Organic Al Fresco Eating

Summer time is all about freedom – fresh foods, outdoor eating and entertaining. Barbecues, picnics, parties and feasts with family and friends in the sunshine. Summer food is all about simplicity: quick, easy cooking and relaxed eating.

It’s so easy to prepare delicious outdoor food with a little help from Geo Organics - spruce up summer meals in minutes. All these foods are organic, vegan, gluten free, dairy free, non-GM and approved by the Soil Association.

BBQs
Brighten barbecue dishes with the Mexican BBQ Sauce. This luxuriously rich sauce can be used as a marinade for practically any meat or with tofu, delivering warmth that is guaranteed to spice up mealtimes. It is also great as a dip, with crudités or warm pitta bread fingers. Wake up chopped potatoes by tossing them in this sauce before oven-baking or blasting on the barbecue.

Add a dollop of Veggie Relish (200g; £1.79) to burgers, sausages, and kebabs – it’s equally good with vegetarian and meat varieties. It’s also a tasty dip for crudités – on its own or with a spoonful of yogurt stirred in.

Summer Sandwiches and Ploughman’s
Summer salads and traditional ploughman’s lunches will enjoy the tang of Geo Organics’ Piccalilli (280g; £2.19). Made to a timeless recipe, it deliciously sets off cheese, crudités and salad leaves. And you can cheer up cheese sandwiches and platters with a spoonful of any of these three chutneys (300g; £1.99) that are packed with organic fruit and vegetables. Choose from Spicy Tomato and Sultana Chutney, Tomato and Apple Chutney and Apple Apricot and Ginger Chutney. If you’re more traditional, then you can’t go wrong with the Geo Organics Sweet Pickle with its fresh tomatoes, apples and plump sultanas in a richly malted base with warming spices.

Sprinkling of Salt
Bring out the flavours of your summer food with a sprinkling of pure white salt crystals. Just as nature intended, these have a natural mineral content and ideal balance of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium. The Atlantic Sea Salt has a flavour four times stronger than traditional table salt so you need far less. The crystals are taken from the top of the salt ponds in the Algarve and are whitened by the sun – not bleaching agents. Choose from crystals in the box (200g; £1.09) or the finer, ground salt in the shaker (190g; 99p) – it takes a little shake to free the salt as Geo Organics doesn’t add anti-caking agents to its ground salt.

These are just a few highlights of the Geo Organics range that particularly suit summer foods. See the whole range at Venturefoods.com.

The Geo Organics range is produced by British family business Venture Foods, a specialist company that sources and distributes premium organic packaged grocery foods.

Its portfolio of over 65 products includes:
• Curry Pastes (Indian and Thai)
• Traditional Chutneys and Pickles
• Indian Pickles
• Organically-Approved Atlantic Sea Salt
• Cooking Sauces: Pasta, Mexican and Chinese

Also from Venture Foods: Organica and Vegan Organica Swiss Chocolate.

All products are certified organic and are either vegetarian or vegan. Many carry the Fairtrade or Ethical Ingredients badge.