UK over the warmer months, starting from May and finishing in September. You can’t beat a healthy, seasonal meal like these ten brilliant broad bean recipes offer. Just like asparagus, broad beans should ideally be used as soon as possible after picking. If you can’t bean salad recipe jamie oliver them immediately, pod and freeze them, so you can bank a taste of summer to brighten up the colder months.

These little green beauties should always be podded, but some people like to also remove the tougher outer skins of each bean so they’re extra tender. Broad beans are delicious tossed through simple salads or summery pasta dishes, as a toast topper, in soups, or even blitzed to make fritters and dips. Here are our very best broad bean recipes. Simplicity is key in this 5-ingredient salad.

A beautiful summery pasta dish of orecchiette, tomato, broad beans, fresh basil and pecorino cheese. On the table in just 30 minutes. Paired with gorgeous pea shoots and spring onions, this broad bean salad is a seasonal triumph. Easy to throw together and utterly delicious. Perfect for dunking crudités, breadsticks, or pitta breads.