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Mediterranean Spring Vegetables

what vegetables are in season?

The spring vegetables chart below will quickly tell you what vegetables are in season in the months of April, May and June?

Spring vegetables
Spring vegetables

A pillar of the Mediterranean diet

Nature is very generous during the spring months and provides us with succulent, refreshing and healthy seasonal vegetables to prepare the most delicious Mediterranean diet recipes. It's up to you to take advantage of the spring vegetables gift, we certainly do!

Next to each spring vegetable's name we have added common culinary uses in the Mediterranean diet cooking and refer to Mediterranean recipes when appropriate. As usual such a seasonal vegetables chart is a work in progress. We will keep adding cuisine uses and references to relevant Mediterranean recipes you will enjoy.


Spring Vegetables Chart

VegetableMediterranean Recipe Ideas and Uses
ArtichokeGrilled with a dash of olive oil or allioli; in rice dishes stewed with orange
AsparagusSauteed; steamed; as an omelette
Broad bean, fava beanStewed; in salad with boiled ham when tender
Broccoflower
BroccoliStewed with potatoes and other vegetables
Calçot scallionGrilled with romesco sauce
CauliflowerBoiled; with potaotes; breaded and fried
Chard, Swiss chardSteamed; with rice; fried with garlic
Corn saladIn salads; by itself; with lettuce
CucumberAs salad with basil; with tomatoes and olive oil; with yogurt
FennelSeeds in pastry; bulbs stewed
Green beansBoiled; steamed and seasoned; in paella valenciana
Green garlicIn omelete; added to stews
Green pepperIn salads; Majorcan trempo; with rice
Kale
LeekStewed; grilled in broth; soup
MushroomSauteed; grilled with garlic and parsley; in fricassee-style stews
PeaWith rice; with asparagus; in seafood paella; in stews; as vegetable accompaniment; as side dish
Romaine lettuce, cos lettuceAs salad by itself and seasoned; with other raw vegetables
Scallion, green onion, spring onionIn salads; as milder substitute of regular onion
Snap pea, sugar pea, sugarsnap pea, snow pea
SpinachBoiled; stewed with pines and raisins; in Catalan pizza-like coques; as omelette filling
Summer squash
TomatoIn salads; as sauce; as sofregit; in samfaina, ratatouille; any kind of stew
Winter squash
ZucchiniIn samfaina, ratatouille; with yogurt; slaouia
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