• Beautiful colours aside, roast beetroot gratin is a wonderfully flavourful dish to serve as a side or vegetarian main. In case you’ve never come across this word before, ‘gratin’ simply refers to a technique in which something is crusted brown with breadcrumbs or cheese. Enjoy this earthy vegetable in its soft, cooked, creamy glory.

    Print Recipe Pickled green beans and broccoli Serves: 4 – 6 Cooking Time: 15 mins Ingredients 300g green beans, trimmed 200g tender-stem broccoli, trimmed 15ml (1 tbsp) olive oil 1 shallot, finely chopped 15ml (1 tbsp) yellow mustard seeds 45ml (3 tbsp) red wine vinegar 30ml (2 tbsp) castor sugar Instructions 1 Blanch the green