Made with Omega 3 rich salmon, rich in healthy fatty acids to support brain function and healthy skin and hair, a Daylesford favourite.
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Carrot & Ginger Soup
This is one of the first dishes we served when Daylesford first opened 20 years ago. The recipe is so popular we also sell pouches of carrot and ginger soup in our farmshops and online. Made in small batches on the farm with organic ingredients, the pouches are ready for customers to take home and gently heat through – easy, convenient and delicious.
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Seville Orange Marmalade
There is something so lovely at this time of year about buying a big box of fragrant citrus fruit to make into marmalade.
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Feel-good Chicken Soup – A Guest Recipe From Donna Hay
An extract from Donna Hay’s book Basics to Brilliance using the basic Asian-style poached chicken recipe here.
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Comforting Chicken Broth with Pearl Barley, Ginger & Watercress
Steaming broth brings instant comfort to the airways, while quality chicken broth is revered as an antiviral remedy to support the immune system around the world.
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Lemon Crème Brûlée Tart - A Guest Recipe From Donna Hay
Few sounds are more satisfying than a spoon cracking through the scorched golden top of a crème brûlée to reveal the creamiest vanilla custard core. This is one you need in your entertaining bag of tricks.
Extracted from Even More Basics to Brilliance by Donna Hay (Fourth Estate, £28)
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Golden Almond Milk with Turmeric & Gentle Spices
This golden almond milk is an ancient, natural way to enjoy turmeric and all its health-giving properties.
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Creamed Brussels Sprouts
This is a really indulgent recipe, perfect for Christmas Day and warming suppers on cold winter evenings. It’s also great for entertaining because you can prepare it in advance and simply popping in the oven to finish when your guests arrive.
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Asian-inspired Slaw with Peanut Butter, Soy & Lime Dressing
We serve a version of this dish in the restaurants and on the food to go menus at Daylesford year-round.
We’ve used our new peanut butter in this dressing but cashew butter is also excellent. Make extra and use the dressing to add punchy flavour to other dishes such as salads, grain bowls, noodles, fish and chicken.
For the slaw, feel free to vary the ingredients depending on what’s in season, or what you have handy.
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Winter Vegetable Broth
Nothing is more satisfying than a warming, nourishing bowl of broth on a winter’s day and this one is a celebration of winter vegetables from our organic market garden.
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Instant Tomato & Cannellini Bean Soup – a guest recipe by Amelia Freer
Recipe from Simply Good For You by Amelia Freer.
"This is an ‘instant’ soup. Simply blend the raw ingredients together in a decent blender, and it’s ready. No cooking required."
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Cheddar & Roasted Vegetable Quiche - Guest Recipe
A recipe from A Portrait of British Cheese by Angus D. Birditt.
Roasting vegetables intensifies their naturally sweet flavour, and combining them with sharp, tangy mature cheddar makes for a classic flavour combination. This simple, versatile recipe is a great way to use up odds and ends in your fridge and the resulting delicious quiche is perfect for picnics, garden gatherings and light meals throughout the summer.
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No-Fuss Flatbread - A Guest Recipe From Donna Hay
These super fluffy no-knead flatbreads will change your mind about making bread at home. They're the ultimate minimum-fuss flex, perfect for dipping, mopping or ferrying those tasty toppings.
Extracted from Even More Basics to Brilliance by Donna Hay (Fourth Estate, £28)
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Christmas Granola with Orange & Cranberries
Make a big batch and package into jars or paper bags tied up with string for a wonderfully simple homemade gift.
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Market Garden Summer Rolls with Kimchi Mayonnaise
A pleasure to make, these joyously colourful Market Garden summer rolls will bring a smile to your face as you make them.
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Ancient Grain Bread
An unleavened, gluten free loaf with aromatic toasty flavours, this bread is packed with energy and nutritional value.
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Traditional Soda Bread with Homemade Butter
Quick and simple, with no kneading or proving required, soda bread is the perfect loaf for those just beginning on a bread making journey.
