When the weather brightens and days finally stretch a little longer, there is more time to try some delicious seasonal foods and scrumptious desserts. Spring means blooming flowers and also fresh fruits and vegetables from the grocery store, farmer’s market or your own backyard! Here are a variety of meals and desserts to have this spring if you would like to try something new.
Pizza Primavera
This tasty pizza is inspired by the pasta dish of the same name, pasta primavera. Primavera literally means spring in Spanish and so this dish encompasses all the ideas of fresh, bright, light spring seasonal vegetables that are best picked right now and combines them with pizza. You can use a cream sauce or a red sauce, or no sauce at all on your homemade or store bought crust. Layer the crust with sauce (if desired) then add any fresh garden veggies you prefer such as red, yellow, orange, or green peppers (or maybe all of them), mushrooms, asparagus, zucchini or squash, broccoli, onions, etc. The possibilities are endless! On top of your veggies layer up some mozzarella, and parmesan and bake til melty!
Chicken Piccata
Chicken piccata is simply chicken cutlets with a lemon butter sauce over top and bits of parsley sprinkled for the perfect touch. This dish calls for sauteeing your chicken with very little breading/coating so it stays a little lighter and healthier this way. The sauce is also nice and springy due to the brightness of the tangy lemon juice and only includes a little bit of butter and can be made with chicken broth instead of cream to keep it on the lighter side if those spring days are starting to get hot. You don’t want to be weighed down by heavy dishes this time of year, and this one has the perfect balance.
Caesar Salad
A refreshing light, simple salad would be enjoyable this season, but could also be good any time.
Angel Food Cake
Take advantage of all the fresh berries for your desserts! Angel food cake is a sweet fluffy sponge cake that feels like you’re eating a cloud. It gets its light texture from the egg whites, also having no butter or egg yolks.
Blueberry Muffins
This is a delicious muffin that is great for picnics during the sunny weather. The fresh berries will burst with flavor!
Strawberry Short Cake
Another classic spring dessert that is a perfect cake for any event in this season, The strawberries go well with the vanilla cake flavor and are truly the fruit of the season!
Carrot Cake
This is a classic well-known dessert that is inspired by bunny rabbits and prolific gardens and is enjoyable to have in the spring.
