Celebrate the Season! 12 Sweet and Savory Winter Citrus Recipes

By Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine | Updated on January 9, 2024

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12 of our favorite bright and sunny recipes featuring winter citrus! These delicious recipes are perfect for cold winter days.

Winter can mean lots of cold and gray days. Brighten things up with these sunny winter citrus recipes! Lemons, oranges, clementines and more are all in season right now and we've got lots of delicious ways to use them.

Citrus shines in salads and baked goods. If you're in the mood for a little kitchen project, be sure to check out our marmalades. We hope these easy and delicious recipes brighten your day. Enjoy!

Orange Fennel Spinach Salad with Honey White Balsamic Dressing

This Orange Fennel Spinach Salad is fresh, healthy and super delish. It's also a beautiful sight to behold and the Honey White Balsamic Dressing ties all the ingredients together with a bow!

Easy Blood Orange Marmalade (no canning skills needed!)

With only 15 minutes of hands-on time, this delicious (not-bitter) Blood Orange Marmalade brings a little sunshine to the breakfast table! No canning skills needed!

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!

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. 

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!

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!

Overhead photo of raspberry meyer lemon marmalade in a glass jar and also spread on toast with a small gold spoon

Raspberry Meyer Lemon Marmalade

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

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!

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!

Vertical picture of Easy Microwave Lemon Curd in glass jars

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!

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.

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!

Thought for the day:

Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.
Psalm 42:5

What we're listening to for inspiration:

Psalm 42

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