What should you be cooking in July?

Home grown peppers are in season this month, and in our Cookery School video Delia shows how to prepare them. Click here to watch.

See our selection of Delia’s recipes using ingredients available in July...

Fruit and Vegetables: Apricots (imported), Artichokes, Aubergines, Beetroot, Blackberries, Blackcurrants, Blueberries, Broad beans, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Cherries (imported), Chicory, Chilli peppers, Courgettes, Cucumber, Fennel (home-grown), Garlic, Gooseberries, Mushrooms, Nectarines (imported), Onions, Okra, Oranges (navel), Peaches (imported), Peas (home grown), Peppers (home grown), Potatoes (Desiree, King Edward, New, Salad, Pentland Javelin), Plums, greengages and damsons, Raspberries, Redcurrants, Rhubarb, Rocket, Runner beans, Shallots, Sorrel, Spinach (home grown), Spring onions, Strawberries, Squash, Sweetcorn (home grown), Tomatoes, Turnips (baby), Watercress

Meat and Game: Chicken, Rabbit, Lamb (spring, British), Pork, Quail, Venison,

Fish and Shellfish: Crab (spider), Haddock, Herring, Mussels (farmed), Salmon (Atlantic farmed), Seabass (farmed), Sole (Dover) Trout (rainbow)

Fish recommendations are a guide only; please check current information with the Marine Conservation Society, Good Fish Guide

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The Delia Online Cookery School: For more summer dessert ideas, watch our video for custard, meringues, brulees and Pavlova. Just click the image to play.

Summer Trifle with Raspberries

This is a moveable feast, because any combination can be used - all strawberries, or strawberries and raspb...

This is a moveable feast, because any combination can be used - all strawberries, or strawberries and raspberries mixed, or even a few redcurrants would be a great add...

All-in-one Sponge Cake

This sponge cake uses Delia's all-in-one method. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch how to make othe...

This sponge cake uses Delia's all-in-one method. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch how to make other sponge cakes, just click the image to play

30 minutes - 35 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Apricot Galettes with Amaretto

Galettes are very thin discs of flaky pastry which have no sides, the pastry is barely there, yet it gives ...

Galettes are very thin discs of flaky pastry which have no sides, the pastry is barely there, yet it gives a light, very crisp background to all kinds of toppings, bot...

10 minutes - 12 minutes

to cook

Baby Summer Vegetables

This is a versatile recipe that can be served either warm, as a vegetable, or cold, as a salad – a truly be...

This is a versatile recipe that can be served either warm, as a vegetable, or cold, as a salad – a truly beautiful combination of those first, young, tender vegetables...

7 minutes - 8 minutes

to cook

Baked Lamb with Rosemary

Lamb is in peak condition in mid-summer, as it has then had the benefit of the sweet, young, spring grazing...

Lamb is in peak condition in mid-summer, as it has then had the benefit of the sweet, young, spring grazing. At this time I would only serve it plain-roasted ...

2 hours - 30 minutes

to cook

Baked Vanilla Cheesecake with Redcurrants

I have made many cheesecakes over the years but this one is my current favourite. It’s absolutely ...

I have made many cheesecakes over the years but this one is my current favourite. It’s absolutely perfect in the summer season when there are so many soft fru...

55 minutes - 1 hour

to cook

Barbecued Sardines

Sardines have a very evocative flavour and aroma that perfectly suit eating out of doors. This is a reci...

Sardines have a very evocative flavour and aroma that perfectly suit eating out of doors. This is a recipe that can easily be prepared well ahead of time and, if th...

4 minutes

to cook

Red Rice Salad with Feta Cheese

This is a lovely salad for outdoor eating on a warm, sunny summer's day. The Delia Online Cookery School...

This is a lovely salad for outdoor eating on a warm, sunny summer's day. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch how to cook long grain rice in our video, click...

55 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Cevapcici

These are delicious little minced sausages threaded on to skewers. The Delia Online Cookery School: ...

These are delicious little minced sausages threaded on to skewers. The Delia Online Cookery School: Find out why Delia wanted to launch her cookery school - cl...

10 minutes - 20 minutes

to cook

Aubergine and Tomato Salad

I am indebted to Chris Payne, who very generously gave me this splendid recipe. If you don't possess a r...

I am indebted to Chris Payne, who very generously gave me this splendid recipe. If you don't possess a ridged grill pan, you could grill the aubergine slices till n...

Vegetarian

Lemon Grass and Coriander Vichyssoise

In summer, if the weather is really hot, nothing could be more refreshing than a chilled soup. Leeks, wh...

In summer, if the weather is really hot, nothing could be more refreshing than a chilled soup. Leeks, which have made this particular recipe famous, are not availab...

