15 Delicious Summer Fruit Recipes to Love
As the warm summer months arrive, so does an abundance of fresh, ripe, and delightfully sweet fruits. There is no better time to take advantage of what nature has to offer. Here are 15 delicious summer fruit recipes to love.
Summer has a huge variety of seasonal produce. From juicy strawberries and plump blueberries to luscious peaches and vibrant raspberries, summer is a true celebration of nature’s fruity delights.
This seasonal bounty provides the perfect inspiration for creating a variety of refreshing and flavorful summer fruit recipes.
Summer is the ideal time to embrace the vibrant colors, tantalizing aromas, and bursting flavors of fresh fruits.
We usually think of summer fruits eaten out of hand. But there are so many other options for using summer fruits.
Whether you’re looking to beat the heat with a chilled fruit salad, indulge in a decadent fruit tart, or quench your thirst with a fruity smoothie, summer fruit recipes offer endless possibilities to satisfy your cravings.
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Celebrate Nature’s Sweet Bounty: 15 Summer Fruit Recipes
These recipes showcase the natural sweetness and juiciness of summer fruits. They also allow you to experiment with unique flavor combinations and creative presentations.
The beauty of fruit is that it’s so versatile. Fruit can be eaten raw, grilled, roasted, or poached.
Fruits are used in breakfast dishes, salad courses, desserts, baked goods, main courses, and beverages. Even pizza!
Types of Fruits
As a bonus, these seasonal fruits are packed with essential vitamins, antioxidants, and fiber, making them a healthy and refreshing addition to any summer meal or snack.
The other wonderful thing about fruits is that there are so many varieties to enjoy:
- Strawberries
- Blueberries
- Blackberries
- Raspberries
- Peaches
- Nectarines
- Plums
- Apricots
- Cherries
- Watermelon
- Cantaloupe
- Honeydew melon
- Pineapple
- Mangoes
- Bananas
- Lemons
- Limes
How many of these fruits are your favorites?
The vibrant flavors of summer and these mouthwatering summer fruit recipes will tantalize your taste buds and delight your senses. Let’s savor nature’s sweetest offerings and make summer fruit our favorites.
My List of Summer Recipes with Fruit
Have fun and enjoy this collection of summer fruit recipes. I tried to find a variety of fruits and preparation options.
Summer Berry Salad
Lindsay of Cotter Crunch shares this Summer Berry Salad that is the perfect recipe when warm weather hits! Made with a handful of whole food ingredients, it comes together in minutes for an allergy-friendly recipe the whole family will love. Serve it on its own as an appetizer, side dish, or dessert!
Grilled Fruit Pizza Bites
If you’ve never grilled fruit, you are in for a treat! Grilled fruit pizza can be enjoyed year-round, even though it highlights summer fruits. It’s a delicate marriage of sweet and tangy, built on your favorite type of pizza crust, making it a light and refreshing, meatless appetizer! You can thank The Sum of All Sweets for the yummy recipe.
Yummy Grape Salad
Grapes may be one of those forgotten fruits, used only to put on a charcuterie board. But this grape salad Family Life DIY shows how this no-cook dish is ready in less than 10 minutes and perfect for potlucks! You will love this refreshing fruit salad on a hot summer day!
Tomato Feta Fruit Salad
To be honest, I don’t think I’ve thought of combining tomatoes with fruit. But this tomato feta salad from Bintu of Recipes from a Pantry looks so delicious. It gets a colorful and flavorful upgrade with the addition of peaches and strawberries. This gorgeous tomato and feta salad is a delicious stand-alone meal that’s perfect for summer!
Summer Treat – Lemon Meringue Pie
This Lemon Meringue Pie made with delicate peaks of golden-brown meringue reveals a creamy and tart lemon curd filling underneath and a flaky pie crust is the best homemade pie you will taste promises Sam and Dan of Ahead of Thyme.
Lemon-Glazed Blueberry Boyfriend Bait
This may be a funny name for a summer fruit dish, Bunny’s Warm Oven swears by it. This lemon glazed blueberry cake is so soft and moist. The blueberry and lemon flavors are perfect together, this is truly a cake you won’t forget, and will want to make over and over again.
Roasted Summer Fruit
Anna of Serving Dumplings says that this summer recipe is barely even a recipe, it’s so easy to throw together! The most important part in creating this dessert is to have juicy, ripe fruit, that’s it! Don’t like peaches? Trade them for apricots or go all-berry. You can replace this with literally any fruit.
Cherry Crumb Pie
Rebecca of Of Batter and Dough delivers this delicious cherry pie with a buttery crumb topping using plump, juicy, sweet cherries that are available in grocery stores and farmer’s markets all summer long. Baked in a flaky pie crust and topped with brown sugar crumbs that are tender and crunchy all at the same time, this just might become your favorite summer fruit pie.
Mango Lime Sorbet
I love the tropical flavor of mangos. Ai of Ai Made It for You shares this refreshing and smooth flavor-packed sorbet that is perfect for hot summer days.
Key Lime Pie
When my kids were young, we vacationed for many years at the beach in Destin, Florida. Every year, we had to have our fix of Key Lime Pie. Arlene of Flour on My Face shares a version of this lip-puckering sweetened key lime filling is so easy to make there is no reason not to enjoy this famous pie recipe all summer.
Piña Colada Smoothie
Disclaimer: I am not a fan of smoothies, but my kids love them. But I do love a good piña colada. When I found this recipe from Remodelaholic, I wanted to give it a try. This pina colada smoothie is the queen of mocktail recipes. Whether you sipping coladas for two or make a huge batch to share with friends, this smoothie recipe is sure to be a hit.
Numbers 12, 13, 14, and 15: My Favorite Summer Recipes
Summer Favorite Fruit Recipes
Want to keep all these summer fruit recipes? Be sure to PIN to keep these ideas handy. You might want to check my Pinterest Board, Fruit Recipes and Summer Recipes.
Use some of these wonderful recipes to plan your summer use of fruits. You will be ready for making delicious fruit dishes your family will love.
