach you to cook with imagination, passion and enjoyment. If you want to take your cookery skills to the next level they have a cookery course for you.

Apple Pie Recipe

This traditional filled Apple Pie uses simple ingredients. Straightforward to make, it’s guaranteed to raise a smile or two! Serve with your choice of cream, custard or ice-cream. Serves 6-8.

Apple Pie Orchard Cocktail

Raise a glass to the not-so-humble apple with this delicious cocktail.

Easter Chocolate Cheesecakes

These little cheesecakes are perfect for an indulgent pudding - decorate the tops with mini-eggs, chocolate sprinkles or whatever tickles your fancy! Makes 8

Gruyère Gratin Dauphinois

Slightly lighter than the original recipe, this simple side dish is still hearty and delicious. Serves 4.

Pea, Leek & Thyme Tart Recipe

This fabulous (and faff-free) vegetarian recipe is a great way to eat your greens! Set in a buttery pastry case and enriched with cream and cheese, it’s a hearty meal in itself – just serve with some simply-dressed salad leaves. Serves 6.

Mothering Sunday Shortbread

Simple but delicious, these little shortbread biscuits are a sweet way to say ‘I love you’ on Mother’s Day. Makes 15-20 biscuits, depending on cutter size. *Please supervise small children at all times in the kitchen*

DIY Cookie Jar

If you can’t gift a box of home-made cookies, why not gift the next-best thing; the certainty of home-made cookies in the near future! This pretty-looking jar can be put together by children with just a little adult help, and comes with all the dry ingredients needed for a tasty tray of chocolate chip cookies (just add butter or margarine and an egg) plus hand-written baking instructions. Makes one jar.

Rosary Goats Cheese Galette

Award-winning Rosary Goats’ Cheese lends its superb flavour to this delicious vegetarian galette. You can make the pastry and griddled veg ahead of time if wished, then assemble the galette when you’re ready to cook – just remember to allow time to freeze the butter. Serves 4-6.

Thumbprint Cookies Recipe

With a little adult help, young children can have a go at making these easy cookies – whether they enjoy weighing ingredients, rolling dough, making thumbprints or adding the Nutella and decorating, there are plenty of ways for them to get stuck in! Makes about 25 cookies, but dough can be divided and frozen before cooking, if fewer cookies are needed.

Easy Tray-Bake Sponge Cake

With a bit of adult help, mini-bakers can cook up a sweet Mother’s Day Treat with this simple sponge-cake recipe. As well as the basic cake mix, we’ve suggested some flavour variations and a couple of icing ideas – feel free to tweak them as much as you like, and make a special, one-off cake for your special, one-off mum! Makes one large tray-bake, which you can cut into large or small squares.

Cottage Pie Recipe

Comfort food at its delicious, savoury best! Cottage Pie freezes well, so you could make two and pop one in the freezer for an easy meal at a later date.

Turkey Cacciatore Recipe

Made with tomatoes, mozzarella and a healthy amount of garlic, this tasty Italian-inspired bake is a nice way to use up leftover cooked turkey – and if you have any bread that’s a little past its best, or some odds and ends of cheddar or other hard cheese to use up, they can go in the topping, too. Serves 4.

Brussels Sprouts with Port & Pancetta

Briefly boiled then blanched for freshness, the Brussels sprouts in this quick and easy recipe are flavoured with the richness of pancetta and the warmth of port. Serves 6-8 as a side.

No Smoke without Fire; Sausage Raft

A selection of your favourite sausages skewered through the side, topped with beer fried onions & cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, French fries and grated pecorino cheese. Served with corn on the cob smothered in Greendale's garlic mayo and Cornish sea salt & 3 pepper

Ultimate Turkey Sandwich Recipe

Not just any old snack, these sandwiches might take a few minutes’ work to put together but they’re definitely worth the (minimal) effort! A sort of super-BLT, with added turkey and avocado, we think this is one of the nicest ways to repurpose the remains of your roast. Makes 2 rounds of sandwiches.

Chocolate Yule Log Recipe

Not everybody enjoys the traditional fruitcake served at Christmas, but a lot of people love chocolate! Keep them happy with this light chocolate sponge, which has a chocolate buttercream filling and a rich, chocolatey topping. Delicious! Serves 6-8.

Brussels Sprouts with Toasted Nuts Recipe

Once you have prepared the nuts, this side dish is pretty straightforward and quick to make. We’ve used a mixture of almonds and hazelnuts here, but walnuts or pecans would also be good. Serves 6-8 as a side.

Our Top 5 Christmas Crab Recipes

Whether it's a quick side dish, light lunch or a delicious dinner cooked for family or friends, fresh crab is the perfect way to add a little luxury into your festive dishes. The crab on the Greendale Farm Shop fish counter is a perfect, super-fresh addition to your meals because it’s caught locally by the Greendale fishing fleet. Find our 5 favourite ways to use it at Christmas below:

Greendale Christmas Strudel

A traditional bake found all over Europe, the strudel really comes into its own as a winter-time treat. This recipe has extra festive flavour, thanks to the addition of our own mincemeat – and we can heartily recommend serving it with a good scoop of our new Greendale Vanilla Ice Cream, too! Serves 6.