30 Summer Recipes Using In-Season Fruits and Vegetables

Whether you buy your produce at a farmers’ market, shop at the grocery store, or grow your own fruits and vegetables, the easiest way to create delicious recipes is to use in-season produce. By using in-season fruits and vegetables in your recipes, not only will you enjoy produce at the peek of freshness, you will save money on your grocery budget.

Summer Recipes Using In-Season Fruits and Vegetables

You can use the arrows to scan through the images in the collection below to find a summer recipe using in-season produce on Foodie.com or you can click on the link below the images to see the entire collection of 30 summer recipes using in-season fruits and vegetables.

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by Alea Milham at Foodie.com

Fruit based desserts usually require less sugar, so you can create delicious, low-calorie desserts by using naturally sweet fruit as the main ingredient. The combination of sweet fruits with savory vegetables produce mouth-watering appetizers and side dishes for summer entertaining.

In-Season Summer Fruits

You can find the summer fruit recipes pictured above by clicking on the image. Below is a list of in-season summer fruits so you can start looking for sales on your favorite fruits and add them to your meal plan.

• Apricots
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• Boysenberries
• Cantaloupe
• Cherries
• Figs
• Grapes
• Nectarines
• Peaches
• Plums
• Raspberries
• Strawberries
• Watermelon

The best time to introduce your family to a new vegetable is when it is in-season. That is when it will be the most flavorful. I have found that cooking most vegetables until they are just fork-tender makes them more appetizing. There is just something about having a little crunch to them that makes them more appealing.

Don’t forget summer is a great time to use fresh herbs in place of dried herbs in your recipes. If you have a recipe that calls for dried herbs, but you want to use fresh herbs from your garden, then use 3 times as much of the fresh herbs as the recipe calls for in dried herbs.

You can grill summer veggies to add even more flavor to your side dishes.

In-Season Summer Vegetables

You can find the summer vegetable recipes pictured above by clicking on the image. Here is a list of a few of the most popular in-season summer vegetables so you can start looking for sales at your grocery store and planning your menu around them.

• Carrots
• Corn
• Cucumbers
• Eggplant
• Green Beans
• Peppers
• Potatoes
• Summer Squash
• Swiss Chard
• Tomatoes
• Zucchini

I created the collection of  summer recipes on Foodie.com as part of a sponsored post for Mode Media. Some of the recipes contained in the collection were created by me, but many were collected by perusing through the recipes on Foodie.com