Vegetarian

Chilled Yoghurt and Cucumber Soup

This cool, light and subtle soup is incredibly easy and quick to make. However it does need some fresh s...

This cool, light and subtle soup is incredibly easy and quick to make. However it does need some fresh summer cucumbers in season for the best flavour of all. Th...

Vegetarian

English Gooseberry Creams

I hadn’t fully appreciated the Englishness of gooseberries until I met a very snooty publisher in New York,...

I hadn’t fully appreciated the Englishness of gooseberries until I met a very snooty publisher in New York, who did not want to publish my Summer Collection. ‘What’...

Eton Mess

This recipe, inspired by the strawberry-and-cream dessert traditionally served at Eton College on 4 June, i...

This recipe, inspired by the strawberry-and-cream dessert traditionally served at Eton College on 4 June, is great for nervous meringue makers – because the meringues ...

1 hour

to cook

Apricot and Pecan Muffins

I love American home cooking, and one of the things I feel Americans are particularly good at is baking (bo...

I love American home cooking, and one of the things I feel Americans are particularly good at is baking (both at home and commercially). The American muffin reigns ...

20 minutes - 30 minutes

to cook

Peaches Baked in Marsala

This combination of fresh, ripe peaches, and the luscious flavour of Marsala wine make a supremely good sum...

This combination of fresh, ripe peaches, and the luscious flavour of Marsala wine make a supremely good summer dessert that has the added advantage of being made well ...

Fresh Shelled Pea Soup

This soup is a lovely dark green colour and has all the wonderful ingredients and flavours of peas à la Fra...

This soup is a lovely dark green colour and has all the wonderful ingredients and flavours of peas à la Française – peas, spring onions, lettuce and bacon – blended in...

10 minutes - 15 minutes

to cook

Fresh Tomato Soup with Croutons

When I first wrote on cookery, a reader wrote to the Editor of my newspaper, complaining my recipe for toma...

When I first wrote on cookery, a reader wrote to the Editor of my newspaper, complaining my recipe for tomato soup didn't work. Rather conscientiously, the Editor t...

35 minutes - 40 minutes

to cook

Fromage Frais Cheesecake

Whenever I see cheesecake on a menu I'm filled with longing – there's something awfully comforting about ch...

Whenever I see cheesecake on a menu I'm filled with longing – there's something awfully comforting about cheesecake – but the question always arises as to whether it w...

Gammon and Broad Beans

Bacon and broad beans have a great affinity, and there’s the added bonus of some bacon-flavoured stock for ...

Bacon and broad beans have a great affinity, and there’s the added bonus of some bacon-flavoured stock for a broad bean soup if the weather’s not good. And if the w...

1 hour

to cook

Glazed Baby Turnips

Baby turnips about the size of golf balls are creamy white with leafy green tops, and usually sold in bunch...

Baby turnips about the size of golf balls are creamy white with leafy green tops, and usually sold in bunches in the summer when they are in season. The Delia Onlin...

6 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Globe Artichokes with Vinagrette

An artichoke is, without doubt, a work of art – dark and pale green leaves with purple edges forming a perf...

An artichoke is, without doubt, a work of art – dark and pale green leaves with purple edges forming a perfectly shaped bud. There’s something extremely satisfying ...

30 minutes - 40 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Gooseberry and Elderflower Ice Cream

This ice cream is unbelievably good. Perhaps one of the best treats of early summer would be to serve A ...

This ice cream is unbelievably good. Perhaps one of the best treats of early summer would be to serve A Very Easy One Crust Gooseberry Pie accompanied by home-made ...

Italian Rice Creams

For those who get nostalgic for the rice puddings of their childhood, this is the adult answer, a more soph...

For those who get nostalgic for the rice puddings of their childhood, this is the adult answer, a more sophisticated and modern interpretation. Later on in the summ...

What should you be cooking in July?

Summer Trifle with Raspberries

All-in-one Sponge Cake

Apricot Galettes with Amaretto

Baby Summer Vegetables

Baked Lamb with Rosemary

Baked Vanilla Cheesecake with Redcurrants

Barbecued Sardines

Red Rice Salad with Feta Cheese

Cevapcici

Aubergine and Tomato Salad

Lemon Grass and Coriander Vichyssoise

Chilled Yoghurt and Cucumber Soup

English Gooseberry Creams

Eton Mess

Apricot and Pecan Muffins

Peaches Baked in Marsala

Fresh Shelled Pea Soup

Fresh Tomato Soup with Croutons

Fromage Frais Cheesecake

Gammon and Broad Beans

Glazed Baby Turnips

Globe Artichokes with Vinagrette

Gooseberry and Elderflower Ice Cream

Italian Rice Creams

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