Prepare and bake if you are suddenly out of bread in the house, serve in hearty chunks with warm soup, or alongside smoked mackerel pâté, fresh salad leaves and pickled cucumber as a rustic starter. But without fail, the very best way to serve this delicious loaf is warm from the oven with generous layers of homemade butter – just as we do on our Artisan Bread Making courses at our Cookery School.
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Grilled Chicken Burger With Lemon & Herb Mayonnaise
Perfect for a quiet supper or a barbecue to feed a crowd, this really is a delicious number to have up your sleeve.
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Clementine Custard Tarts – a guest recipe by Wild by Tart
Portuguese-style custard tarts with festive clementine curd.
Inspired by places and people they love, Jemima Jones and Lucy Carr-Ellison, founders of Tart London and Wild by Tart, cook food with big flavours and seasonal ingredients, sustainably sourced where possible.
“We cook food that excites us, using ingredients we know work well together. We look to work with suppliers who have unique stories of sustainability or craftsmanship. Portuguese tarts are just so delicious. The traditional recipe is quite laborious, so we love this cheat recipe and were thrilled by the addition of the clementine curd which worked really well – a perfect festive treat.”
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One Pot Roast Chicken with Fennel, New Potatoes & Pesto
This is a dish that can be enjoyed year-round. Quick to make, it creates minimal need for washing up and delivers on flavour.
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Peanut Butter Cookies – A Guest Recipe from Amelia Freer
Recipe from Simply Good For You by Amelia Freer.
"I have a bit of a thing for biscuits and so tend to avoid buying them otherwise I’d easily eat a whole packet in one go. But going to the effort of making these (admittedly they don’t really require much effort) does slow me down as I want to savour them.
I use coconut sugar as I love the flavour and it has slightly heathier properties than refined white sugar, but use whatever sugar you wish. I make these when I have lots of mouths to feed and there are never any left over."
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Pear & Walnut Upside-Down Cake - A Guest Recipe From Julius Roberts
I love a good cake and this is just that. Juicy, moist and wonderfully light, but most importantly, not too sweet. It sings with warm flavours from the spices, while the walnuts provide an earthy and satisfying crunch. The pears are first cooked in a caramel until sweet and tender, and you then pour the batter over and bake the cake upside down. Once cooked, you turn out the cake and let the caramel trickle into the sponge below.
Once cooked, you turn out the cake and let the caramel trickle into the sponge below. All it needs is a spoon of crème fraîche and you will be happy as can be. I find this cake lasts a good few days, especially if you keep it covered. Just gently warm any leftover slices in a low 140°C fan oven before you tuck in, which brings it back to life.
Extracted from The Farm Table by Julius Roberts (Ebury Press, £27). Photography by Elena Heatherwick.
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Beetroot Soup - A Guest Recipe From Julius Roberts
This is one of those recipes my family just live off, a dish we return to again and again, at its heart deeply simple and uplifting. Velvety and voluptuous, this soup bubbles away like a cauldron of lava and is wonderfully nourishing. Seasoned with a little cider vinegar to brighten the earthy richness, it’s a dinner party classic I often serve as a starter because of its striking colour, but it’s equally at home eaten on your knees. I’ve given you three toppings that will bring this soup to life, so you can vary how you eat it depending on what you have to hand.
Extracted from The Farm Table by Julius Roberts (Ebury Press, £27). Photography by Elena Heatherwick.
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Rhubarb & Blood Orange Breakfast Crumble
This recipe is one that we like to enjoy warm, while it is also delicious cold from the fridge with yoghurt when in a hurry.
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Daylesford Orchard Salad with Flat-iron Chicken
The candied pecans provide a delicious crunch, while the apple and dressing a subtle sweetness. A perfect dish while the kale season lasts.
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High Protein Overnight Oats
This high protein overnight oats recipe is a great start to the day and will leave you feeling fuller for longer.
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Butternut Squash, Honey & Sage Soup
Another award-winning soup. John Hardwick - ‘fantastically smooth and silky, with a great colour and just the right element of sweetness.’
