Fruits and veggies are always best when they are in season. Knowing what is in season can open up so many options and making planning meals a lot easier. April brings an abundance of asparagus, carrots, beans, lime, strawberries, cherries, and so much more.
Here are more than sixty recipes I picked from the archives that I think are wonderfully made when fresh in season. I hope you enjoy them.
Recipes to Make in April
Turmeric Rice with Chicken and Peas
This easy one-pot turmeric rice with chicken and peas gets ready in just 20 minutes. A full meal with rice, chicken, and veggies is an absolute kids' favorite too. With easy-to-find ingredients, this can be made any time of the week or weekend.
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Sautéed Asparagus with Cranberry and Nuts
This sautéed asparagus recipe is the perfect side dish with almost any main courses such as leg of lamb, roast chicken, or roast beef. With crunchy nuts and tart cranberries, it takes less than 15 minutes to make.
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Avocado Salad
A creamy avocado-based salad is an easy 30-second side dish to make. It's light and refreshing. Throw in some veggies and you’ve got a quick avocado salad for lunch or dinner that you can eat on the run
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Leek and Asparagus Quiche
Quiche is a perfect side dish for breakfast, brunch, or a festive meal. This quiche is made with leek and asparagus and is simple and easy. And yet, it's also a dish that can be made ahead of time. Asparagus quiche is a great way to enjoy asparagus in season. I'm using a homemade quiche crust, but ready-to-roll store-bought works just as well.
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Chicken and Broccoli Zucchini Noodle Stir Fry
Stir-fry is a quick and easy way to get dinner on the table in less than 30 minutes. Substitute the flour noodles with some zucchini noodles and you also have a healthier meal. As a result, I'm sure this chicken and broccoli zucchini noodle stir-fry will soon become your next favorite meal. It's rich with delicate Asian flavors of ginger, garlic, and sesame oil, and also has a wonderful crunch from the cashews.
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Sautéed Sesame Green Beans
This green bean dish uses fresh green beans, sesame seeds, and garlic. Sesame Green Beans are served warm and can be an entree or a side dish. This recipe is also gluten-free and dairy-free.
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Easter Egg Cupcakes
These carrot cupcakes use my oil-based recipe with carrots, nuts, and raisins. Topped with candy eggs these make perfect Easter cupcakes. A surprisingly simple recipe with easy-to-find ingredients.
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Super Easy Healthy Chicken Wrap with Avocado and Yogurt Dressing
These healthy chicken wraps are simple, super easy and fun to make. The creamy avocado salad with yogurt and mustard dressing is so delicious. I bet you will be making it often.
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Chicken Wrap with Avocado
This chicken wrap is simple, super easy, and fun to make. The creamy avocado salad with yogurt and mustard dressing is so delicious. I bet you will be making it often.
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Avocado egg sandwich
Need a tasty breakfast? Here’s an avocado egg sandwich recipe that is sure to delight! Avocado adds healthy fats and a rich taste to this breakfast favorite. Eggs provide an excellent source of nutrition and support healthy weight loss
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Easy Beet Salad
Beets are a healthy, inexpensive, and versatile root vegetable. They are easy to use and taste good on their own boiled or roasted. This beet salad recipe combines the beets with a few other simple vegetables in refreshing lemon dressing.
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Easiest Carrot Cake Muffins
These carrot cake muffins have all the goodness of carrot cake in bite-size size. Perfect for breakfast, brunch, or quick snacks. These are light and airy but not overly sweet. Made with grated carrots, nuts, and dates.
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Blueberry Muffins Recipe
A good muffin recipe is a must-have on hand. This blueberry muffins recipe is my go-to for many variations. A moist butter-based vanilla batter made with cream cheese and sour cream keeps them moist with a soft crumb. The crumble topping the best part of course.
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Carrot Zucchini Fritters Recipe
A good appetizer or side dish served with the main course can often be the star at the table. Make these carrot zucchini fritters the next start at your dinner table. Simple, easy and effortless with step by step recipe and video on how to make it. No oven needed and not loaded with cheese, these zucchini fritters are light and perfect served with a meal or as a light snack.
