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12 Bright, Sunny Citrus Recipes to Chase Away the Winter Blues

By Chris Scheuer | Updated on January 8, 2023

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Twelve bright and sunny winter citrus recipes for cold winter days! With everything from marmalade to dessert, there's something for everyone.

Citrus is at its peak right now! Make the most of it with these delicious recipes. We love using the bright flavors of winter citrus on these cold gray days. With grapefruits, lemons, oranges, clementines and more, there are plenty of ways to incorporate citrus into your cooking.

We love making vibrant salad dressings, marmalades, salads and of course desserts. Find a new favorite winter recipe today and brighten someone's day. Enjoy!

Skillet Lemon Rosemary Chicken and Farro

With juicy, tender chicken, healthy farro and loads of fresh spinach, this hearty, delicious Lemon Rosemary Chicken and Farro is an easy meal in one pan!

Pink Grapefruit Marmalade in a glass jar with a label and an English muffin with marmalade on top

Pink Grapefruit Marmalade

This Pink Grapefruit Marmalade is a taste of delicious sunshine on your toast, biscuits, scones, English muffins... It's also wonderful on ice cream and makes a fantastic glaze for grilled pork, chicken, shrimp or salmon.

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Ridiculously Easy Microwave Lemon Curd

Making homemade lemon curd can be a complicated process. Not this Microwave Lemon Curd! It's silky smooth, bursting with bright lemon flavor and color and comes together in minutes!

Overhead picture of orange fennel watercress salad in a white bowl on a blue and white kitchen towel

Orange Fennel Watercress Salad

This Orange Fennel Watercress Salad with Lemon Ginger Poppyseed Dressing is a heavenly combination of fresh, beautiful, seasonal ingredients!

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Whole Lemon Thyme Salad Dressing

The most sunny, bright delicious salad dressing you'll ever meet! And it's got a zillion other uses too!

Vertical Close up picture of Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad with Mango Curry Dressing in a blue bowl

Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad

This Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad has a wonderful Mango Curry Dressing. It's fresh, healthy and loaded with delicious flavor!

30-Minute Clementine Pepper Jelly

Clementine Pepper Jelly - it's fabulous for appetizers, glazes and gifts. Oh, and it's insanely delicious on warm biscuits with butter!

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Raspberry Meyer Lemon Marmalade

This Raspberry Meyer Lemon Marmalade tastes like a delicious explosion of sunshine and takes less than 45 minutes to make!

Vertical overhead photo of a pot of Avgolemono (Greek Chicken Pasta Soup) on a wood table.

Avgolemono (Greek Chicken Pasta Soup)

This Avgolemono, a lemony Greek chicken pasta soup is healthy and hearty (lots of satisfying protein), creamy (no cream!) and so delicious!

Vertical photo of a Ridiculously Easy Orange Olive Oil Cake on a scalloped pedestal cake stand and decorated with mini daisies.

Ridiculously Easy Orange Olive Oil Cake

This delicious, tender-crumbed Orange Olive Oil Cake can be thrown together in minutes with just one bowl and a whisk. The crisp, candy-like, fresh orange glaze adds fantastic flavor and a beautiful presentation!

Crinkly Crackly Lemon Sugar Cookies

These one-bowl, no-mixer, lemon sugar cookies have a melt-in-your-mouth texture, lots of crinkly cracks, super-crisp, sugar-coated exteriors and moist, chewy insides! There's also a burst of sunshiny lemon flavor with every bite!

Vertical picture of Orange Cilantro Vinaigrette in a glass cruet

Orange Cilantro Vinaigrette

This easy Orange Cilantro Vinaigrette is bursting with fresh flavor and will add lots of pizzazz to your winter salads. Drizzle it over chicken, seafood and pork too!

Cranberry clementine arugula salad on an oval platter with small bowls of pickled red onions and nuts

Clementine Arugula Salad

This delicious Clementine Arugula Salad features sweet clementines, dried cranberries, jewel-toned pomegranate seeds, vibrant clementine-pickled onions and crunchy butter-roasted pecans. 

Thought for the  day:

The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;
    the righteous run to it and are safe.
Proverbs 18:12

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