Celebrate summer's glut of stone fruit with these nectarine recipes. Choose from your favourite desserts including nectarine tart, trifle, muffins, cake or simply roasted to perfection. Dig in!
This stunning salad is all about beautiful ingredients and lots of texture – and it can be whipped up in a flash! Serve as a colourful side, or generously as a main dish.
These little nectarine and Pimms picnic jelly jars are so much fun to make, and even more fun to eat! Chill in small jars so they are easy to transport, and enjoy for a delightful boozy dessert.
Slightly cheese-cakey, this Nici Wickes tart is a fantastic gluten-free dessert for the summer. Top it with fresh seasonal fruit and that divine ginger syrup!
The sweetness of the fruit and the savoury richness of extra virgin olive oil make this the most wonderful summer cake. It's great served warm for dessert or with a cuppa.
Treat that special someone to a breakfast made with love with this pikelet recipe. Spread with cinnamon ricotta and serve with necatarine wedges for a perfectly romantic start to the day
This peach and nectarine trifle recipe is the perfect example of just how good stone fruit can be. Poach until tender and layer with mascarpone and savoiardi biscuits for a dreamy summer dessert
Nici Wickes' nectarine knickerbocker glory recipe is so easy to throw together, and the textures and flavours ping and pow all over the place to create a dessert that just screams summer!
Nici Wickes' pairs golden caramelised nectarines with homemade yoghurt curd in this beautifully simple recipe. Roasting stone fruit until it’s slightly singed in places is a gorgeous way to eat it
This muffin recipe is a one-bowl wonder, easy to throw together and the cardamom is a beautiful whisper of flavour alongside the fruit. And who doesn’t like a freshly baked muffin first thing in the morning? My mum’s muffins are the best – though I might be a bit biased!
At first glance this looks like a classic fruit tart to be eaten by the slice. However, with this tart you have to deconstruct it in order to eat it. The nutty walnut shell is not only intended to hold the sweet globes of roasted fruit together; it’s meant to be smashed up, crumbled and piled. Slap on a dollop of clotted cream or tart crème fraîche and dig in.
Super-easy to prepare, these little almondy cakes can pretty much handle any seasonal fruit so feel free to be creative with what you have on hand. Recipes and styling by Fiona Hugues. Photography by Jani Shepherd. Gatherum Collectif.
Ahhhh, stone fruit… it doesn't hang around for long, but while it's in season (November to March) it's best to make the most of it. Savour the delicious taste of fresh, sweet nectarines, peaches, plums, apricots and cherries with these sensational stone fruit recipes.
