18 Great Recipes Starring Grapes, From Sweet Treats to Savory Salads (2024)

Updated on August 18, 2023

Our Favorite Fall Appetizer Recipes for Any Kind of Gathering

Roasted Chicken Breasts With Grape Stuffing

This one-skillet comfort meal is a showcase for bone-in chicken breasts roasted on top of a fragrant stuffing. Grapes, white wine, and the chicken's roasting juices infuse the ciabatta pieces with flavor while the top crackles with brown goodness.

Red-Grape Cake With Whipped Creme Fraiche

If grapes aren't on your list of cake add-ins, this enticing recipe will change your mind. Sour cream gives the cake a rich and moist texture, while a generous dollop of crème fraîche (or fresh whipped cream) adds a satisfying topping.

Concord Grape Tart

The distinctive early fall flavor of Concord grapes is celebrated in this buttery tart. Cooking and straining the fruit removes their seeds and captures their fleeting aroma.

Grape Tart

A nutty oat crust is filled with pastry cream and studded with seedless green and grapes. Feel free to use your favorite variety of grape or even add other tasty fruits, like strawberries or blueberries.

Chevre Grapes

You only need to three ingredients to make this stunning yet simple bite-sized appetizer. Grapes are hollowed and rimmed with finely chopped pistachios, then filled with creamy and tangy goat cheese.

Grape Focaccia

With a sticky pocket of juice oozing jammily around each fruit this yeasty focaccia is destined to become a staple. Tear it apart and serve with soft cheeses.

Garden-of-Evil Punch

Packed with moodily dark fruit this luscious punch is a showcase for whole, in-season bunches of grapes. And it tastes even better than it looks.

Farro Salad With Oven-Roasted Grapes and Autumn Greens

This assertively herbed and nutty farro salad is filled with the honeyed texture of roasted grapes. To celebrate their season, use musky Concord grapes to add a final flourish of flavor (just swallow the seeds!).

No-Churn Grape Sorbet

The freshness of mint with lemon juice balance the seedless sweetness of the grapes in this refreshing sorbet. All it takes is five minutes (plus freezing time).

Green Fruit Bowl With Frozen Grapes

Have you ever frozen grapes? You should! Mixed with soft green melon and kiwi and dressed with thyme-scented syrup, frozen grapes are the luxuriously lingering mouthful in this fruity riff on a green salad.

Oven-Dried Grapes

Slow-and-low: Baking entire bunches of grapes in a cool oven for eight hours transforms a familiar fruit into a compellingly more-ish partner for cheese. Bake more than you think you need. They disappear fast.

Grape Pico de Gallo

The sweet crunch of seedless grapes is turned savory by the addition of cilantro, hot pepper, and bright lime. Ready in under five minutes, this is an effortless topping for ripe avocado, grilled corn, or a charred steak.

Roasted-Grape Shortcakes

A fragrant filling of grapes roasted with thyme and cinnamon makes these buttery shortcakes distinctly different.

Polenta Grape Cake

Rosemary and honey bring out the best in the seedless grapes that stud this simple and rustic cake.

Panna Cotta With Roasted Grapes

The quiet silkiness of panna cotta is the ideal backdrop for the rich juices of roasted grapes.

Red Fruit Salad With White Balsamic and Black Pepper

The secret to this vivid fruit salad is the vinegar-reduction with pepper, which adds a bracing backdrop to the soft summer fruits.

Roasted Grape and Burrata Crostini

Roasting well-seasoned grapes with rosemary is the secret to this creamy-crunchy appetizer.

Grape Jelly

Choose Concord grapes to get that classic grape jelly flavor, but any variety will fit the bill for this grape recipe.

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