8 Amazing Summer Fruit Recipes To Impress At Your Next Barbecue

Utilizing seasonal fruit recipes is a surefire way to get the tastiest and most flavourful dishes. With summer and BBQ season right around the corner, try making use of the beautiful peaches, berries, plums and cherries mother nature has to offer by trying these 8 amazing summer fruit recipes to impress at your next barbecue.

1. Chilled Peach Soup with Fresh Goat Cheese

The first option on this list of summer fruit recipes would be a savoury Chilled Peach soup with Fresh Goat Cheese.

This sweet and tangy concoction uses marinated fresh peaches and veggies, dried apricots, honey, goat cheese, vinegar and olive oil, blended together and served cold. Add some croutons and basil for garnish and you have a perfectly refreshing, summer appetizer.

2. Summer Salad with Arugula and Almonds

A second savoury option on our fruit recipes list would be this Summer Salad with Arugula and Almonds.

The fruits listed in this dish can be substituted with whatever looks best at your local farmers market or grocery store and this particular recipe serves up to 10 people and can be whipped up in about 30 minutes.

3. Caribbean-Spiced Pork Tenderloin With Peach Salsa

The last of our savoury fruit recipes is this colourful and flavourful Caribbean-Spiced Pork Tenderloin With Peach Salsa. 

This beautiful dish makes use of the classic summer fruit, peaches, and is altogether fresh, sweet and spicy, with an amazing depth of flavour. The entire meal can be made in about 35 minutes and the peaches can be swapped out for Strawberries or Pineapple.

4. Summer Plum Crostata

The first sweet option of our summer fruit recipes is this elegant and comforting Summer Plum Crostata.

Try using plums that are naturally quite tart, like the suggested Colorado Plums, which keep their tangy flavour even when ripe. Also, this recipe doesn’t require any particularly fancy or specific pie tins. A simple baking sheet gets the job done.

5. Cherry Clafoutis

This next summer fruit recipe is a classic french dessert called a Clafoutis. Traditionally made with black cherries and mixed into a flan-like batter, this beautiful custard-like dessert highlights, in the best of ways, this seasonal favourite.

Since summertime is the peak of cherry season, try to find a recipe that does not add too much extra sugar to the batter, especially since your fruit will often be sweet enough.

6.Classic Summer Berry Sorbet

Some of the best summer fruit recipes are often well-known classics and instant crowd-pleasers that don’t require fancy or complicated ingredients. A prime example to try out would be this Classic Summer Berry Sorbet.

Though it does require very few, easily obtained components to put together, you will need an ice cream machine to complete the process. Also, try playing around with different flavours by changing up the type of fruit you use.

7. Coconut Pistachio Semifreddo With Fresh Peaches

This creamy fruit recipe is inspired by a semi-frozen Italian dessert, but adds sweetened condensed milk for richness.

Flavoured with coconut milk, lime zest, toasted pistachios and macerated peaches, this Coconut Pistachio Semifreddo with Fresh Peaches (Semifreddo being Italian for half cold) does not require hardly any cooking and is the perfect dessert to impress during your cookouts, barbecues or at any of your next get togethers.

8. Strawberry Watermelon Slush

The final fruit recipe on this list is a bright, refreshing and easily prepared Strawberry Watermelon Slush. Simply throw all the ingredients together in a blender with ice and serve on a hot summer’s day.

This beverage is perfect for kids and adults alike and utilizes the universal summer fruit favourites, watermelon and strawberries.

Which one of these 8 amazing summer fruit recipes will you make for your next barbecue? What are some of your favourite summer fruits? Let us know in the comments down below!

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