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Oven-Baked Carrot Sticks
The oven-baked carrot sticks are an easy way to eat heart-healthy veggies more often. Baking veggies make them sweeter and more delicious. This simple and easy recipe will have you and the family eating carrots often because they take less than 30 minutes to make.
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Fresh Carrot Salad
Most carrot salads use only carrots and are served as a side dish. This fresh carrot salad is much more by using raisins, cranberries, nuts, and a honey-lemon vinaigrette that keeps it refreshing, light, and tastes great
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Leek and Asparagus Quiche
Quiche is a perfect side dish for breakfast, brunch, or a festive meal. This quiche is made with leek and asparagus and is simple and easy. And yet, it's also a dish that can be made ahead of time. Asparagus quiche is a great way to enjoy asparagus in season. I'm using a homemade quiche crust, but ready-to-roll store-bought works just as well.
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Crustless Mushroom Quiche
If you love quiches, then this is a quick and easy crustless mushroom quiche. It's not a frittata but a classic quiche made without a crust and with just a few small adjustments. Perfect for a quick breakfast or brunch.
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Skillet Chicken with Mushroom Sauce
This chicken with mushroom sauce is a winning combination every single time. Tender pieces of chicken are cooked in a creamy mushroom sauce to make a delicious skillet meal. Absolute comfort food that gets done in only 20 minutes. Serve it over pasta, noodles or mashed potatoes.
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Mushroom Pasta in 15 minutes
This mushroom pasta recipe is comfort food and dinner in just 15 minutes. Mushrooms and peas cooked in a creamy rich white sauce, yet not loaded with cream or cheese. Perfect when you need a super-quick meal using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen.
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Breadcrumb Stuffed Mushrooms
This Breadcrumb Stuffed mushroom is a super easy and simple appetizer or side dish recipe. Takes barely any time to make and the cheesy bread crumbs just melt in the mouth. The perfect way to dress a celebration or the weekend dinner table. I use large mushrooms but any size mushrooms work just as well.
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Meat Stuffed Mushrooms with Minced Turkey and Cheese
These meat stuffed mushrooms make excellent appetizers for any fancy dinner or celebration table such as Thanksgiving or Christmas. In fact, they are so pretty on their own with the melted cheese on top; they need nothing to make them pretty. The juices from the meat nestle inside the cap and keep them juicy that it’s difficult to have just one.
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Mushroom Pizza
Give your classic pizza a generous topping of mushrooms to make this delicious mushroom pizza. Use my homemade overnight pizza dough and 5 minutes pizza sauce and make the pizza night fun for the full family.
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Mushroom Masala Restaurant Style
A simple yet popular dish on every Indian restaurant menu is the mushroom masala. Lightly spiced in a creamy tomato-yogurt gravy in less than 20 minutes. It makes a perfect side dish or as a main course for a vegetarian feast.
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Olive Pizza with Red Onions
If you've never topped your pizza with olives and onions you are missing out. This olive pizza with red onions is made with my no-fail homemade pizza dough that gives a beautiful crisp edge and my 5 min pizza sauce. Easy, peasy.
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Caramelized Onions Roasted Red Peppers Quiche
A tender, flaky, buttery homemade pie crust filled with caramelized onions and roasted red peppers. Topped with an egg custard mixture and baked until set. Perfect for brunch or entertaining family and friends.
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Chicken with Rice Pilaf
This chicken with rice is a one-pot meal that gets ready in less than 30 minutes. Fragrant rice sauteed with mild spices, and seared chicken, then cooked until light and fluffy. Perfect lunch or dinner any time of the week.
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Sheet Pan Chicken with Smashed Potatoes
Get a quick and simple weeknight dinner with this sheet pan chicken and smashed potatoes recipe, where a few ingredients go a long way. Watch the video to see how it's done.
