Feel Good Summer Recipes

A big sharing board with colourful dips, olives radishes, flatbreads and breadsticks on the side

Gather your friends, soak up the long evenings and let these easy summer dishes do the hard work. Whether you're hosting at home or contributing to a spread, these recipes are simple to make, easy to share and guaranteed to go down well. Start with a board piled high with vibrant dips, then serve a golden vegetarian spiral pie alongside a hearty chargrilled chicken noodle salad. Round things off with a tropical dessert that's guaranteed to have everyone going back for seconds.

Discover more recipes for entertaining this season, including these mix-and-match meze sharing plates inspired by Mediterranean flavours or Annie Mae Herring's Provençal entertaining menu inspired by the taste of Southern France.

Everyone loves a dip and this sharing board mixes up creamy goat’s cheese with tangy beetroot and a spicy olive oil for the ultimate mix-and-match combo. Serve with lots of colourful fruit and vegetables and buttery, herby flatbreads.

Honey roast halloumi and summer veg spiral pie

This giant filo pie is filled with honey and harissa-spiked veg and halloumi, and served with a creamy tahini, lemon and yogurt dip. Rolling the filling into a sausage then baking in a spiral not only looks impressive but means you get a perfect ratio of filling to crunchy filo. Make sure the filo is brushed generously with butter and not packed too tightly to stop it from splitting when forming the spiral. If it does split, just patch it up with a little more buttered filo.

A large spiral pie with one slice taken out of it, on a table outside

Chargrilled bang bang chicken noodle salad

A fresh, vibrant salad of griddled chicken, slippery noodles with crunchy, zingy veg and a rich ginger peanut sauce. If you are transporting it, keep the dressing in a separate tub and toss together at the table. Serve with extra chilli crisp oil so people can control their own heat level.

A large, colourful bang bang salad set at the centre of a table

Toasted coconut and mango tres leches cake

Subbing in double cream for butter is an easy method which gives a light but firm sponge. In this Mexican-inspired recipe, sweetened milks are spooned over after baking for extra moisture, then topped with a pillowy coconut cream, toasted coconut flakes and mango for sunshine on a plate.