Fall Fruit Recipes

After summer's ripe berries and juicy stone fruit fade, autumn brings an abundance of succulent figs, plump grapes, and baskets filled with apples and pears. Once you're tired of eating them fresh out of hand, give these fall fruit recipes a try. They're delicious, simple recipes using easy techniques to make use of all the seasonal goodness.

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What is fall fruit?

By late September, fall is in full swing with all its accompanying abundance. It starts first with juicy plums, plump figs, and grapes. Then the apples and pears begin to arrive before making way for fresh pomegranates and the first citrus fruits of the season.

Stone fruit is a summer fruit, but you can still find plums during early fall.

Berry season is also at its end, but blackberries will continue to be in season well into October, and cranberries are a delicious late-season option.

Pomaceous fruit includes apples, pears, Asian pears. and quince. Their season begins during early fall and lasts until late fall.

Citrus begins its season during fall, and mandarin oranges, such as satsumas and clementines, are usually the first to appear. Kumquats and yuzu arrive later.

Other fall fruits include pomegranates, figs, grapes, and persimmons.

Cooking with Fall Fruit

As with fall vegetables, most autumn fruits work well when you roast them in the oven or, in the case of pomaceous fruits such as apples and pears, stew them into simple but nourishing sauces.

Pomegranates, with their tart and juicy arils, make a nice complement for salads, or you can toss them onto dessert as a garnish. While fresh cranberries, whose season lasts only a brief window in October and November, work well as sauces or in smoothies.