Move over, raisins and cranberries! Dried apricots are here to steal the show, adding their signature sweetness to these 25 irresistible recipes that everyone will love.
1. Apricot Coconut Crumble Bars
If you want to spruce up your annual Christmas cookie repertoire, you’ve got to try these crumble bars. They offer sweetness, tanginess, and a satisfying crumble.
Simmer the apricots with sugar and water to make a quick jam for the filling. Dish these sweets out to your family and get into the holiday mood!
2. Oatmeal Soda Bread with Apricots
Do you like raisin soda bread? You are going to be obsessed with this oatmeal soda bread with dried apricots, then!
This is a sweet bread where you can scale back on your sugar intake. In this recipe, the sweetness of dried apricots swaps white sugar for a bit of honey.
Have a slice of this bread for breakfast. Enjoy it with your coffee, with a bit of butter, and scarf it down.
3. Chicken Tagine
Prepare for a flavor explosion with this chicken tagine! It’s really worth savoring the rich, spice-infused sauce used to braise the chicken.
Create your own spice mix to get the correct amount of flavors. This mix is called ras el hanout, and you most likely already have the spices in your pantry.
The dried apricots pair perfectly with the spicy sauce and savory chicken.
4. Sour Cream Coffee Cake
You can’t beat a nice, moist slice of cake. This sour cream coffee cake, with its irresistible cinnamon spiced dried fruit and nut filling, is especially sweet and nutty.
This recipe for easy Bundt cake is perfect for an afternoon treat. If you serve up a slice to your guests, they’ll be begging to come back really soon!
5. Apricot Bars
Need to grab something and go? Why not snatch up one of these fruity apricot bars!
For those busy mornings or as a quick and tasty dessert, they’re a great snack. They feature a sweet apricot jam filling, a buttery shortcrust topping, pecans, and toasted coconut.
The dried fruit makes the jam so easy to make and so good. You can also cut back on sugar because of the fruit’s sweetness!
6. Apricot Cookies
If you want a fruity and chocolatey treat that’s out of this world, reach for these apricot cookies. It’s so hard to stop with just one!
Chewy dried apricots combine with rich dark chocolate and crunchy almonds for one seriously delicious combo. Remember to dip only half of each cookie in melted chocolate for cookies that look just as good as they taste.
7. Mascarpone and Dried Apricot Tart
Satisfy your cravings with this light, creamy, and easy-to-make summer dessert. With its creamy texture and fresh, sweet pairing of fresh mint and rehydrated dried apricots, a slice of this mascarpone and dried apricot tart is guaranteed to hit the spot.
It is the ideal dessert to have under the sunshine.
8. Apricot Kuchen
If you’ve never had it, “kuchen” is just the German word for “cake.” This apricot kuchen, with its wonderful sugar crust and delicious chunks of dried apricot, makes for a quick, easy, and comforting dessert on any weeknight.
You’re definitely going to want to serve it warm for that extra bit of comfort. Yum!
9. White Chocolate, Coconut, and Apricot Balls
With this recipe, you don’t even have to turn on the oven! These easy, delicious, no-bake white chocolate, coconut, and apricot balls can be ready in about 10 minutes.
These are great to make with the kids. There’s no heat involved, so their hands will be safe, and they are bound to enjoy rolling these little balls!
10. Quick and Easy Dried Apricot Jam
Are you short on jam? All you need to do is get a hold of those dried apricots hanging out in your pantry to create this quick and easy apricot jam.
With a bold, delicious flavor, it only takes a few minutes to make. This is also a great gift idea to spread some tasty flavor with your friends and family!
Boiling the fruit in water and stirring in some sugar is all it takes.
11. Traditional Lamb Tagine with Apricots
This lamb tagine is traditionally prepared in a two-part clay cooking vessel common in North Africa. It gives the dish a lovely sweetness and texture.
The clay helps slowly cook the food, infusing it with flavor. Of course, the more flavor, the better, so be sure to add some pistachios for extra crunch and parsley for color.
12. Healthy Quinoa Salad with Spinach and Apricots
For a tasty change of pace, try out this healthy quinoa salad with spinach and dried apricots when you next feel like a salad. To clean out your leftover pantry ingredients, you might call this kind of salad a “pantry salad.”
Just like that, with some pecans, spinach, quinoa, and dried apricots, you have a nutritious, delicious, and healthy dish.
13. Chocolate Apricot Balls
To make these chocolate apricot balls, all you’ll need is a few minutes and three ingredients. In water, soak dried almonds and apricots before adding them to a food processor and blending.
