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

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.

Main courses

Spaghetti alla Norma This recipe from Sicily is named after Bellini’s opera.
Pasta with sun-dried tomato sauce This delightful pasta recipe is tasty and easy to make. Enjoy!
Penne with prawns and creme fraiche This simple seafood dish will delight your party visitors.
Olive and mozzarella pasta salad This pasta salad combines the classic Mediterrean flavours of mozzarella and olives for a simple but tasty meal.
Pasta carbonara This easy dish derives its name from the Italian for coal (carbone), possibly because of its popularity with charcoal makers.
Spaghetti tasker An authentic recipe from Traidcraft's own Salvatore Pignataro.
Rainbow couscous An ideal accompaniment to any meal, couscous is quick, easy to cook, and delicious served hot or cold.
Middle Eastern stuffed apples A great way to use up leftover meat. For a vegetarian alternative, swap the chicken or turkey for fried aubergine or mushroom.

Desserts, cakes and biscuits

Irish tea bread Will keep in an airtight tin for about a week – if you can keep it for that long!
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?
Tropical Fruit Cake This fair trade fruit cake with a twist contains an exotic combination of pineapple, papaya and sultanas.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Apricot flan This flan can be served warm or cold, on its own or with cream or vanilla ice cream.
Walnut and honey pudding This fair trade winter-warmer is just the thing to make cold nights a little more bearable.

Drinks

Elderflower cordial This refreshing drink can be made in batches and stored in the freezer. Perfect for a summer's day.
Strawberry, banana, honey and oat smoothie This tasty smoothie gives you a great, refreshing start to the day as well as providing you with two of your 5-a-day fruit and vegetables.