The UN General Assembly designated 2021 the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV). In celebration of all the amazing vegetables around the world, The World Vegetable Center has shared a selection of healthy and delicious recipes.
Explore the recipes and stories behind these dishes below.
This collection of recipes provides meal ideas for each month during the year, with recipes such as capsicum koftas, onion cucumber tomato raita, bottle gourd in milk gravy, and many more.
These recipes from Cameroon include dishes like sauteed amaranth leaves, kwem (cassava leaves with African eggplant), assok bitetam (okra cake), jute mallow with pumpkin seeds and many more.
These recipes use traditional foods from Burkina Faso, including amaranth, okra, oseille and African eggplant. All recipes are in French.
Explore recipes such as fresh salad with soybeans, vegetable borsch, girasol dumplings, shurpa soup with yardlong beans, mashkichiri with soy and mung beans, dimlama with Chinese cabbage leaves and many more. All recipes are available in English, Tatar and Russian.
These mung bean recipes incorporate a variety of vegetables, with dishes such as dhal koottu with spinach, tomato adai, sprouted mung bean salad and more.
This two pager has a recipe for guava, pineapple bitter gourd juice and a bitter gourd curry. Recipes are available in English, Hindi, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu and Thai on World Vegetable Center's website.
These recipes from the Northern Region of Ghana include dishes such as yam pottage, okra fish soup and amaranth stew, as well as accompaniments (like banku), drinks (like tamarind) and snacks (like koose).
Included in this publication you will find recipes for dishes such as amaranth with dried carrots, African eggplant with okra and peanut butter, tomato soup, jute mallow with coconut milk and many more, plus healthy vegetable snacks.
Power on Your Plate: World Vegetable Summit
Power on Your Plate participants called for action: for increased investment, regional R&D programs, and policies to promote traditional vegetables at national and regional levels and fully integrate traditional vegetables into Africa’s food systems. Read the ideas and recommendations generated during discussion to pull demand, push supply, and provide enabling policy and governance.
Visit the World Vegetable Center's YouTube channel to view the presentations from Power on Your Plate: All-Africa Summit on Diversifying Food Systems with African Traditional Vegetables to Increase Health, Nutrition and Wealth.
This selection of videos are specifically focused on the health and nutrition of traditional African vegetables, with presentations covering year-round affordability, promoting increased consumption, evolving food preferences, food preparation, distribution patterns and culturally appropriate interventions.
Learn more about the All-Africa Summit on Diversifying Food Systems with African Traditional Vegetables to Increase Health, Nutrition and Wealth, including a full programme and list of speakers.
Looking for more recipes and vegetable resources?
Visit the World Vegetable Center's Holistic Access to Research on Vegetables, Economies, Societies and Technology database: HARVEST.
