Picnic recipes

It’s hard to beat a picnic on a beautiful sunny day. Warm weather, good food and the great outdoors – what could be better?

Check out our delicious picnic ideas for the ultimate sandwiches, pies and tarts packed with seasonal produce, as well as portable sweet treats, plus more ideas that are perfect for popping in your basket.

Picnic sandwiches

Veggie ‘fish finger’ sandwiches

55 mins

Squash it sandwich

40 mins

Picnic salad recipes

Mexican street salad

15 mins

Broad bean salad

15 mins

Salad wedges with buttermilk dressing

20 mins

Sliced fennel, orange & almond salad

15 mins

Greek-style quinoa salad bomb

35 mins

Simple green salad with lemon dressing

20 mins

watermelon, feta and red onion salad in a bowl

Watermelon & feta salad

10 mins

Wild rice salad

25 mins

Indian chopped salad

15 mins

Jersey Royal potato salad

20 mins

Superfood salad

40 mins

New potatoes & trout

25 mins

Gorgeous Greek salad

15 mins

Greenhouse couscous salad

Blackened chicken

15 mins

Jamie holding a tray with a bowl of broccoli and bacon salad

Broccoli salad

25 mins

Wine-gummy tomatoes

4 hrs 20 mins

Picnic dips and crudités

More dips

Spiced aubergine dip

1 hr 35 mins

Minty yoghurt dip

15 mins

Crunchy chicken pieces with a herby yoghurt dip

45 mins

Broad bean dip

20 mins

Homemade houmous in a bowl with crunchy vegetables and pitta for dipping

Simple houmous

10 mins

Aubergine dip

1 hr 5 mins

Baba ganoush

Cool crudite veggies with a minted pea and yoghurt dip

10 mins

Spicy feta & pepper dip

5 mins

Roasted pineapple & hot red pepper sauce

Picnic drinks

More drinks

Pomegranate, ginger & lime flavoured water

Elderflower lemonade with frozen berries

Raspberry & ginger fizz

5 mins

English garden mocktail

15 mins

Cherry iced tea mocktail

15 mins

Jamie with his young kids and wife, Jools, sat outside in the garden and smiling at the camera

Cooking for kids

Family food

For more family-friendly recipe ideas, Jamie's got you covered

Picnic pies quiches and tarts

Picnic pie

2 hrs 20 mins

Gluten-free quiche

1 hr 30 mins

Quiche

Easiest broccoli quiche

1 hr 20 mins

Speedy quiche traybake

40 mins

Bacon and onion quiche

Rainbow jam tarts

35 mins

Picnic sweet treats

Tangerine cake topped with icing and surrounded by tangerine slices

Tangerine dream cake

Granola bars

40 mins

Summer fruit plate with lime, mint and vanilla syrup

10 mins

Shortcake, curds & marmalade

1 hr

Rainbow jam tarts

35 mins

Rocky road

20 mins

Chai spiced carrot cake

1 hr 20 mins

Gluten-free blondies

45 mins

Air-fryer oat cookies

30 mins

Cherry brownies

20 mins

Vegan ginger cupcakes

35 mins

Carrot cupcakes

40 mins

More picnic snacks

More recipes

Michela’s kale, ricotta & squash omelette

20 mins

Crunchy chicken pieces with a herby yoghurt dip

45 mins

Smoked mackerel pate with griddled toast and cress salad

10 mins

Sweet potato muffins

1 hr

Easy flatbread recipe with garlic and herb butter, served in a pile on a wooden chopping board

Easy flatbreads

35 mins

Mango chutney

1 hr 15 mins

Vegan mushroom rolls

1 hr 20 mins

Michela’s kale, ricotta & squash omelette

20 mins

Wine-gummy tomatoes

4 hrs 20 mins

Savoury seeded crackers

Pretty pickled veg

Six prawn cocktails in jam jars packed with green dressing, pancetta and herbs all in a wooden tray

Jam jar prawn cocktails

The interior and exterior of a scotch egg

Scotch eggs

Wee Scotch eggs

40 mins

Rogan josh Scotch eggs

50 mins

Homemade scotch eggs on a board with cheese and pickles

Proper Scotch eggs

40 mins

Vegetable tartlets

35 mins

Cheese scones

40 mins

Potato scones

30 mins

gluten-free scones with homemade jam and cream

Simple and delicious gluten-free scones

This week I've got two fantastic recipes for gluten-free scones, which are a great alternative to bread if you're looking for a specialist bake.

Jam jar dressings

5 mins

Pork & apple sausage rolls

30 mins

Sausage rolls

1 hr 5 mins

Stilton & sprouting broccoli frittata

40 mins

Cornish cowboy pasties

1 hr 30 mins

Jamie Oliver sitting at a table outside with his family. They are having a celebration meal. A fabric tent decorated with bobbles is shown in the background. Jamie is tucking into his plate of food, while his wife beside him is smiling at someone sitting across her

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