Recipes to make fresh apricots taste of something?

[calonwyn]

I bought a huge punnet of apricots from Lidl yesterday and they taste of absolutely nothing. Does anyone have any magic recipes that'll bring out their inner apricot-y-ness? Please??

Nigellas summer book has an apricot crumble that is so so summery. Nor exactly it but inspired by it-

Halve yer apricots and put in a single layer cut side down in a baling dish. Make a crumble using golden caster sugar, unsalted butter, plain flour, ground almonds, chopped almonds and pistachios. Delicious

Nigellas summer book has an apricot crumble that is so so summery. Nor exactly it but inspired by it-

Halve yer apricots and put in a single layer cut side down in a baling dish. Make a crumble using golden caster sugar, unsalted butter, plain flour, ground almonds, chopped almonds and pistachios. Delicious

Nigellas summer book has an apricot crumble that is so so summery. Nor exactly it but inspired by it-

Halve yer apricots and put in a single layer cut side down in a baling dish. Make a crumble using golden caster sugar, unsalted butter, plain flour, ground almonds, chopped almonds and pistachios. Delicious

Apricots always taste better cooked in my opinion. Roasted in oven with raspberries in hollow & creme fraiche & Brown sugar.
Or rounds of puff pastry - part cook then put sliced apricots sprinkled with brown sugar - delicious.

I am liking the words unsalted butter and creme fraiche and ground almonds - thank you!

I agree with goshhhhh. Cooking is the way to way to go. You could make a compote by lightly poaching them with a little water and sugar or I particularly like this apricot and frangipane tart.

Just made some individual crumbles in some of the eight thousand ceramic ramekins in the kitchen, with ground almonds in the crumble mix, yum! Thanks for the ideas - I still have half a punnet of apricots to go...

Bake them - delicious. Halve and stone them, lay in a dish cut-side up, put a dot of butter in each half, sprinkle several tablespoons of caster sugar over the top plus some flaked almonds if you have some, and bake in the oven 180-200 degrees for about 30 mins. Transforms tasteless mush (raw apricots) into something wonderful.

Wait until they are really ripe and then try apricot ice cream