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Cilantro Lemon Chicken
Morsels of chicken coated with a cilantro lime marinade make a perfect appetizer, side, or served with some buttered noodles for the main course. This cilantro lemon chicken is as quick as any stir-fry dish with no added fuss and takes less than 20 minutes to make.
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Blueberry Jam - No-Pectin (3 ingredients)
The best jams are always homemade. This homemade blueberry jam without pectin is simple and easy to make. Blueberries have plenty of natural pectin so you don't need to add any. And it is also a great low-sugar blueberry jam.
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Strawberry Jam No-Pectin (3 ingredients)
This homemade strawberry jam is simple and easy to make. It uses less sugar and no pectin or artificial flavoring. And, it takes less than 30 minutes to make. Save it in the fridge or can these jams for the whole year.
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Homemade Cherry jam No Pectin - Low Sugar
Making jam at home is an absolute treat and worth the time. You don't have to make big batches nor do you have to can every jam. Here I make a small batch of good, wholesome homemade all-natural cherry jam without pectin or preservatives. And this recipe is as simple and easy as can be.
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Blueberry Bars
This simple, easy recipe for blueberry bars has a buttery crust on the bottom, cream-cheese based blueberry filling in the center topped with crumble. Use fresh or frozen blueberries.
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Cherry Bars
Give your classic cherry pie filling a crumble twist with these cherry bars. Sweet cherries between a rich, buttery base on the bottom and crumble on top. A surprisingly easy recipe to make any time of the year.
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Easy Blueberry Crumble
There is nothing more delicious in summer than crumble desserts with seasonal fresh berries such as this blueberry crumbles. Bubbling and delicious blueberries topped with a buttery crumble baked until crisp and golden. The best part is it takes just 5 minutes to prep and 25 minutes to bake.
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Best EVER Cherry Pie
This is the best cherry pie recipe you will ever make. My homemade cherry filling made with fresh or frozen cherries takes just 5 minutes to make is baked in between buttery flaky homemade double pie crusts.
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Classic Blueberry Tart
This blueberry tart is an absolute classic and luxurious dessert with rich, creamy vanilla pastry cream in a buttery shortcrust pastry, topped with a delicious blueberry compote and garnished with fresh blueberries. A simple, easy and effortless recipe that can be done ahead of time.
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French Lemon Curd Tart
A French lemon curd tart is also known as 'Tarte Au Citron' is the ultimate lemon dessert. A rich and tangy homemade lemon curd made with fresh lemon juice and egg yolks in a buttery homemade shortcrust pastry.
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Easy Strawberry Tart
This fresh strawberry tart is made with a buttery shortcrust pastry filled with vanilla pastry cream and dressed with slices of seasonal strawberries. A surprisingly simple and easy dessert that can be made ahead of time.
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Blueberry Panna Cotta Tart Recipe
Give the classic Italian Panna Cotta a blueberry make-over with this Blueberry Panna Cotta tart. Velvety thick cream in a buttery no-bake cookie crust. Create three ombre layers as I have or just one single layered Panna Cotta tart. Perfect for a weekend dessert or to impress family and friends.
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Homemade Granola - Blueberry Almond Granola
Start your day with a bowl of homemade granola. This batch with toasted almonds and blueberry along with the natural sweetness of honey takes five minutes to prepare and less than 30 minutes to bake.
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Lemon Cupcakes
This lemon cupcake recipe is for those who love lemon. Moist, zesty, yet, light and airy. Filled with lemon curd and topped with lemon buttercream. Based on my one-bowl recipe, these cupcakes are simple and easy to make.
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Strawberry Ice Cream
This strawberry ice cream is rich, creamy, and packed with delicious chunks of strawberries. It uses only 3 ingredients and takes less than 5 minutes to make. Plus it's a no-churn so you don't need an ice cream maker. Use fresh or frozen strawberries any time of the year
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3 Ingredients Lemon Ice Cream No Churn
This lemon ice cream is bursting with rich lemon flavors. This simple, easy and effortless no-churn lemon ice cream recipe uses only three ingredients and takes less than five minutes to prepare. This lemon ice cream uses lemon curd and is the ultimate refreshing summer dessert.