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Ginger Millionaire Slice
With a thick, lightly salted date caramel and a textured nutty base of almonds and ginger biscuits, this is the perfect festive treat.
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Dukkah Cauliflower 'Steak' with Green Tahini, Spinach, Curd & Capers – a guest recipe by Eve Kalinik
You could say that this is as 'meaty' as it gets for your microbiome, due to the feast of fibre the cauliflower provides. The curd or cheese is a natural fermented source of bacteria that is beneficial for our gut health, and a punchy green dressing delights the eyes as well as the taste buds.
Taken from Happy Gut, Happy Mind by Eve Kalinik. Photo by Nassima Rothacker.
Read more about the gut-brain connection by Eve Kalinik here.
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Vegetarian Chilli with Coriander Yoghurt
This vegetarian chilli combines warming spices with chopped root vegetables and beans to make it satisfying and full of plant-based protein.
Join the Cookery School for their Plant Based Kitchen course and discover more ways of packing plant protein into meals at home!
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Pasta with Asparagus & Wild Garlic
A recipe to celebrate the quintessential taste of spring: British asparagus. The perfect, fresh and seasonal supper from our Cookery School.
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Epic Tarragon Roast Chicken - A Guest Recipe From Julius Roberts
There are recipes in this book that i love because they are interesting, there are those that I love for their simplicity, and there are those that I find myself making again and again. This is the latter, a great roast chicken, the heart of home cooking and one of life’s great pleasures. I relish the ritual, my family’s fight over the wings, the secret chef ’s treats of the oysters, the leftover sandwiches and bubbling stocks. There is no meal that makes me feel more at home. In my mind, there are three keys to a good roast chicken . . . juicy meat, brown salty skin and most importantly a ton of sauce. And it’s the sauce of this chicken that really sets it apart: handfuls of tarragon, lashings of cream and a proper dollop of mustard, which when combined with the cooking juices, garlic and wine creates a truly epic mouthful.
Extracted from The Farm Table by Julius Roberts (Ebury Press, £27). Photography by Elena Heatherwick.
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Venison Ragu with Pappardelle
This recipe is one we have served at Daylesford for many years, full of flavour and a firm favourite on our winter menus.
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Farmhouse Chicken Thighs with Fennel, Tarragon & Thyme
Here, a marinade of aromatic herbs, lemon, garlic and white wine or sherry transforms juicy thighs into a wonderfully flavourful dish.
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Butternut Squash, Adlestrop Cheese & Cavolo Nero Crumble
Bold enough to be served as a standalone lunch or supper dish, this recipe is also a great accompaniment to roast chicken, pork or lamb.
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Buttermilk Scotch Pancakes
This buttermilk pancake recipe makes the most deliciously light and fluffy Scotch pancakes.
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35 Day Dry Aged Steaks: How to Cook
James Devonshire, our Head Tutor in the Daylesford Cookery School explains how to cook the perfect steak using a 35 day dry aged T-Bone from our new range of organic steaks. You can watch a video of him in action here.
Read more about what dry ageing is, how and how and why we dry age our meat and the benefits of dry aged steak in our blog, All You Need To Know About Dry Aged Steaks.
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Simple Salad Dressing with Honey & Apple Cider Vinegar
This thick, moreish dressing is a staple with all manner of leafy salads throughout the year at Daylesford.
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Fishcakes – A Guest Recipe by Amelia Freer
Recipe from Simply Good For You by Amelia Freer.
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Dark & White Chocolate Brownies
A crisp, sugary topping gives way to the soft, smooth dark chocolate filling, decadent and rich, these are very hard to resist.
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Green Super Smoothie
Made using our ORGANIC LIVING GREEN FORMULA, a plant-based daily supplement containing 36 nutrient-rich ingredients.
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Carrot Cake - A Guest Recipe From Donna Hay
This is the only carrot cake you need in your life! Layers of super soft cake are warmly (but not overly) spiced and studded with nuts, then coated in the dreamiest lemony cream cheese frosting.
