Type: Nut-free

Steamed courgettes with garlic and oregano
Try to get small and young courgettes for this if you can: their tenderness is heaven when steamed. I love the thin…
Crushed courgettes
This is lovely either as it is (or with a spoonful of yoghurt), as part of a mezze spread, or served alongside…

Roasted aubergine with anchovies and oregano
Anchovies and aubergine might sound like an unlikely combination but it’s one that really works. The anchovies bring more of a salty…

Roasted aubergine with curried yoghurt
All the various components of this dish can be prepared a day in advance, if you want to get ahead. Keep all…

Grilled beef tomatoes with chilli, garlic and ginger
These are delicious as they are, eaten with some bread alongside to mop up the oil. They can also be bulked into…

Hot charred cherry tomatoes with cold yoghurt
One of the beauties of this dish lies in the exciting contrast between the hot, juicy tomatoes and fridge-cold yoghurt, so make…
Gem lettuce with fridge-raid dressing
This started off as a clear-up of all the herbs Tara had lying around in her fridge that needed using up (but…

Cucumber and lamb’s lettuce salad
It can be easy to get a bit set in your ways with salad dressing. Ringing the changes a little – as…

Watermelon, green apple and lime salad
This is delicious as it is – it screams summer, it screams virtuous and it definitely screams delicious – but some salt-roasted…