Mandarin oranges add tangy-sweet freshness to both savoury dishes and desserts. The sweet, small sibling in the citrus family works perfectly well in a quick, easy and vibrant salad recipe where it’s best paired with the salty hit of cheese in our baked feta and mandarin orange dish. It also holds its own alongside roast fish, roast duck, charred octopus and even beef cheek ravioli.
As for mandarin desserts, we have a mandarin orange cake with ginger syrup, mandarin-glazed cookies, jammy mandarin and cinnamon buns and baked ricotta cream with mandarin caramel. Really, what can’t this wonderously tiny orange do?
Here are our best recipes with mandarin oranges.
Roast snapper with mandarin and fennel sauce
Baked feta salad with mandarin and fennel
Sussex pond puddings with mandarin English cream
Si Paradiso’s charred octopus with almonds and mandarin
Mandarin and yoghurt frozen slice
Rice pudding with vanilla and caramelised mandarin compote
Beef cheek ravioli with mandarin mustard fruits
Choc-mandarin pudding with mandarin granita
Prickly pear granita, mandarin granita, vanilla ice-cream
Baked ricotta cream with mandarin caramel
