Seasonal fruits and vegetables to cook with in November

Seasonal fruits and vegetables to cook with in November

Eating seasonal, cooking for the climate

This page shows you the fruits and vegetables to cook with in November. Find a full overview of seasonal fruits and vegetables and get inspired to cook a seasonal recipe. We will also explain the climate impact of eating seasonally.

At the end of fall, only very few vegetables are coming into season. This month it’s only lamb’s lettuce. Luckily we’ve got ways to store some of the earlier harvested vegetables and it’s the prime time of winter vegetables like beetroot, pumpkin and celeriac.

Searching for a seasonal calendar with November’s best produce?

Our seasonal calendar shows what’s in season for each month. Here you see the page with all the seasonal fruits and vegetables in November. It also comes with 4 recipes per month.

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The full list of November’s fruits and vegetables

Last chance

Almost out of season

celery

Stangensellerie

Fenchel

Fenchel

cauliflower

Blumenkohl

a picture of endive

Endivie

Great from storage

These products you can store and enjoy for a while longer

potato

Potato

a picture of chinese cabbage

Chinese cabbage

savoy cabbage

Savoy cabbage

picture of an apple for an overview of during which months this fruit is best to use

Potato

Prime Time

When they’re harvested and at their best!

kale

Grünkohl

Rosenkohl

Brussel Sprouts

oxheart cabbage

Pointed cabbage

pumpkin

Pumpkin

miner's lettuce (winterpostelein)

Miner’s lettuce

leek

Lauch

Rutabaga

Swede

chicory

Chicory

celeriac

Knollensellerie

a picture of a red cabbage

Rotkohl

black salsify 2

Black salsify

beetroot

Beetroot

carrot

Carrot

pear

Birne

white cabbage

White cabbage

parsnip

Parsnip

Starting now

Coming into season

lamb's lettuce

Lamb’s lettuce

The following sources were used for the creation of the seasonal calendar:

Natuur&Milieu, Milieu Centraal, Velt, BZFE, British Seasonal Chart.

Let November’s seasonal ingredients spark creativity in your kitchen!

Our seasonal calendar shows:

  • Products that are almost out of season categorize as Letzte Gelegenheit.
  • Produkte die schon geerntet wurden aber als Lagerware for several months.
  • Hochsaison is when products are harvested and are at their best.
  • Starting now shows you the new arrivals.
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Which recipe can I make with seasonal fruits and vegetables in November?

Knowing what’s in season is only half the job. Of course you also want to know what to actually make with these seasonal vegetables. In our seasonal calendar, we show four recipes for each month. This is one of our favorites for November:

Sauerkraut-Kartoffel Püree

The vegetables do all the work in this recipe and combine lots of different flavours. The sweetness of the apple balances the sauerkraut and the mushrooms add a nice umami taste. Even someone who usually doesn’t like sauerkraut liked it.

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Get 48 seasonal vegetable recipes with our calendar

Scan the QR code on each month to get 4 delicious recipes:

  • Make use of various in-season produce
  • No meat
  • Are filled with natural ingredients and herbs, no mixes or processed stuff
  • Exciting flavors, no standard salads or boring meals
use your phone to scan the QR code at the bottom of each month's page to get access to the recipes. You can also check in which other months you can make these recipes in with the same in-season vegetables and fruits Order here

or shop at local stores in the Netherlands: Oogst in Leiden, Ekoto in Etten-Leur, De Poelboerderij in Wormer, De Gieterij in Wageningen and many more…

Why is it important to eat fruits and vegetables in-season?

We all know vegetables and fruits are most delicious when they’re fresh.
But these days you can get anything at any time you want from the supermarket.

We’ve all gotten used to having a rainbow of produce being available always. Almost the only thing that we still have is ‘pumpkin season’ for Halloween 🎃

Who even knew anymore that spring-onions are not really at their best in spring? They’re always in store. So it’s not strange that you might not realize this has quite the impact on our climate.

When something does not naturally grow in season, it costs a lot extra to produce it,

  • in a greenhouse 🏭,
  • to freeze it to prolong shelf-life ❄️,
  • or to transport it from somewhere else 🚚.

In other words: convenience is costing us in energy and polution.

 

Just a simple example to visualize it, with spinach:

spinach seasonal

Luckily, it’s easy to make a change. By cooking and eating what’s in season and locally available, you can make a difference.

By choosing to make concious choices when shopping instead of going for convenience, you can already make a difference.

And as added benefit, eating in-season will also help you:

  • appreciate variation in veggies and fruits more. Better enjoy those now!
  • be more in-tune with nature – berries are best in spring and summer, kales come when it’s cold
  • make it easier to support locally harvested from local farmers
  • often automatically reduce your shopping costs
Learn more in our blog post Fork Ranger cooking

Auch eine Reise von tausend Kilometern beginnt mit einem ersten Schritt

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