Extracted from Even More Basics to Brilliance by Donna Hay (Fourth Estate, £28)
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Light Mushroom Broth
This simple nourishing broth is full of minerals. The natural sweetness of leek and carrot balances and rounds out the flavours.
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Raw Kale, Turkey, Cranberry & Candied Chestnut Salad
A light way to use up leftover turkey in the days after Christmas, a lovely combination of winter ingredients, it’s one of our favourites.
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Kefir & Blackberry Smoothie
This bright smoothie with blackberry, mint and honey is full of flavour and equipped with soothing and nourishing benefits.
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Whole citrus and almond cake with crème fraîche
This gluten-free cake recipe is taken from Seed Magazine Volume 6. Leave out the crème fraîche to make it dairy free.
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Baked Eggs With Greens, Yoghurt & Chilli Oil
We love it as a weekend dish, cooked for brunch and served with delicious fresh cold-pressed juices.
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Venison, Port & Bay Casserole
This warming winter venison casserole celebrates our venison, farmed organically on our Staffordshire estate.
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Hot Cross Buns
This classic Easter recipe for Hot Cross Buns is a firm Daylesford favourite. Lots of fun to make, especially for children who can help stir the mixture, shape the dough and pipe the crosses.
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Pancakes with Rhubarb Compote & Blood Orange
Make a big batch of the compote to serve with your pancakes and store any extra in your fridge to enjoy with porridge, yoghurt or shortbread.
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Honey, Lemon & Thyme Friands
The use of precious honey and fresh thyme in this recipe lends a slightly floral note to these delicious gluten-free friands.
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Winter Tea Infusion with Ginger, Cinnamon Sticks & Clementine
This simple winter tea infusion is warming and cleansing, gently easing digestion and providing plenty of comfort over colder winter months.
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Strawberry & Yoghurt Cheesecake Jars
The combination of freshly picked organic strawberries, vanilla and cardamom in this recipe is both fragrant and irresistible.
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Heritage Tomato Salad with Green Tapenade Dressing
The contrasting colours of the punchy green tapenade and the rich reds, oranges and yellows of our heritage tomatoes are stunning.
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English Garden Cocktail With Elderflower & Lemon
This English Garden cocktail is a true favourite. Bright and fresh with the addition of English elderflower cordial and garden mint.
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Whole Roast Cauliflower With A Mustard, Blue Cheese & Sage Topping
An ideal main course for vegetarians or as a side with roasted chicken anda selection of steamed greens.
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Creamed Gratin of Cavolo Nero
Ideal as a side or main dish, this versatile gratin is packed with flavour and can be prepared in advance. Simply omit the pancetta to make a vegetarian version.
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Woodland Mushroom & Thyme Risotto
With parmesan cheese & parsley oil.
Risotto is one of the most comforting foods, especially during colder months. It is worth sourcing the different mushrooms stipulated in this recipe so you get a variety of textures and flavours in every bite. The mushroom purée adds a velvety creaminess while the parsley oil lifts the dish and adds colour.
This recipe is inspired by a dish served in our cafés. Discover more seasonal recipes and cooking skills at our Cookery School.
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Garlic & Thyme Mushrooms on Toast
Simple to make and delicious to eat, our Garlic & Thyme Mushrooms on Toast recipe is the perfect warming, speedy supper for autumn evenings.
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Foraged Mushroom Linguine with Brown Butter & Thyme
There is no better way to celebrate the mushroom flavour than with generous doses of organic butter, garlic, salt, pepper and fresh herbs.
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Lamb Hotpot
This traditional recipe makes the most of our organic lamb or mutton and is a wonderful family meal.
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Honey Parfait with Poached Pears & Honeycomb
This delicious honey parfait recipe comes from our founder Carole Bamford’s new book NURTURE.
