TOP 10 Delicious Quince Recipes
Recipes for Quince, Fall's Most Mysterious Fruit
1. Quince and Marzipan Cake
Quince are one of those fruits that simply cannot be eaten raw but cooked in this Quince and Marzipan Cake it tastes unbelievably delicious and even changes color while after cooking. I am a total lover for Marzipan and together these ingredients make a heavenly tasty cake. It’s light and…
Ingredients for Quince and Marzipan Cake:
600ml Water
250g Caster sugar
1 Lemon
All or a mixture of
3 medium Quinces
310g Spelt flour
1 tbsp Baking powder
80g Brown sugar
grated zest of 1 Lemon
½ tsp Salt
60g melted Butter
2 Eggs
340ml Buttermilk
150g Marzipan
2 tbsp Flaked almonds
2. Quince Tarte Tatin
Quince Tarte Tatin is my seasonal take on the classic French tarte tatin dessert. A tarte tatin is an upside-down fruit tart. It is usually made with apples, but I use quince fruit in this version. The quince is caramelized with sugar and butter. While cooking, the pastry pie crust…
Ingredients for Quince Tarte Tatin:
3 Quinces
1 cup Cabernet Merlot Wine
2 cups Water
1 Cinnamon stick
3 whole Star Anise
4 whole Cloves
1 tbsp Vanilla extract
3 Cardamon
1 Oranges
1 pinch Salt
½ cup+½ cup Caster sugar
3 1/2 tbsp Unsalted butter
375 g pack of all-butter Frozen puff pastry
3. Quince Jelly
I’ve always been intrigued by Quince Jelly thanks to the wonderful poem ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ by Edward Lear. In it, the protagonists famously “dine on mince and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon”. The magic of the poem has stuck with me since childhood…
Ingredients for Quince Jelly:
3 ½ lb Quinces
7 cups Water
3 ½ cups Sugar
4. Quince Paste
Quince Paste is something I first came across in Spain where it is called ‘membrillo’. If you order cheese in a Spanish restaurant, you can be sure that a little square or two of this fruit preserve will arrive on the side. I love to make some for my Christmas…
Ingredients for Quince Paste:
3 ½ lb Quinces
2 pounds Granulated sugar
Water
5. Quince Juice
Quince Juice is a recipe that I tried for the first time last Fall and I can’t wait to make it again this year! I was at my local farmer’s market and they had a large bucket of quince fruit. I picked up a bag of this knobbly and ugly…
Ingredients for Quince Juice:
1 ½ kg Quinces
500g Sugar
2 quarts Water
6. Quince Cake
In this Quince Cake we have used poached quince in white wine which turns the fruit into a beautiful classic cream color when cooked, with a delicious fragrance. As they are an Autumn fruit, snap them up the minute you see these seasonal fruit being sold at your local fruit…
Ingredients for Quince Cake :
800 g Quinces
240 g Sugar
100 ml Dry white wine
250 g cultured Butter
1 tsp Lemon peel
4 Eggs
150 g All-purpose flour
150 g Spelt flour
1 tsp Baking powder
50 ml Whipping cream
30 g Almonds
7. Delicious Quince Smoothie
And to follow with our quince-themed recipes, we’ve made a Delicious Quince Smoothie. Famously known to be bitter when uncooked, there are enormous health benefits to drinking it juiced. A hung sung hero hailing from the Middle East, high in dietary fiber, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, a great source of…
Ingredients for Delicious Quince Smoothie:
1 Quinces
1 wedge Lemon
1 Oranges
1 Apples
1 cup Pumpkin
1-2 cup Apple juice
1 dash Cinnamon
8. Millet Porridge with Cranberries and Quince
This Millet Porridge with Cranberries and Quince is so good it’s like having dessert for breakfast. Millet grain combined with almond milk or another vegan, plant-based milk for a creamy textured porridge and I decorate my bowls with beautiful, cooked and sweetened quince and apples, some cranberries, …
Ingredients for Millet Porridge with Cranberries and Quince:
1 cup Millet
2 cups Almond milk
1 (about 7 oz) Quinces
1 cup Cranberries
2 Apples
1 tbsp Coconut sugar
½ cup Water
½ tsp Cinnamon
1-2 tsp Coconut flakes
½ cup Pomegranate seeds
9. Mediterranean Lamb with Spiced Quince
Mediterranean Lamb with Spiced Quince has a unique flavor especially suited to the tastes coming from the Mediterranean. Spicy, sweet and subtle flavors of the cooked lamb loin with cardamom, anise and cinnamon, are the secret to this meal with delightful, heady aromas. The lamb and quince are deliciously paired…
Ingredients for Mediterranean Lamb with Spiced Quince:
500g loin Lamb
Salt
freshly ground Black pepper
2 tbsp Olive oil
250 ml Beef broth
4 (600 g) Quinces
2 tbsp Lemon juice
1 Onion
1 tbsp Honey
2 Cardamom pods
1 Star Anise
1 Cinnamon stick
2 tbsp Pistachio nuts
10. Quince Jam
I love this Quince Jam recipe! It is simple to make and tastes absolutely delicious. If you’ve ever cooked with quince, you’ll know it’s like a magic ingredient. When raw, it is hard, bitter, knobbly and unappetizing. However, once cooked with sugar, the flesh changes from a pale yellow to…
Ingredients for Quince Jam:
6 packed cups Quinces
3 1/2 cups Water
1/4 cup Lemon juice
1 tbsp Lemon zest
4 cups Sugar