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Blueberry Ice cream No-Churn
With just 3 ingredients and 5 minutes to prep, this no-churn blueberry ice cream is always a winner. Rich and creamy, made with fresh or frozen blueberries. This recipe is a great addition to your no-churn ice cream collection.
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Best Strawberry Mousse
This strawberry mousse recipe is the perfect way to celebrate strawberries. Made with fresh or frozen strawberries, whipped cream, and gelatin (or agar-agar) this takes less than 30 minutes to make.
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Strawberry Panna Cotta
Give your classic Italian dessert a strawberry treat with this elegant strawberry panna cotta. Surprisingly easy to make with just 5 ingredients and 10 minutes to prepare. Perfect make-ahead dessert for entertaining guests or date nights.
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Strawberry Bundt Cake
This moist strawberry bundt cake is an oil-based cake with a reduced strawberry puree in the batter. Those pockets of puree are what make this cake so unique that everyone will want the recipe from you.
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Moist Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Delicious moist carrot cake baked from scratch with crisp walnuts and sweet raisins, layered with rich delicious cream cheese frosting. A simple, easy and effortless one bowl recipe that you will enjoy making over and over again. Delicious on its own as a tea time snack or dressed for any celebration with my luscious cream cheese frosting to create an exotic dessert.
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Blueberry Cream Cake with Crumb Topping
This moist, creamy, delicious and melt in the mouth blueberry cream cake is a simple, easy and effortless recipe. Made with cream cheese inside and crumbs on the top it makes a wonderful tea time cake, snack or even a celebration cake. Use fresh when blueberries are in season or frozen blueberries any time of the year.
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Moist Strawberry Cake
This moist strawberry cake is an oil-based cake, deliciously moist with a tender crumb. Frosted with my popular velvet American buttercream this can be made with fresh or frozen strawberries.
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Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake
Summer brings an abundance of cherries which work as a wonderful treat in desserts such as this baked chocolate cherry cheesecake. A chocolate cheesecake batter enriched with cherry sauce then topped with more fresh cherries.
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Cherry Cheesecake - Baked
A classic cheesecake is made better with a cherry pie filling on top. You'll be surprised at how delicious a cheesecake tastes when it is baked over Graham cracker crust. Watch the video to see how easy this is to make
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Blueberry Cheesecake - Baked
Top your classic cheesecake with fresh or frozen blueberries in this blueberry cheesecake. A rich, creamy, silky smooth cream cheese batter over graham cracker crust and topped with a delicious sweet blueberry filling. Absolute heaven.
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Cherry Champagne Cocktail
This cherry champagne cocktail is the perfect drink to celebrate. Made with cherry liquor, vodka, and champagne this cocktail is perfect for any special occasion whether it's Christmas or Valentine's day. It takes just five minutes to prepare.
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Blueberry Banana Smoothie
This blueberry banana smoothie is a great way to start the day. Healthy, nutritious, and wholesome this is packed with lots of energy. Made with fresh or frozen blueberries this can be made any time of the year.
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Strawberry Vodka Cocktail
A simple strawberry vodka cocktail can give you a great new way to enjoy a favorite drink. It is a drink that combines strawberry puree, vodka, and citrus juice. This is a more alcoholic version of the strawberry daiquiri, a simple, fruity cocktail
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Strawberry Lemonade
Give you classic lemonade a strawberry treat with this strawberry lemonade. It takes just five minutes to make but is the most refreshing summer drink ever.
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Strawberry Banana Smoothie
This deliciously refreshing strawberry banana smoothie is packed with plenty of fruit nutrition and energy to fend off that summer tiredness and dehydration. Perfect to start the day or boost your energy during the day
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Maureen Farmer
I have never seen such variety of recipes it is just wonderful.
Happy Easter Monday to you!