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Winter Sprout Slaw
This slaw is a wonderful way to make use of seasonal winter vegetables, turning them into a colourful raw salad that is packed with nutritional value. We love to serve this as an accompaniment to festive platters of cold meat and baked potatoes. It is also a fantastic recipe to have up your sleeve when entertaining guests over Christmas as you can prepare it completely in advance.
If you can’t find candy or golden beetroot, traditional ruby red will work beautifully and do add your own favourite raw vegetables such as carrots or cabbage to make the recipe your own.
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Baked Pancakes with a Bubbling Mornay Sauce
Every Shrove Tuesday we think, why don’t we make pancakes more often? Loved by children and adults, this delicious recipe proves why.
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Leek & Cheese Tart with Truffled Brie
This creamy tart balances sweet, mellow leeks with the punch of our semi-soft Adlestrop cheese and the decadence of truffles.
This recipe is inspired by a dish served in our cafés.
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Courgette, Cumin & Lime Fritters – a guest recipe by Kathy Slack
Recipe from From the Veg Patch by Kathy Slack.
"For a tasty, fuss-free supper, you really can’t beat a fritter. Here, cumin, coriander and lime embellish an otherwise straightforward batter good for any grated veg, but do experiment with other flavourings – basil and lemon or smoked paprika and chilli – or leave out altogether. Our heroes are courgettes this time, but they could just as easily be grated carrot, beetroot, parsnips or cauliflower another day. And after you’ve made them for supper, try them cold for a packed lunch, or cook them small and serve as pre-dinner nibbles. Endlessly versatile, this is a real workhorse recipe.”
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Butterflied Leg of Lamb
The combination of fennel seeds, fresh rosemary and thyme in this recipe is the perfect complement to our pasture fed organic lamb.
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Fig Salad With Burrata – A Guest Recipe From Wendy Rowe
World renowned makeup artist, Wendy Rowe believes that the key to good skin is to feed it with the right nutrients.
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Basic Asian-style Poached Chicken – a guest recipe by Donna Hay
Recipe from Basics to Brilliance by Donna Hay.
Once you have made this recipe, try it in Donna’s Feel-Good Chicken Soup.
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Daylesford Market Garden Spritz
This true favourite in The Legbar at our Cotswolds farm. We love ice cold and served with salted MARCONA ALMONDS and NOCELLARA OLIVES.
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Roast Salmon with Peas, Bacon & Braised Little Gem
“Wild salmon comes into season at the start of the summer, so this dish is based around pairing it with other seasonal ingredients. The accompaniment is a twist on the classic French dish, ‘petit pois à la française’, something I’m quite partial to, in which peas and lettuce are braised in stock and butter. My husband likes the addition of the bacon, but you could happily leave it out to make it a meat-free dish.”
Carole Bamford
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Lamb Chops with Juniper & Fennel Seeds – a guest recipe by Tait Miller
Discover Tait's top tips for wild cooking in our journal here.
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Open Buckwheat Crêpes with Wilted Greens & Ricotta
A guest recipe by Thomasina Miers.
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Mashed Potato with Leeks
Everyone’s favourite comfort dish, a good mashed potato is always a winner at supper time.
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Smashed Broad Beans, Peas & Mint
This side dish makes the most of fresh, seasonal flavours. It is particularly good with lamb and makes a good addition to summer barbecues
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Homemade Elderflower Cordial
"There is little more refreshing in the summer months than the cool clinking of ice cubes in a jugful of homemade elderflower cordial."
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Penyston Brie & Celeriac Tartiflette
This brie and celeriac tartiflette is a twist on the classic French dish and the perfect recipe to showcase our soft, creamy penyston.
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Warm Panzanella Salad with Daylesford Heritage Tomatoes
A quick, filling and thoroughly easy dish for a vegetarian summer supper or as part of a delicious lunch, celebrating our heritage tomatoes. We grow over 40 varieties of tomato in our organic Market Garden and every year we are in awe of their colours, texture and unrivalled sweetness. Most of the time we tend to enjoy them raw but every now and then a glut calls for a little variation and this quick cooking technique brings out their wonderful flavour.