Our best broad bean recipes

Celebrate summer with this stunning, moreish pasta dish.

Fresh, crispy, light and nutty – this bean, apple and cashew spread open sandwich is a great way of shaking things up for lunch. And it’s suitable for diabetics, too.

If you’re not keen on potatoes, try using kumara instead for this delicious potato salad recipe with broad beans, NZ Pork bacon and feta

This wonderfully vibrant broad bean, baby pea and feta salad recipe is the perfect side dish for any summer meal! Throw it together in just 15 minutes and enjoy!

You will need to buy about 1.7kg fresh broad beans in the pod to yield 3 cups, or you can use frozen broad beans. You can cook baby potatoes with the chicken. If you prefer, you can use a 1.5kg whole chicken chopped into pieces. The low-fat dieting era popularised chicken fillets, because the dark […]

Healthy and delicious – this nourishing broad bean and ricotta orecchiette is perfect for dinner with the family any night of the week!

Full of flavour, this pork sausage pizza is straight out of Al Volo pizzeria’s wood fired oven. Photography by Todd Eyre.

Toss a little shredded parmesan through pasta with asparagus and peas. Note

A creamy risotto that will melt in your mouth.

Try this exquisite salad as a light lunch or as a side to your next dinner.

A truly Italian pasta bake of chicken and broad bean rigatoni.