Fair trade recipes
Cooking with fair trade ingredients is increasingly easy as more products become available. Try some of our fair trade recipes.
Starters and accompaniments
- Salad Tip Try this salad accompaniment
- Cape chutney This fruity chutney is perfect with cheese or cold meats.
- Bombay salad This salad, with its heady blend of flavours, serves four as a starter or side dish to a curry.
Desserts, cakes and biscuits
- Date and Walnut Cake with a twist Featured on The Guardian website
- Harvie Pudding This pudding can be made with all sorts of combinations of fruit and base.
- Fresh plum cake Delicious as a pudding with cream. This freezes well and improves if kept for a couple of days in a cool place.
- Frozen Christmas Pudding If you fancy a change this Christmas, why not try this tasty alternative?
- Fairtrade Bishop's Delight A delicious and incredibly easy sweet that always goes down a treat at family, parish or party events. Quantities can be doubled, trebled or quadrupled according to requirements.
- Honey ice cream This fantastic ice cream offers a good excuse to indulge. It only takes a few minutes of actual working time - just don't tell people how simple it is!
- Apricot and orange fool When the temperatures rise during summer, try this delicious dessert for some cooling relief.
- Chocolate biscuit bars With chocolate, brazil nuts and fruit, these bars are irresistible.
- Lime and ginger cheesecake A creamy no-bake cheesecake suitable for all occasions, from dessert at a dinner party, or as part of a buffet.
- Fruit scones Delight your friends and family with a proper afternoon tea! Whip up a batch of fruit scones with Traidcraft strawberry jam and a pot of fair trade tea.
- Fruity squares These squares are a great snack to take to work or for kids' lunch boxes.
- Walnut and honey pudding This fair trade winter-warmer is just the thing to make cold nights a little more bearable.
- Apricot flan This flan can be served warm or cold, on its own or with cream or vanilla ice cream.
