The spring vegetables chart below will quickly reveal what vegetables are in season during the spring months of April, May and June?
Nature is very generous during the spring months and provides us with refreshing and healthy seasonal vegetables to prepare the most delicious Mediterranean recipes. We encourage you to eat and cook with spring vegetables now that they are so fresh and abundant, we certainly do!
| Spring Vegetables Chart | |
|---|---|
| Vegetable | Ideas and Uses |
| Artichoke | Grilled with a dash of olive oil or allioli; in rice dishes stewed with orange |
| Asparagus | Sauteed; steamed; as an omelette |
| Broad bean, fava bean | Stewed; in salad with boiled ham when tender |
| Broccoflower | |
| Broccoli | Stewed with potatoes and other vegetables |
| Calçot scallion | Grilled with romesco sauce |
| Cauliflower | Boiled; with potaotes; breaded and fried |
| Chard, Swiss chard | Steamed; with rice; fried with garlic |
| Corn salad | In salads; by itself; with lettuce |
| Cucumber | As salad with basil; with tomatoes and olive oil; with yogurt |
| Fennel | Seeds in pastry; bulbs stewed |
| Green beans | Boiled; steamed and seasoned; in paella valenciana |
| Green garlic | In omelete; added to stews |
| Green pepper | In salads; Majorcan trempo; with rice |
| Kale | |
| Leek | Stewed; grilled in broth; soup |
| Mushroom | Sauteed; grilled with garlic and parsley; in fricassee-style stews |
| Pea | With rice; with asparagus; in seafood paella; in stews; as vegetable accompaniment; as side dish |
| Romaine lettuce, cos lettuce | As salad by itself and seasoned; with other raw vegetables |
| Scallion, green onion, spring onion | In salads; as milder substitute of regular onion |
| Snap pea, sugar pea, sugarsnap pea, snow pea | |
| Spinach | Boiled; stewed with pines and raisins; in Catalan pizza-like coques; as omelette filling |
| Summer squash | |
| Tomato | In salads; as sauce; as sofregit; in samfaina, ratatouille; any kind of stew |
| Winter squash | |
| Zucchini | In samfaina, ratatouille; with yogurt; slaouia |
Do you know of a veggie that is not listed here? Do you eat other vegetables used in the whole Mediterranean or in your region or town? Let us know in the comments below and we may add it to the list
