Wild Food Recipes

It’s one thing finding and identifying your wild ingredients and then a completely different thing actually cooking up dinner with them. We all start by putting a tiny amount of nettles in the pan to eat as a side with dinner, after a little while you’ll have your own recipes where you substitute all the ingredients for wild equivalents.

To help out on your journey we’ve pulled together some of our favourite wild food recipes for you to view at your pleasure.

These recipes aren’t gospel in any way so please be playful with them and make them your own.

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We had our first Forage & Feast foraged picnic of the year at Hackney Marshes recently, so I thought I’d share our picnic menu with you and some of the recipes. We used a mixture of seasonally foraged and stored ingredients for the menu, but everything was home-made and freshly…

A Spring Foraged Picnic

Acorn Flour Banana Bread This is a really nice way to get some use out of the very common Acorn and use up some of those bananas that you had forgotten all about. With this Banana bread made with acorn flour! Ingredients 1 cup of leached acorn flour 2 cups…

Acorn Banana Bread

To be honest I’ve always avoided making Acorn flour as it really sounds like a very long laborious task that results in a nutty flavoured flour. That’s until I found out you could do it all in one day – probably an hour if you ran to your local oak…

Acorn Flour Recipe

BBQ Wild Garlic & Hogweed with Chicken, grilled veg and wild chervil We’re now pulling together a range of wild ingredients to build fantastic dishes. This is a brilliant way to celebrate a hot spring utilising wild garlic in multiple forms. Cooking quickly over open flames is often the best…

BBQ Wild Garlic & Hogweed with Chicken, grilled veg and wild chervil

This Bilberry and apple fruit leather Recipe is the perfect way to preserve bilberries for use later in the year. It can be reheated with a little water to turn back to a jam or pie filling or can be used as is as a fruit leather or jerky which…

Bilberry and apple fruit leather Recipe

This Bilberry Jam Recipe is a great way to use up a seasonal special glut of bilberries, they’re only in season for a couple of weeks and this is the best way I’ve found of preserving them, without destroying our freezer, for use throughout the rest of the year. I can…

Bilberry Jam Recipe

I first began making this bilberry pie recipe for my Grandma as it’s one of her favourite foods and have come to believe that the recipe below is the best for the pie as it makes your bilberries go quite far but also holds on to the fantastic flavours the…

Bilberry Pie Recipe

Birch Sap Syrup How to Make Birch Sap Syrup Birch Sap Syrup Making Birch sap syrup is one of the first things I do with wild food every year – it tells me we’re about to shoot straight in to the more serious collection of wild foods and is, at…

Birch Sap Syrup

Birch Sap Toffee Pudding Birch Sap Syrup Recipe Birch Sap Syrup Sticky Pudding This soft sticky pudding with textured sultanas and a birch syrup flavoured custard topping is my absolute favourite dessert. The flavours are deep, the pudding soft and sauce soaks through the whole lot leaving us with a…

Birch Sap Toffee Pudding

This Birch Syrup & Vegan Pancake Recipe is a really simple, American style pancake recipe, that’s also vegan! Great on their own for breakfast drizzled in lashings of birch sap syrup. Click here for our Silver Birch Foraging Guide Ingredients for our Birch Syrup & Vegan Pancake Recipe: 1 ripe…

Birch Syrup & Vegan Pancake Recipe