Four Seasonal, Veggie-Packed Recipes to Warm You Up This Winter
Winter brings about a wide array of delicious fruit and vegetables to cook with. Seasonal produce is generally more flavourful, nutritious, and affordable and is also more likely to be grown locally, reducing food miles. Seasonal produce is typically picked at the peak of ripeness, which means it will have more flavour and nutrients than produce that is picked early and shipped long distances. Winter is the perfect time to get in the kitchen and create delicious meals using fresh, seasonal vegetables. Check out some of my favourite seasonal vegetarian meals below!
Roasted Vegetable Soup with Tiny Pasta – VegKitchen
One of my all-time favourite recipes, this warming, smoky, roasted vegetable soup is full of delicious winter vegetables like carrots, celery and turnip. This recipe is extremely flexible, you can use whatever roast-able veggies you have in your fridge, so you can adapt it to use whatever seasonal produce is available. Some of my favourite add-ins are potatoes, zucchini and a head of garlic, which creates a beautiful rich, slightly-sweet garlic taste to the broth.
Tucking into a great big bowl of pasta is the peak of winter warmth, so this pesto recipe using seasonal avocados is sure to add warmth and flavour to work lunches this July. This pesto also makes for an amazing, levelled-up version of avocado toast or to add as a delicious base layer to a slice of bruschetta. The great thing about pesto is that it is versatile enough to use any nut that is on hand. Some great substitutes for the walnuts this recipe calls for are almonds, pine nuts or cashews.
Vegan Winter Lentil Stew – Budget Bytes
This rich, hearty, winter vegetable stew is perfect to hit any craving for a beefy winter meal, if you want to cut back on meat. Filled with brain-boosting lentils, flavour-absorbing potatoes and carrot and plenty of other delicious flavour-enhancers to create the most warming winter stew you’ll ever have. This one-pot meal serves twelve and freezes well, meaning that making just one batch will continue to feed for days to come!
Pumpkin and Spinach Crustless Quiche – Taste.com
Perfect to make in advance as a delicious lunch option or as a quick and easy weeknight dinner, this gluten-free, crustless quiche is packed with seasonal veggies. Pumpkin and spinach are the stars of the show, but are accompanied beautifully by fresh basil leaves, a generous sprinkle of Danish feta and a fragrant base of caramelised onion and garlic. This flavourful quiche is sure to be a hit with the family for years to come.
Explore the delicious tastes of Australia’s seasonal produce and reduce your carbon footprint by making these fantastic, winter recipes.
By Sarah Panther
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