After rolling the paste into small balls, slather them in chocolate. Decorate the balls with a sliver of dried apricot when the chocolate has set for an appealing look!
14. Cinnamon Granola with Apricot and Almond
You’re going to start every morning off right when you wake up knowing you can have this granola! Maple syrup ties everything together to make for the ideal cereal.
Cinnamon granola combines crunchy almonds and sweet, chewy apricots. You won’t want another bowl of store-bought granola after having just one bite of this granola!
15. Almond Apricot Biscotti
Your coffee break just isn’t complete without a biscotti! With this almond apricot biscotti recipe, you’ll always be ready.
They’re crispy, sweet, and so scrumptious that you won’t be able to resist having more than one. Store these biscotti in your freezer, allowing you to grab some to have with your coffee.
These little fellas are perfect for dunking!
16. Slow Cooker Apricot Chicken
You’ll want to make this just for the smell. This slow-cooked apricot chicken will make your house smell absolutely divine.
It’ll taste just as good as it smells, too! As they cook slowly in the chicken broth, the dried apricots will become full, juicy, and amazingly tender.
Also, the chicken will become so tender, it’ll melt in your mouth!
17. Pork Chops with Apricot Brandy Sauce
These pork chops with apricot brandy sauce provide a terrific balance of sweet and savory flavors. The amazing sauce smothering the pork chops is fantastically complex in its deliciousness.
It only takes 20 minutes to make these tasty pork chops in their sweet sauce, and a splash of fruity and woodsy brandy brings an amazing depth of flavor that soaks into the dried apricots!
18. Apricot Fruitcake
Want to start off the holiday season with a bang? Bake this apricot fruitcake to get those Christmas festivities going!
The colors alone just scream “Christmas!” Want to take things up a notch?
Adding some glacé cherries and mixed fruit to your fruitcake really adds to the color! Because there aren’t any spices or molasses, the dried apricots and fruits really get to shine, which sounds yummy to me!
19. Apricot Ginger Salmon with Almond and Thyme Rice Pilaf
If you want to dish up a delicious and healthy meal, you need this apricot ginger salmon with almond and thyme rice pilaf. The sweet and salty apricot marinade is so flavorful, you’re going to want to eat it with a spoon.
It’s drizzled all over a salmon filet before baking. Finally, you can complete this delicious and healthy meal with some roasted carrots and a thyme rice pilaf.
20. Eggplant and Lentil Apricot Curry
This yummy winter-warmer combines eggplant and lentil with apricot curry. A light touch of lemon and mint adds a welcome freshness to this tasty curry, which is made even better with the sweetness from the dried apricots that complements the coconut yogurt.
Don’t forget the naan, though, so you can mop up all the deliciousness!
21. Dried Apricot and Blue Cheese Canapes with Walnuts
If you need a tasty bite to share, try these dried apricot and blue cheese canapés with walnuts at your next party. These simple, elegant, bite-sized delights are so easy to eat up.
Watch how quickly these canapés disappear from the plate, especially if you garnish them with rosemary. Tasty!
22. Apricot Coconut Scones
It’s just not possible to enjoy a nice cup of tea without a fluffy scone. These apricot coconut scones are truly outstanding.
Chunks of sweet dried apricots fill these tender coconut scones. You’ll certainly want to gobble one up while they’re warm with a bit of butter.
Don’t forget that cup of tea, though!
23. Curried Chickpea Apricot Stew
Need a vegetarian stew for dinner? Here’s a dish packed with Moroccan-inspired spices, vegetables, and chickpeas, and naturally sweetened with fruity dried apricots.
With its toasty, warm spices, this curried chickpea apricot stew will keep you nice and toasty on those chilly weeknights. You’ll want this toasty treat every time it gets chilly!
24. Dried Apricot and Almond Cake
You’ll want to use this cake as a show-stopper! It’s an almond cake that includes dried apricots and comes with an orange and almond drizzle.
It features candied seeds, almonds, and orange zest as a topping. In addition to a crown of maple candied seeds that takes this dessert up a notch, a ground almond and polenta sponge gives the cake a fantastic texture.
The tangy, sweet burst of the dried apricots will make every slice absolutely scrumptious.
25. Perfect Oatmeal Cookies with Dried Apricots
Warm, fresh, and straight from the oven, you’ll find that it’s hard to say no to these oatmeal cookies with dried apricot, since they make for some of the greatest homemade cookies around. How could anyone resist?
This is a match made in heaven with zingy dried apricots and hearty oats. Next time you have a cup of tea, grab one of these homemade oatmeal cookies to dunk in it!