Redcurrant recipes
Got a glut of redcurrants on your hands? Use them up in these delicious redcurrant recipes.
Redcurrants are usually season from early July until late August. They’re a popular choice with gardeners and you’ll also often find them at pick-your-own farms (often along with whitecurrants and blackcurrants). Get hold of a punnet or two, then take your pick from one of our tried-and-tested redcurrant recipes.
Redcurrants’ scarlet hue and tart flavour makes them a great choice for preserves and compotes. Combine them with other ripe berries to make a classic summer pudding or try them in a refreshing sorbet or semifreddo with iced berries and white chocolate sauce. Which dish will you make first?
Browse our blackcurrant and plum recipe collections for more high-summer inspiration.
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Redcurrant recipes
Redcurrant margarita
Ideal when you’re pining for a taste of sunshine in winter, this margarita is flavoured and turned bright red by an intense redcurrant syrup.
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Duck recipes
Spatchcock duck with plums and redcurrants
Our delicious recipe for spatchcock duck can be made in the oven or on the BBQ for incredible flavour. Serve with grilled plums & redcurrants.
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Redcurrant recipes
Mixed summer berry pain perdu
This summer berry pain perdu is perfect to use up stale white bread (pain perdu translates as 'lost bread' from the French). Or serve as a holiday brunch.
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Frozen dessert recipes
Semifreddo with iced berries and hot white chocolate sauce
Semifreddo topped with frozen berries and a drizzle of hot white chocolate sauce makes a fantastic festive or dinner party dessert.
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Ice cream recipes
Redcurrant custard ripple
Quick pud neeed? Try this summery chilled custard pudding with fresh redcurrants. Use up a punnet, or make the most of a glut you've grown.
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Make-ahead summer dessert recipes
Summer pudding
White bread mightn't sound the most enticing ingredient for a pud, but trust us, this fruity pud is perfect, packing in raspberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants...
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Apricot recipes
Redcurrant sorbet with baked apricots
This pud uses a lots of redcurrants, rewarding you with intensely fruity sorbet. Served with soft, baked apricots, you have a colourful summery dessert.
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Brilliant blackberry recipes
Blackberry and currant compote
In autumn, make the most of the ripe, soft fruits that abound at this time of year by preserving them with this gorgeous blackberry compote recipe.
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Low-fat desserts
Raspberry and redcurrant sorbet
Capture the tang of summer berries with this low-fat raspberry and redcurrant sorbet recipe.
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Individual summer berry compotes
Summer berry compotes with strawberries, raspberries, cherries, blueberries and redcurrants make a perfectly light and refreshing dessert.
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Quick pudding recipes in under 20 minutes
Summer pudding trifles
With seasonal redcurrants, blackcurrants, raspberries and strawberries these summer pudding trifles make for a light dessert.
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