Daltons Recipes

Wow your friends and family with our regularly updated collection of recipes. See how many of the ingredients you can grow yourself.

Preserved Lemons Recipe
Preserved lemons are incredibly quick and easy to make at home and far more affordable than store bought. They add a unique, tangy, and salty flavor to a variety of dishes. Use them in your cooking to elevate your dishes - try them in soups, salads, stews, pasta, dressings and sauces, and more!
Dried Citrus Slices Recipe
Dried citrus is far more economical to make at home and a great way to preserve your citrus at peak ripeness. Use to spruce up your cocktails and drinks, decorations, garnishes for cakes and desserts, gift wrapping - the options are endless!
Beef Cheek Red Curry
A perfect mid-winter warmer, that you will want to keep cooking time and time again.
Choc Chip Cookies
Whip these chewy choc chip cookies up with the kids in the school holidays.
Pot Roast Chicken
A perfect Sunday roast chicken that the whole family will love.
Immune Boosting Chicken Soup
Keep colds and the flu at bay with this delicious, nutritious soup that’s chock full of immune-boosting ingredients.
Feijoa Crumble Slice
Autumn in New Zealand means feijoa season! This slice is perfect paired with a cup of tea or coffee on a cool autumn day.
Basil Pesto
Turn your basil into tasty pesto. Delicious addition to sandwiches, or simply toss through cooked pasta for a quick and easy autumn dinner the whole family will enjoy.

Did you know you can freeze pesto? Simply add a light layer of oil on top of the pesto and seal it tight in a container before popping it into the freezer. When it comes time to use it, defrost as normal and then stir olive oil through.
Easter Cupcakes
A fun and delicious Easter treat to whip up with the kids in the kitchen.
Zucchini Risotto
As the cool autumn weather starts to make an appearance around the country, warm up with this tasty risotto.
Chilli Jam
The tastiest way to use up all those chillies in the garden!
Potato Focaccia
Quick, crispy, fluffy, and perfect for upcoming summer BBQs. This is an easy recipe that is sure to impress!
Tomato Burrata Salad
Juicy tomatoes with creamy burrata cheese are a match made in heaven. This salad comes together in five minutes and is the perfect colourful salad alongside our potato focaccia for your summer BBQs. If you can't find any burrata at your local supermarket, swap it with fresh mozzarella instead.
Chargrilled Veggie, Mozzarella, and Cranberry Salad Recipe
This fresh, green, and utterly tasty salad pairs perfectly with our Roast Turkey with Cashew Stuffing for the Christmas spread!
Georgia's Chicken & Leek Pie
Whip up this mouthwatering Chicken and Leek Pie at home—soon to become a family favourite!
Aunty Dulcie’s Lemon Tea Cake
This delicious lemon tea cake is easy to make and perfect with a cup of tea or coffee. 
Creamy Mushroom Soup with Crunchy Ciabatta Crostini
Try this tasty & hearty soup for winter!
Dee’s Delicious Marmalade
Baked Citrus Cheesecake
Catherine’s Rocket, Lemon, Chilli and Parmesan Pasta
Amy's Apple Cake Recipe
Use your apple harvest to make this delicious apple cake the whole family will enjoy.
Family Favourite Vegetarian Lasagne
A delicious lasagne family recipe for you to cook for your own family.
Christmas Ham with Rum and Pineapple
Roasted Butternut with Camembert and Chicken
Persimmon Jam Recipe
Enjoy the recipe for persimmon jam from the Daltons Plantation kitchen
Catherine's Feijoa Camp Cake
This family recipe, ‘Catherine’s Camp Cake' is a tasty way to use up feijoas as they ripen.
Diane's Thai Pumpkin Soup
Diane from our Daltons team has shared her tasty Thai Pumpkin Soup. It is a family favourite that her boys love and is perfect on a cold winters day.
Lisa’s Easy Peasy Corn & Avocado Salad
Lisa from our Daltons Team shares her super easy Corn and Avocado Salad.
Kate’s Famous Pavlova
Regardless of the ongoing battle with the Aussies as to who owns the Pav, it has, and always will be, a kiwi favourite. This is very old recipe never fails to please – and is probably one of the easiest pavlovas to make!
Broccoli Salad
Orzo and Beetroot Salad
Brony’s Orange Muffins Recipe
Easy Spinach Roulade
Roulades are inexpensive, quick, simple to make. Fill with your favourite ingredients like cream cheese or sour cream and cooked chopped mushrooms, crispy bacon or smoked salmon.
Courgette, Bacon and Pine Nut Pasta
Use up the last of the season’s courgette’s in this delicious pasta dish.
Homemade Truffles
Here’s a delicious treat to whip up as a gift for mum on Mother’s Day!
Ultimate Carrot Cake
I highly recommend trying this delightful carrot cake recipe today. Its moist and fluffy texture, paired with the rich flavour of carrots and warm spices, will surely be a treat for your taste buds.
Corn with Chilli Herb Butter
Michelle’s Super Quick Pickled Radish
Ellie’s Delicious Oats for Winter Wellness
Cheese and Parsley Scones
Delicious cheese and parsley scones. Enjoy warm with lashings of butter!
Broccoli Pancetta Pasta
Looking for delicious ways to cook the last of your broccoli harvest? Try our quick and easy Broccoli Pancetta Pasta, which comes together in 20 minutes and is something the whole family will enjoy!
Roast Turkey with Cashew Stuffing Recipe
Looking for a showstopping centrepiece for the Christmas dinner table? Try out our traditional Christmas turkey recipe.