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    Home • Recipes • Season

    Easy French Summer Recipes

    A delicious collection of easy French summer recipes using fresh seasonal produce like tomatoes, herbs, cherries, strawberries, peaches, and more. Find ideas for light summer dinners, picnics, and refreshing desserts such as ice creams and sorbets - perfect for relaxed outdoor meals and elegant entertaining.

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    • large trifle bowl made with macarons and topped with fresh vanilla cream, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries and decorated with macaron shells
      Macaron Sherry Trifle with Berries
    • two rows of whole sardine fish stuffed together in a roasting dish with fresh parsley
      Roasted Fresh Sardines (Sardines Farcies)
    • raspberry macarons with a white chocolate ganache and raspberries, sitting on top of each other next to roses
      Raspberry Macarons (White Chocolate Ganache Filling)
    • cup of lemon ice cream with strawberries
      Creamy Lemon Ice Cream (Glace au citron)
    • mini cup of creamy ice cream with a sprig of lemon verbena leaves
      Lemon Verbena Ice Cream (Glace à la verveine)
    • individual ice cream with candied fruits on plate with lavender, apricot sauce and a macaron
      No Churn Ice Cream with Candied Fruit (Glace Plombières)
    • scoops of dark grey ice cream topped with black sesame seeds and redcurrants, served with a sesame tuile cookie
      Black Sesame Ice Cream
    • easy berry dessert make with an elderflower cream and toasted like a creme brulee
      Easy Berry Dessert with Elderflower Cream
    • 3 bowls of pea soup with fresh peas and pods
      French Pea Soup Recipe with Ham (Potage Saint Germain)
    • French Semolina Cake (Gâteau de Semoule)
    • bubbling plum jam with spices
      Spiced Plum Jam
    • large plate with thinly sliced heirloom tomatoes, both red and yellow, topped with olive oil, spring onion or cebettes, herbs and seasoning with a Provencal backdrop
      Tomato and Onion Salad (Carpaccio de Tomates)
    • a half Cantaloupe melon scooped out and filled with Port as a simple French starter
      Melon au Porto: Easy French Cantaloupe Recipe
    • baked peach without skin and stuffed with a mixture of amaretti or almonds and raspberries
      Baked Peaches with Amaretti
    • large tomatoes in a roasting tin baked with garlic and herbs from Provence
      Slow Roasted Tomatoes with Garlic and Herbs from Provence
    • baked tomato tart with french niçoise olives, basil and a green salad
      French Tomato Tart with Mustard - An Easy Summer Lunch from Provence
    • sliced potatoes tossed in white wine, vinaigrette and fresh chopped herbs
      Authentic French Potato Salad - Recipe Without Mayonnaise (à la Parisienne)
    • slices of toasted bread with cheese, nuts, lettuce and bacon
      Warm Goat Cheese Salad (salade de chèvre chaud)
    • plate composed of a classic French salad Nicoise with many ingredients next to a basil plant and French baguette
      Classic French Niçoise Salad Recipe from Nice
    • tossed green salad with seasonal fresh vegetables such as arugula, avocado and other greens with toasted nuts and seeds
      Simple Green Salad - The Best All-Rounder, Seasonal Side
    • green beans tossed in basil, French vinaigrette, almonds, shallots and white peach
      French Green Bean Salad with White Peach
    • Parisian salad with ham, Emmental, hard-boiled eggs, dry-fried mushrooms and mustard vinaigrette
      Parisian Salad (French Ham and Cheese Salad)
    • Traditional French citronnade lemon drink made with lemons, water and sugar
      Citronnade - French Homemade Lemonade Recipe
    • Scooped out Maltese orange filled with chopped strawberries and orange and served in a bowl of crushed ice
      Strawberries with Orange (Fraises à la Maltaise)
    • land and sea salad with a savoury beet macaron
      French Charcuterie Plate Land and Sea (Salade Terre et Mer)
    • jar of bright pink pickled radishes with bay leaves
      Pickled Radishes Without Sugar - Quick Refrigerator Pickles
    • fig jam with bread and cheese
      Corsican Fig Jam Recipe (Confiture de Figues)
    • stuffed courgettes with cheese
      Mediterranean Stuffed Zucchini (Courgettes farcies)
    • French tarts with strawberries and pistachio pastry cream
      Strawberry Tart with Pistachio Pastry Cream
    • large wine glasses with marinated strawberries in orange liqueur and orange topped with vanilla Chantilly cream
      Strawberries Romanoff (Fraises Romanoff)
    • French vacherin ice cream meringue cake with layers
      French Ice Cream Cake (Vacherin Glacé)
    • shallow bowl of white poached vanilla peaches topped with homemade raspberry puree and vanilla ice cream with some fresh lemon verbena leaves
      Peach Melba - Authentic French Recipe
    • Pouring a raspberry coulis or sauce into a jug next to lemon and fresh raspberries
      Simple Raspberry Coulis
    • cherry chocolate cream macaron trifles
      Black Forest Creams using Cracked Macarons
    • mini macaron raspberry trifles
      Mini Macaron Trifles - Parisian Ispahan Style
    • 4 pots of homemade French apricot jam with lavender and reduced in sugar
      French Apricot Jam with Lavender
    • 2 scoops of rhubarb sorbet topped with a dried rhubarb chip
      Rhubarb Sorbet Recipe with Rose
    • long wafer thin rhubarb chip on a bowl of sorbet
      Dried Rhubarb Chips
    • French tian, a classic French dish of thinly sliced baked summer vegetables
      French Tian de Légumes (Provençal Vegetable Bake)
    • Lemon chicken thighs baked with garlic, herbs and fresh lemon in a rustic French baking dish
      Lemon Chicken Thighs with Garlic & Herbs
    • dish of halved apricots baked with lavender and French honey
      Baked Apricots with Honey and Lavender
    • Baked cherry clafoutis dessert in a round dish topped with powdered sugar and flaked almonds
      Cherry Clafoutis Recipe - Traditional French Custard Dessert

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