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.