Packed with vitamin C and known for its distinctive bittersweet tang, grapefruit is a marvellous citrus to cook with. Whether you’re a particular fan of of ruby red grapefruit or partial to all its coloured variants, the large, tart citrus works just as well in savoury dishes as it does in decadent desserts.
From speedy winter salad recipes boasting bright bursts of grapefruit to sorbets made from fresh grapefruit juice to a grapefruit recipe of citrus-driven sponge cake from Flour and Stone, our collection of grapefruit recipes is here to celebrate the season (but we equally love them year-round).
Here are our favourite sweet and savoury grapefruit recipes.
Roast chicken salad with celeriac, radicchio and pink grapefruit
Crème fraîche crumble cake with grapefruit marmalade
Spanner crab, pink grapefruit and coconut salad
Pinbone’s witlof, grapefruit and pecorino salad
Flour and Stone’s pink grapefruit sponge with strawberries and sesame frosting
Veal carpaccio with ruby grapefruit and celery salad
Boozy crème caramel with grapefruit tuiles
Swordfish carpaccio with pink grapefruit and pink peppercorns
Pink grapefruit and fried shallot salad with grilled lime and chilli prawns
Caramelised pink grapefruit and vanilla ice-cream
Oysters with ruby grapefruit
Mexican-style tuna salad with grapefruit, avocado and fennel
Baby vegetable slaw with grapefruit and tarragon
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Ricotta fritters with lime curd and candied grapefruit
Tuna crudo with ruby grapefruit and fennel
Lemon and pink grapefruit syrup cakes with vanilla bean ice-cream
Veal cutlets with coriander and grapefruit sauce and parsley, burghul and grapefruit salad
Chocolate gâteaux with grapefruit sorbet
Kingfish crudo, burnt ruby grapefruit, pickled fennel and anchovy
Mandarin and ruby grapefruit jelly, blood orange granita and citrus salad
Roast fennel, mint and ruby grapefruit salad
Chocolate mousse with pink grapefruit and vanilla cream
Crisp-skin trout with grapefruit, walnut and radicchio salad
What can you do with a lot of grapefruit?
Grapefruit is an excellent citrus to enjoy raw, but there are only so many plain grapefruit breakfasts or snacks to be had. The bitter-sweet flavour profile of grapefruit works particularly well in a jelly or a sorbet. Recipes such as these have the added bonus of using a lot of grapefruits for their juice, so if you have a lot on hand, now you know which recipes to make. In this collection we have a mandarin and grapefruit jelly that calls for two whole grapefruits, or a grapefruit sorbet that will require five or six whole grapefruits, depending on the size.
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