Basil's Grapefruit Marmalade

Flavor Profile

Our pink and red grapefruits, harvested in Florida and characterized by a strong sweet-bitter contrast, are used to prepare a genuine jam that gives an extra boost to breakfast.  The fruit almost tastes sweetly caramelized with a just a slight hint of the tartness of a fresh grapefruit.  Perfect for breakfast, snacks, or paired with cheeses (goat or cow). Also excellent for making sweets and desserts.

Good Source of Vitamin C, Low Calorie, Fat-Free, Saturated Fat-Free, Cholesterol-Free, and Sodium-Free

Suggestions for Uses

• Make a Grapefruit Gin Basil Fizz Cocktail

• Spread on brie, ricotta, aged, or creamy cheeses like goat's cheese

• Add a spoonful to tarts, muffins, popovers, brioche, or cakes

• Dilute with a little vinegar and olive oil to create a tasty dressing for mixed salads

• Use as a filling for biscuits, donuts, cream puffs, cupcakes, thumbprint cookies, layer in tarts (like lemon bars), or between the layers of a layer cake

• Mix into natural yogurt, ice cream, panna cotta, or whipped cream

• Prepare croutons with cheese and grapefruit jam for a canapé

• Cut cooked chicken into cubes, add it to mixed salad with walnuts, and a light dressing made from grapefruit jam, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar

• Make a sauce with Dijon mustard and white wine vinegar to give salmon, scallops, ham, or pork chops a rich, flavorful glaze

• Spread on a short crust pastry base to prepare delicious tarts with a fresh, citrus flavor.

• Creating butter biscuits with a grapefruit jam filling in the center will make them irresistible and perfect for dunking in tea or coffee

• Mixing grapefruit jam with icing sugar will create a fragrant and colorful icing

• Add a spoonful of grapefruit jam to cocktails like the Gin & Tonic or Moscow Mule for a fruity and refreshing touch

• Freeze with sparkling wine and sugar, scraping as it freezes, for a semi-frozen dessert

• Glaze carrots or parsnips for a bright flavor

• Stir into hot tea

• Add some honey and use it as a vinaigrette for a crab and avocado salad

• Add to a bread-and-butter pudding in place of orange marmalade

• Make a grapefruit mignonette with champagne or sherry vinegar and use it on fresh shucked oysters

• Use it as a base for a dipping sauce for wontons, egg rolls, rangoons, etc.

• On French toast, pancakes, crepes, Dutch baby pancakes, etc.

• Try mixing it in with your chicken marinade for a sweet and sour chicken or duck

• A sticky glaze for chicken drumsticks

• Make a sauce for pork tenderloin

• Glaze a Christmas ham

• Use it in a marinade for chicken

• Make crostini with goat cheese and prosciutto

• Bake a lemon cake and make a glaze with the marmalade

• Add it to the top of a baked brie

• Try using it as a dipping sauce for coconut shrimp or chicken fingers

• Halibut with grapefruit beurre blanc