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Fresh and Easy Summer Recipes

Keep cooking light and flexible on warm days. Find crisp salads, barbecue favourites, cold soups, quick pasta dishes and fruit-filled desserts for picnics, garden tables and everyday meals.

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Thinly sliced zucchini carpaccio with lemon, parmesan and herbs
20 min Summer

Zucchini carpaccio with lemon

The courgettes are thinly sliced and marinated with lemon, olive oil, capers, parmesan, pine nuts and mint. Marinate the courgette slices only briefly and salt on the plate to make them flexible but not watery.

Grilled peaches with burrata, rucola, basil and roasted pistachios
23 min Summer

Grilled peaches with burrata

Halved peaches are briefly grilled on the cut surface and warmly prepared with burrata, rucola, pistachios, basil and lemon honey dressing. Use ripe but firm peaches and add burrata on the plate to keep fruit and cheese texture.

Lemon Orzo with spinach and feta as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
30 min Summer

Lemon Orzo with spinach and feta

Orzo is cooked with onion in vegetable broth and then finished creamy with spinach, feta, lemon and herbs. Stir frequently and dose fluid as needed because Orzo gives off starch; add spinach and feta only at the end.

Grill potato salad with rucola as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
45 min Summer

Grilled potato salad with arugula

Boiled potatoes are browned on the grill and mixed lukewarmly with mustard-apple vinegar dressing, tomatoes, onion, rucola and seeds. Let potatoes steam completely before they come on the grill; lift Rucola first under the lukewarm mixture.

Berries Joghurt Parfait as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
3 hr 20 min Summer

Berries and yoghurt parfait

Berries-Joghurt-Parfait is a cold summer dessert with berries, Greek yoghurt, honey, cream and granola. It is layered and well chilled before serving.

Melon-gurk gazpacho as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
1 hr 15 min Summer

Melon and cucumber gazpacho

Melon-Gurken-Gazpacho is a cold summer soup made of honey melon, cucumber, yoghurt, lime, mint and olive oil. It is finely pureed and served well chilled.

Mango-Avocado salad with lime as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
15 min Summer

Mango avocado salad with lime

Mango avocado salad with lime is a fruity summer salad without stove. Mature mango, creamy avocado, cucumber, red onion, mint and lime dressing are freshly mixed.

Summer ratatouille from the oven as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light kitchen
1 hr 5 min Summer

Summer ratatouille from the oven

Eggplants, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes are roasted with garlic, olive oil and herbs in the oven. Cut the vegetables into similarly large pieces and spread on a large sheet so that it browns instead of steaming in its own juice.

Shrimp skewers with lime as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
48 min Summer

Shrimp skewers with lime

Shrimps are marinated briefly with lime, garlic, chilli and olive oil, put on skewers and grilled very hot. A few minutes of heat is enough: as soon as the shrimps are pink and just opaque, they must be grilled.

Panzanella with Ciabatta as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecues and light cuisine
28 min Summer

Panzanella with Ciabatta

Roasted ciabatta cubes briefly pass with tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, basil and red wine vinegar. The bread is intended to take in dressing, but still retain edges; therefore mix only shortly before serving.

Shakshuka with summer vegetables as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
40 min Summer

Shakshuka with summer vegetables

Onion, paprika and zucchini are sautéed with cumin, boiled with tomatoes and then directly set in the sauce. Strongly reduce the tomato sauce in front of the eggs and cook the egg white while the egg yolks remain creamy.

Berries crumble from the tin as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
50 min Summer

Sheet-pan berry crumble

Mixed berries are distributed with vanilla and lemon on the sheet and baked under almond-hafer-streaks. Do not thaw frozen berries and knead the crumble topping only briefly so that the sheet does not become watery and the blanket crunchy.

Halloumi burger with grilled vegetables as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
32 min Summer

Helloumi burger with grilled vegetables

Zucchini and paprika are grilled, Halloumi gets strong barbecue strips and everything is layered with tomato and lemon yoghurt in the bun. Halloumi only grill shortly before assembly, because it becomes fast when cooling down.

Tuna beans salad as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
15 min Summer

Tuna-bean salad

Dried tuna and white beans are mixed with tomatoes, red onion, parsley and lemon-olive oil dressing. Rinse beans thoroughly and add tomatoes at the end so that the salad does not become watery.

Pasta with cherry tomatoes and burrata as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
30 min Summer

Pasta with cherry tomatoes and burrata

Cherry tomatoes are broken with garlic in olive oil, then mixed with bite-resistant pasta, pasta water and burrata. Do not cook Burrata, but open on the hot pasta; so the kernel remains creamy.

Corn cob with herb butter as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light kitchen
25 min Summer

Corn on the cob with herb butter

Corn cobs are grilled all around and coated hot with lime-herb butter, peppers and chilli. Apply the butter only after grilling, so that they do not drip into the gluten and the herbs remain fresh.

Peach caprese with basil as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
15 min Summer

Peach caprese with basil

Peach splits are briefly grilled and served with mozzarella, tomatoes, basil and a balsamic honey dressing. Mature but firm peaches retain their shape on the grill; add mozzarella and basil only on the plate.

Couscous bowl with grilled vegetables as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
35 min Summer

Couscous Bowl with grilled vegetables

Couscous boils in vegetable broth and is served with grilled zucchini, paprika, chickpeas and lemon tahini sauce. Couscous after the swell loosen with the fork and add vegetables and sauce only after that portion.

Grilled salmon with cucumber salad as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
32 min Summer

Grilled salmon with cucumber salad

Salmon fillets are oiled and grilled with lemon, and a fresh cucumber salad with yoghurt, dill and little honey is created. Grill the salmon first on the skin side and turn only once; salt the cucumber salad just before eating.

Zucchini fritters with yoghurt dip as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
35 min Summer

Zucchini fritters with yogurt dip

grated zucchini is salted and thoroughly squeezed dry, then fried with egg, feta, flour and dill to crispy fritters. The drier the zucchini, the better keep the fritters and the less flour is needed.

Grilled vegetables with herb quark as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light kitchen
38 min Summer

Grilled vegetables with herb quark

Zucchini, paprika, aubergine and mushrooms are oiled, portionally grilled and served with a chives quark. Do not cut vegetables too thin and do not overfill the grill, so that real roasted aromas are produced instead of leaking liquid.

Grilled chicken skewers with lemon as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
1 hr 2 min Summer

Grilled chicken skewers with lemon

Chicken pieces are marinated with lemon, garlic, paprika and olive oil, sprinkled and grilled all around in direct heat. Cook equally large pieces of meat at the same time; the marinade must not hang drip-wet on the meat before grilling.

Mediterranean noodle salad as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
30 min Summer

Mediterranean pasta salad

Short pasta is cooked with a bite and mixed lukewarmly with tomatoes, olives, mozzarella and balsamic dressing. Do not deter the pasta cold; lukewarmly take on the dressing, Rucola and basil are added only before serving.

Watermelon-Feta salad as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
15 min Summer

Watermelon feta salad

Watermelon and cucumber are mixed with feta, mint and lime vinaigrette and sprinkled with roasted pine nuts. Let the melon and cucumber drain well and salt only shortly before serving, otherwise too much liquid accumulates.

Cold cucumber soup with dill as a fresh summer recipe for warm days, barbecue evenings and light cuisine
1 hr Summer

Cold cucumber soup with dill

Cold cucumber soup with dill is a light summer soup without stove. Cucumber, yoghurt, dill, lemon and olive oil are finely pureed and served well chilled.