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Allotment update and chunky broad bean dip

August 3, 2011 by Katie Bryson

Firstly an apology for the lack of blog posts in the last week or so – I was away in the wilds of Northumberland without an internet connection, and then stupidly left my laptop behind. I got it back last night with the help of Facebook and some very lovely friends.

Anyway, I’m back!

What a month it’s been at the lotters – the growth has been astounding, the weeds have gone MENTAL and it’s been a battle to keep on top of it.

trug of vegetables from the allotment

Every time I go up there I come back laden with produce. Potatoes, courgettes, tomatoes, spring onions, french beans and broad beans… it’s just a brilliant time! My bill at the supermarket has gone right down as we’re pretty self sufficient on the veg front 🙂

To celebrate the first picking of broad beans I made a chunky dip – this is a fab little recipe for something a bit different from hummus.

Chunky broad bean dip

I blanched the beans for a couple of minutes, cooled them off under the cold tap and then popped them out of their cases.

I then blitzed them in my mini chopper with fresh mint, a clove of garlic and a good splurge of olive oil and scattering of sea salt.

Delicious spread on hot buttered toast for a light lunch or as a dip with carrot and celery sticks. I particularly loved the vivid green colour of it.

broad bean dip

Next on my list are the French Beans of which we are collecting carrier bags full! I shall be making my mum’s green bean chutney which i’m pretty excited about…

 

 

 

Filed Under: Allotment, Lunch Recipes, Party, Vegetarian Tagged With: Allotment, broad beans, dip, home grown veg

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Comments

  1. Becky, English Mum says

    August 3, 2011 at 10:33 am

    Ooh that dip looks amazing – and what a gorgeous colour.. I want an allotment!

    • Katie Bryson says

      August 3, 2011 at 5:23 pm

      So greeeeen – my fave colour! Allotments are def the way forward. Do they have them near you?

  2. Aveen says

    August 3, 2011 at 10:42 am

    Yummy! I’m going to make this later, our broad beans have gone absolutely mental.

    For various reasons we didn’t manage to get to the allotment for over a week. Hubby went yesterday and said the courgettes are all MASSIVE and wants to enter them in the village show!

    • Katie Bryson says

      August 3, 2011 at 5:25 pm

      Lol! Courgettes are crazy – we were away for a week too and had the same experience – mahooooooosive!!!!! We need to find a volunteer to tend the lotters when we go to France or there may be an invasion!!!!!!

  3. Rosemary Hamilton says

    August 4, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    What a lovely trug full of produce, I’m looking forward to your visit this weekend!The broad bean dip is a novel way to use broad beans.

    • Katie Bryson says

      August 5, 2011 at 10:22 am

      i’ll get down the looters today to do a picking before we come 🙂

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