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10 vibrant recipes for the long weekend

Jump into summer with these fresh and vibrant recipes.
Jump into summer with these fresh and vibrant recipes.

With the longer days come a longing to jet off somewhere, eating berries in the garden, fresh fish by the sea or simply making the most of the outdoors.

You can still bring the taste of Summer home by ditching the hearty stews and casseroles for lighter salads, plump berries and fruits and chargrilled steaks or kebabs on the barbeque. While the weather lasts, anyway!

Here are our picks for vibrant, colourful and delicious Summertime recipes.

1. Grill Seeker: Sesame Prawns & Rosemary Scallops

2. Neven Maguire's Lamb Kebabs

3. Harissa Chicken with Rainbow Salad

4. Lime and Coconut Chicken

5. Hazelnut Meringue with Summer Berries

6. Elisa Rossi's red pesto traybake veg salad

7. Strawberry Ice Lollies

8. Barbecue jackfruit

9. Eunice Power's Vietnamese chicken salad

10. Sunshine salads from Catherine Fulvio

11. Operation Transformation's warm roasted pepper & goat's cheese salad

12. Donal Skehan's Super Green Pesto Pasta

13. Sticky Barbeque Spare Ribs

14. Lavender and Honey Panna Cotta

15. Eunice Power's mozzeralla and orange salad