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Welcome to Celtnet's Wild Food Recipes Page — Here all the recipes incorporating or featuring wild foods on this site are brought together. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the wild fod recipes added to this site. Just so you know, I am defining 'wild foods' as any ingredient that can be found or foraged in the wild. Obviously almost all Ancient Recipes fall into this category... But you will also find modern and fusion recipes that have a wild-sourced ingredient in them; whether that be a wild herb, a wild fruit, a mushroom, a seaweed or wild-caught meat. I hope that these pages will encourage you to look at your food and the world around you in a different way. Just have a look at those various hedgerow 'weeds' that just might make an unusual addition to your plate and provide a new and different taste for your palate.
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Below you will find several hundred recipes incorporating wild foods of one kind or another. These wild food based dishes cover all historical periods (from ancient times to the present day) and also include some of the latest Fusion foods. So you will find Indian, Asian and African inspired dishes that use European wild foods as a main ingredient. I hope these recipes will encourage you to explore the world about you and to make more use of the edible wild foods that are right on your doorstep. To help you in this, why not have a look at this site's Guide to Wild Foods.
Alphabetical list of wild recipes follows (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 1189 recipes in total:
Chillies are a South American fruit, unknown to the rest of the world before 1492. Learn about this amazing spice and find two rather unusual chilli-based recipes for a jam and a sorbet
Prue Leiths' 'Leiths Cookery Bible' is one of those books that you never new you couldn't do without. It is the one cookery book that you need on your bookshelf (not that it will stay there very long). To find out why this book is so indispensible why not read the review now?
'Thai Food' by David Thompson is one of those rare 'must have' culinary books that presents the culture and history of Thailan from a food perspective. This well-written book presents over 300 recipes covering all aspects of Thai cuisine and represents the most comprehensive collection and examination of Thai Food printed in the English Language.
Beans are a classic storage food and have been a staple of the human diet for millennia. In recent decades, however, we have forgotten just how useful and versatile beans are. Here is a brief description of the importance of beans, with two classic bean recipes for you to try.
Barbecuing, or cooking meat directly above a flame, is a very traditional cooking method and probably represents humanity's oldest cooking technique. There is nothing like a summer outdoor barbecue and here you will find recipes for a classic kebab and sticky ribs both designed to make the most out of barbecuing.
Liberia is a West African country formed by freed slaves. It is one of only two African countries never to have come under European rule. Liberia is also one of the few African countries with a tradition of baking. Sitting alongside these are ingredients sourced directly from the rainforest.
Learn a little about the origins of British biscuits and American cookies and how these classic baked goods differ from one another. Also presented is a recipe for a classic American chocolate chip cookie and a traditional British tea-time biscuit.
Scottish cookery swings from the essential spartan nature of Highland Cookery, where the most is made of scant ingredients, to the richness of the recipes of the East Coast ports and border towns. Despite its reputation as something of a joke (which is, at least partially, deserved) Scottish cookery is alive and vibrant and represents a fusion of good ingredients, old recipes and modern techniques. Here, recipes are provided for a traditional highland meal and this is contrasted with a traditional rich cake.
Lamb is one of the sweetest an most versatile of the red meats. Typically it is very tender and lends itself to a whole range of cooking methods. Here you are presented with two classic lamb-based recipes.
Rather than being a British or English invention, Chutneys originated in India and were re-worked during the 18th century as a means of preserving autumn fruit and vegetables. Here you get a recipe for a classic Indian chatni and a British chutney so you can see how one evolved into the other.
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