15 Sweet & Juicy Plum Recipes
If you've spent all summer dreaming of peaches, you can't forget about plums! Ranging in flavor from sweet to tart, plums are an excellent addition to a number of both sweet and savory dishes and should definitely be mixed into your summer dishes.
Keep reading to check out some of our favorite plum recipes, ripe for the making!
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Stone Fruit Clafoutis with Cardamom
Buttery, fruity, and extra fluffy, this clafoutis is made up of a variety of stone fruits including plums, peaches, apricots, and/or nectarines.
Butter, eggs, milk, and vanilla are blended up and combined with flour, sugar, salt, and cardamom to create a simple batter before being paired with perfectly ripe, sliced stone fruit.
Bake it for 45 minutes, let it cool, and finish it off with a dusting of powdered sugar. Bon appetit!
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Plum Smoothie
If you've already baked to your heart's desire, try this plum smoothie recipe to use up the rest of any of your leftover fruit!
Ripe plums, vanilla yogurt, rolled oats, and flaxseed are blended up to creamy perfection to create a healthy on-the-go breakfast.
Keep the recipe as is or toss in your favorite greens for a little extra healthy kick.
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Plum Squares with Marzipan Crumble
With a crispy, crumbly crust and an ooey-gooey plum filling, these dessert squares are a quick and easy summer dessert and super simple to tote along to a picnic or BBQ.
A simple crust is created in the food processor before being pressed into a square baking pan and filled with a plum-sugar-cornstarch mixture.
Dust your bars with powder sugar before serving, and keep them in a pan for up to a week!
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Five-Spice Chicken with Roasted Plum Sauce
Inspired by Chinese cuisine, this five-spice chicken with roasted plum sauce is the perfect balance of savory and sweet.
Bone-in chicken is rubbed with a homemade 5-spice rub before being roasted in the oven with plums, onions, garlic, ginger, and olive oil.
Once the chicken is cooked through and removed from the sheet pan, the remaining ingredients are paired with the plum sauce ingredients, blitzed in the blender, and served on a plate with the chicken on top.
This savory recipe is a great way to enjoy the last couple of weeks of plum season, and is a unique addition to your weeknight dinner lineup.
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Pastry Wrapped Baked Brie with Thyme Butter Roasted Plums
As far as desserts are concerned, no ingredient makes a recipe easier than premade puff pastry.
In this recipe, plums, butter, maple syrup, and thyme are roasted in the oven for 20 minutes before being spread across puff pastry and brie cheese.
The whole dessert is baked until it's a beautiful golden brown color and topped with fresh thyme.
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Late Summer Plum Cake
The perfect dessert to transition from summer to fall, this plum cake is perfectly moist with decadent swirls of caramelized plums.
A simple cake batter is hand-whipped and poured into a springform pan before being topped with slices of fresh, perfectly ripe plums.
Let the cake cool slightly before topping it with a big dollop of ice cream and serving.
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Plum & Burrata Flatbread with Balsamic and Arugula
If you're not really in the mood for baking but are looking for a quick and easy sweet and savory way to enjoy ripe plums, consider this grilled flatbread!
In this summery appetizer recipe, flatbread (or in this case, naan) is grilled before being topped with burrata cheese, ripe plums, baby arugula, basil, and balsamic glaze.
Serve this flatbread as an appetizer for your next outdoor dinner.
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Plum Salad with Jicama and Cucumber
Cool, crunchy, fresh, with a punch of sweetness, this plum salad with jicama and cucumber is the perfect salad to serve alongside grilled steak or smoked salmon.
Crunchy jicama and cucumber pair well with tender, perfectly ripe plum.
Vegan and gluten-free, this salad features a homemade shrub dressing consisting of plums, sugar, shiso leaves, and rice vinegar.
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Peach & Plum Caprese Salad
Another quick and easy summer salad, this Caprese salad features peaches and plums as opposed to tomatoes, though some heirloom tomatoes would make for a wonderful addition!
Calling for simply ripe fruit, mozzarella, basil leaves, olive oil, and salt and pepper, all you have to do to achieve this beautiful salad is simply slice up your produce and cheese, layer it up nicely, and drizzle it with olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and pepper.
Serve your Caprese salad as a mid-day snack or as an appetizer for a backyard BBQ.
Find the full recipe at Love & Lemons
Even More Plum Recipes
Radicchio and Plum Salad from Bon Appetit
Sheet Pan Saffron Chicken and Plums from Brooklyn Supper
Plum Jam from Natasha's Kitchen
Plum Crisp with Pistachio, Oat, and Almond Meal Topping from Cookie + Kate
Roasted Plums with Spiced Syrup from Food Fidelity
Plum and Ginger Galette from King Arthur Baking