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    Home • Recipes • Season

    Easy French summer recipes

    A collection of easy French recipes for summer. Each healthy recipe typically uses fresh seasonal produce from the farmers' market such as tomatoes, cherries, strawberries, blueberries, or peaches.

    Includes lighter dishes - many ideal for picnics - plus ice creams and sorbets to finish off a summer menu.

    Looking for something specific? Browse the recipe filter to refine your search.

    • Blueberry Bavarois - A Bavarian Cream Recipe with Lemon
    • Strawberry Mousse
    • Coconut Chia Pudding with Mango
    • No Churn Ice Cream with Candied Fruit (Glace Plombières)
    • Mango Cream Recipe - Like a Mousse without Eggs or Sugar
    • Poichichade: Provençal Garlic Chickpea Spread
    • Whole Baked Sea Bass Recipe - Dinner on a Tray
    • Sweet Corn Soup - Restaurant Style
    • Easiest Peach Tart Recipe with Puff Pastry
    • Peach Melba - Discover Escoffier's Easy Recipe
    • Cheese Biscuits (Sablés au fromage)
    • French Tomato Tart with Mustard - An Easy Summer Lunch from Provence
    • How to Jazz up French Beans: Add a White Peach
    • Sea Bream Fish Baked Provençal Style (Dorade à la Provençale)
    • Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding
    • Simple Green Salad - The Best All-Rounder, Seasonal Side
    • Rhubarb Jam - How to Thicken with Less Sugar, More Flavour
    • Pickled Radishes Without Sugar
    • Strawberry Panna Cotta with Pistachio
    • White Asparagus Recipe: French Clafoutis with Lemon
    • Rhubarb and Custard Cheesecake
    • Raspberry Clafoutis
    • Bavarois Recipe with Red Fruit (Bavarian Cream)
    • Sautéed Green Beans with Garlic
    • Classic Niçoise Salad - With the Authentic Ingredients
    • Mediterranean Stuffed Zucchini (Courgettes farcies)
    • Baked Peaches (with Amaretti)
    • Roasted Fresh Sardines (Sardines Farcies)
    • Corsican Cheese Lasagna (A Lazy Cannelloni au Brocciu Recipe)
    • Rhubarb Sorbet (Sorbet à la rhubarbe)
    • Rhubarb Cake with Orange and Rose
    • Creamy Lemon Ice Cream (Glace au citron)
    • French Pea Soup (Potage Saint-Germain)
    • Cranachan Parfait - A French Twist to the Scottish Dessert
    • Corsican Fig Jam (Confiture de Figues)
    • Easy Raspberry Macaron Filling - White Chocolate Ganache Recipe
    • Roasted Summer Vegetables (Tian de Légumes)
    • Baked Apricots (Abricots Rôtis)
    • Apricot Jam (confiture d'abricot)
    • Spiced Plum Jam

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