14 Easy Fairtrade Recipes for Fairtrade Fortnight

All the recipes at The Real Meal Deal use Fairtrade ingredients as it's such an important part of Eating Sustainably. To help celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight, I've pulled together 14 of the most popular Recipes. There are meat, fish, vegetarian, and vegan as well as some tasty fairtrade snacks. With many high-quality fairtrade ingredients now available, it's easy to incorporate fairtrade into most meals. If you're looking for more inspiration, check out my Recipe Page.

What is Fairtrade?

Fairtrade is an international organization that promotes decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. Fairtrade Fortnight, highlights the growing challenges that climate change brings to farmers and workers. Look out for the blue and green logo when you shop.

1. Fairtrade Keralan Fish Curry

Keralan Fish Curry is a creamy South Indian fish curry with coconut milk. Using a few common spices and poaching the fish in a creamy tomato sauce, this easy recipe takes just 30 minutes.

A delicious Curry using fairtrade ground nut oil, spices, curry powder and coconut milk

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2. Fairtrade Korma Curry

Ready in just 30 minutes, this lighter version of a Chicken Korma is mild but still full of flavour.

A light and tasty chicken curry made with fairtrade curry paste, ground almonds, sultanas, mango chutney and black pepper and served with fairtrade rice

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3. Fairtrade Vegetarian Fajitas with Black Beans

Roast your vegetables in a simple homemade tex-mex spice mix, gather some toppings and you're good to go. Ready in 30 minutes.

Vegetarian or Vegan Fajitas made with Fairtrade black beans, paprika, cumin, chilli powder and olive oil.

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4. Fairtrade Banana and Cinnamon Muffins

These muffins are really tasty and also a great way to ensure your fairtrade bananas never go to waste!

Ready in just 30 minutes, these muffins are the perfect sweet treat and a great way to get cooking with some high quality Fairtrade ingredients including cinnamon, bananas and sugar.

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5. Fairtrade Tea Loaf

The perfect guilt free Fairtrade snack, this tea loaf is low on sugar and fat free!

The easiest cake you'll ever make and perfect for snacks or lunchboxes. Made with Fairtrade sugar, tea and dried mixed fruit.

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6. Quorn Chilli with Fairtrade Spices

An easy quorn chilli that's big on flavor and packed full of fairtrade spices.

Everyone needs a Simple Chilli recipe and this Quorn Vegetarian Chilli is my tried and tested favourite. It's big on flavour but reasonably mild and a delicious one-pot dish the whole family can tuck into. Plus it's ready in just 30 minutes!

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7. Easy Granola Flapjacks

A simple granola flapjack recipe perfect for snacks or as a Breakfast bar.

An easy flapjack recipe with just 5 ingredients, all available as Fairtrade

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8. Fairtrade Fish Stew

A tasty fish stew ready in just 20 minutes. Serve with Fairtrade couscous!

A light and tasty fish stew in a tomato sauce made with fairtrade chickpeas, lemons and paprika and served with fairtrade couscous.

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9. Fairtrade Chicken Mince Tagine

A simple version of a North African Tagine, using fairtrade spices, dried apricots and chickpeas.

A quick slightly spicy Chicken recipe with Fairtrade spices, dried apricots and chickpeas. Serve with a Fairtrade couscous!

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10. Fairtrade Vegetarian Goulash

Another great storecupboard staple that's gluten and dairy free and ready in under 30 minutes.

A Vegetarian Goulash is a thick spicy stew flavoured with Fairtrade smoked paprika and using fairtrade mixed beans, sugar and black pepper. It's hearty, filling and great comfort food.

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11. Fairtade Smoked Mackerel Salad with Asian Noodles

A Smoked Mackerel Salad with Asian Noodles has so much going for it. It's really easy to make and is ready in under 10 minutes. You can enjoy it as a main, hot or cold or as a lunch.

An easy salad made with Fairtrade ground nut oil, noodles and limes.

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12. Fairtrade Aubergine and Chickpea Curry

An Aubergine and Chickpea Curry is a delicious healthy vegan curry and ready in under 30 minutes. It's also dairy and gluten-free, is very economical and super easy to cook.

An easy curry with lots of Fairtrade spices.

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13. Fairtrade Curry with Chickpeas and Lentils

Tasty, healthy and a great store-cupboard staple, this vegan chickpea curry is the perfect standby.

A delicious vegan curry made with Fairtrade curry paste, chickpeas, red lentils, coconut milk and fresh lemons. Serve with Fairtrade rice!

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14. Fairtrade Prawn Noodles Stir Fry with Vegetables

Prawn Noodles Stir-Fry with vegetables is a quick, easy and healthy dish and ready in just 20 minutes. Stir Fry's are a great opportunity to cook with lots of different fresh vegetables. They are also great for using up any leftovers.

A super quick recipe using fairtrade noodles, sesame oil, soy sauce, honey and cashew nuts.

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Choosing Fairtrade products can make a real different in the lives of the farmers who produce our food, not just during Fairtrade fortnight but throughout the year. For more information on Fairtrade, visit the website at www.fairtrade.org.uk and Fairtrade International.

All my recipes list Fairtrade ingredients. For more inspiration, visit my recipe page.