LEON, the Naturally Fast Food chain, is launching its Spring Menu with new flavours from Asia and the Caribbean, with a vegan Plantain Curry and Kay Plunkett-Hogge’s Home-Style Thai Curry.

The Spring Menu is available from April 4th, and focuses on nourishment and comfort; with dishes that are kind to our bodies as well as being kind to the planet.

Inspired by traditional West Indies cooking, the Caribbean Plantain Curry is a spicy mix of sweet potato and plantain, two foods rich in stress and anxiety-busting magnesium. (Read here and here) In addition, plantain – a member of the banana family – is also a major source of vitamin B6. (Read here).

Blended with mineral- and antioxidant-rich kale in a creamy coconut sauce, the curry is finished with zingy lime and spicy habanero chillies adding a boldly flavoured plant-based dish to the LEON menu, of which 67% is already vegan or vegetarian. The is taken straight from the pages of LEON’s latest cookbook Fast Vegan, a celebration of LEON’s 15-year love affair with vegetables.

LEON’s spring menu will also include a special dish inspired by the new cookbook by celebrated food writer Kay Plunkett–Hogge: Baan: Recipes and stories from my Thai home, launching on the 4th April. Kay’s Home-Style Thai Curry is a bold, fragrant curry made with British chicken thigh, aubergine, baby sweetcorn and bamboo shoots.

LEON continues to champion seasonal, fresh food that make eating well easy for everyone to eat well. Those following a gluten- or wheat-free diet can now also order their burgers on a gluten-free poppy seed bun instead of vegan sourdough.  This means LEON’s LOVe burger, launched in January, can now be ordered as a vegan and gluten-free dish: a plant-based soya and beetroot patty topped with vegan Carolina mustard mayo, LEON’s burger sauce, tomatoes, pickles and a slice of smoked Gouda-style vegan cheese.

This year the brand is adding more plant-based options to its menu than ever before, including the recently-launched LOVe burger and Harissa Falafel Wrap.

The Spring Menu also brings  old favourites. Back by popular demand, LEON has also brought back its Strawberry Lemonade (£2.25), a mix of freshly-squeezed lemon juice and fresh strawberry, first launched in 2011 and wrote about in LEON’s fourth cookbook, Family & Friends.

The Caribbean Plantain Curry (£4.95), and Kay’s Home-Style Thai Curry (£5.95) are available now.