Add a bright touch to dishes with zest, juice or whole segments of orange and blood orange. We love combining citrus flavours with rich proteins like duck or oily fish, but orange is equally at home with dark chocolate, fennel and pistachio.
Looking for a high-impact visual? You can’t go past a beetroot and orange salad. Italian-style desserts make the most of bittersweet blood orange while sticky doughnuts, moist cakes and more benefit from orange’s citrus zing.
Keep a couple of oranges on hand and you’ll never be far from a stunning dish, whether sweet or savoury.
Grilled tuna with blood orange, fennel and black olive dressing
Blood orange sablés Bretons with mascarpone and pistachios
Orange and grated carrot salad with orange-flower water
Asparagus with blood-orange and chervil hollandaise
Carpaccio of beetroot, blood orange, feta and baby herbs
Orange, cardamom and almond cake with orange-blossom yoghurt
Insalata di cicoria, finocchio e arancia (chicory, fennel and orange salad)
Cauliflower salad with orange and cumin dressing, and buffalo yoghurt
Scampi wrapped in calamari with carrot and orange salad
Prunes and oranges in Cognac with crème fraîche ice-cream