Sweet recipes Savoury A celebration of winter fruits, this blood orange and passion fruit pavlova from Nigella Lawson’s Cook, Eat, Repeat combines light, chewy meringue, softly whipped cream, and tangy fruit.
It might look impressive, but this orange polenta cake recipe from Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients Quick & Easy Food is incredibly easy to make. It also happens to be gluten-free and packed with the tangy flavour of blood orange.
A simple and flavourful bake that’s free of both dairy and gluten, this blood orange cake with olive oil and almonds from The New Vegetarian by Alice Hart makes a spectacular dessert or afternoon treat.
If you want to go all out and bake something really extravagant, try your hand at this beautiful blood orange tart from Richard Bertinet’s Patisserie Maison. A sweet pastry shell filled with zingy orange curd and topped with caramelised slices of blood orange, it’s a truly celestial dessert.
Abel & Cole’s cookbook How to Eat Brilliantly Every Day is all about celebrating the seasonality of ingredients, and their blood orange piri piri recipe pays well-deserved homage to the blood orange. Its bright citrus flavour lends a welcome freshness to the smoky piri piri sauce, creating a well-balanced dish that makes a lovely warming recipe for a winter weeknight.
This recipe from NOPI by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully is an understated masterpiece, famously served at their Soho restaurant. Not only is it beautifully presented, it hits all the right notes with the fresh citrus cutting through the creamy burrata, and the coriander and lavender adding a complex depth of flavour.
The combination of savoury chicken and couscous with tart blood orange in this recipe from The Recipe Wheel creates a bright, fresh dish that works particularly well as a light lunch. It is also a fantastic way to use up leftover chicken.
In his beautiful cookbook Venice: Four Seasons of Home Cooking, Russell Norman notes that it’s best to use blood oranges when in season for his fennel, mint, and orange salad. This salad would make a refreshing side dish to accompany a rich meat or pasta dish.
