22 Best Rhubarb Recipes
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You know the season is arriving when beautiful pink rhubarb stalks line produce shelves at the grocery store. If you need inspiration for using these tasty vegetables, here you’ll find delicious rhubarb recipes, both sweet and savory, that will help you get the most out of this beautiful season!
Below, you will find ideas for everything from tasty rhubarb desserts to scrumptious savory dishes. Get inspired by the season with these easy-to-make recipes.
Plus, read more about how to buy and store rhubarb and learn about its health benefits!
If rhubarb is catching your eye at the farmers market or grocery store, this collection of recipes will inspire you to make the most of this tasty, beautiful spring season.
How to Buy Rhubarb
Here’s what you need to know to make the most of rhubarb: Look for thin, red-pink crisp stalks; they will have the best texture. If the stalks are floppy, this is a good indication that they were picked too long ago.
How to Store Rhubarb:
When you get home, wrap the rhubarb stalks in plastic and refrigerate for up to one week.
How to Freeze Rhubarb:
You can also freeze rhubarb and enjoy it for months to come. If you have more than you can use, consider freezing it to bring spring flavor all year long. I’ve written a post about How to Freeze Rhubarb, which you may also enjoy reading.
Read on for our favorite ways to enjoy rhubarb. But first, let’s cover the basics!
What is Rhubarb?
Growing in gardens all over the world, this perennial vegetable plant is used in cooking and baking. Resembling long pinkish red and green stalks (a little like celery ribs), it’s most often in season between April and July, depending on where you live.
How does rhubarb taste?
Rhubarb has a tart, almost puckery flavor, which makes it a perfect ingredient for treats to help balance sweetness. But it’s also a delicious savory ingredient in salads, sauces, and condiments.
What to know about rhubarb?
The leaves of rhubarb are poisonous to humans and animals, so be sure to discard them. For more information on rhubarb, read my Rhubarb: How to Grow, Harvest, and Store for more.
Rhubarb Recipes Questions and Tips
Rhubarb is such an easy vegetable to use. No peeling is needed. Remove the leaves (which are poisonous) and trim the ends. The thin out skin of rhubarb breaks down in heat and adds beautiful flavor and color to your dishes!
Rhubarb is an excellent source of vitamin K, an essential vitamin for bone health and blood clotting. A half cup of cooked rhubarb provides more than 1/3 of the recommended dietary intake along with healthy fiber too. It also contains vitamin A that according to WebMD helps fight free radicals that cause skin damage and premature aging.
To store rhubarb, trim and discard the leaves. Wrap unwashed stalks and store in the refrigerator for up to three weeks.
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Best Rhubarb Recipes
Discover a variety of mouthwatering rhubarb recipes that will satisfy your sweet and savory cravings. Get inspired by the flavors of the season.
Rhubarb Upside Down Cake
Celebrate the season with an easy Rhubarb Upside Down Cake. Baked and unmolded, this cake has a mosaic top of rhubarb baked into a brown sugar sauce over a vanilla, cinnamon cake. It's utterly delicious and simple to make.
Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Tart
This Strawberry Rhubarb Tart, or crostata, is an easy, effortless, delicious way to celebrate the season. Whether using a ready-made or a simple homemade crust, it’s a recipe brimming with sunshine flavor and a hint of mint; and is incredibly simple to make.
Season's Best Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble
A Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble, perfect for the season, is packed with brilliant colors of strawberry and rhubarb. And topped with a crunchy, cinnamon, buttery crumble.
Easy Chicken Cutlets with Rhubarb Sauce
"Sweet white balsamic vinegar balances tart rhubarb in a simple pan sauce for this quick chicken cutlets recipe."
Strawberry Rhubarb Parfaits
These easy Yogurt Strawberry Rhubarb Parfaits are early summer's perfect treat. With that sweet-tangy combination we love, these healthy yogurt parfaits are a delightful way to enjoy it.
Rhubarb Cranachan
"A take on a traditional Scottish dessert! Whipped cream, whiskey, poached rhubarb and a sweet crispy oat topping make this cranachan irresistible."
Anytime Rhubarb Almond Cake
Anytime Rhubarb Almond Cake is an easy-to-make, moist, and tender dessert recipe perfect for springtime and rhubarb season. Its delicate almond flavor is complimented by the tangy and slightly sweet taste of rhubarb.
Spring Rhubarb Salad
"A fresh and easy salad packed with colour for the season."
Honey-Butter Pork Chops With Rhubarb Sauce & Herby Peas
"This recipe reads like a list of spring’s MVP (Most Valuable Produce). Thick, juicy pork chops get smothered in a sweet and savory honey-butter and served alongside a spiced rhubarb sauce and herb-laden peas. As contributor Grant Melon writes, this dish is "spring on a plate'."
Rhubarb Muffins with Butter Cinnamon Streusel
Rhubarb Muffins are a delicious springtime and summer treat for breakfast and brunch. Topped with buttery cinnamon streusel, these muffins are soft, tender, and utterly habit-forming!
Strawberry Rhubarb Cake
Strawberry Rhubarb Cake, a favorite seasonal cake recipe. A buttery batter filled with strawberries and rhubarb and flavored with vanilla and nutmeg. Delicious!
Hot Honey Chicken With Rhubarb Butter
"Here’s an example of a savory dinner recipe that makes just as good use of rhubarb as a buttery pie crust does. Homemade honey rhubarb butter is rubbed under the entire skin of a chicken, which infuses the bird with its spring-forward flavor."
Honey Sweetened Rhubarb Fig Jam (pectin-free)
"This naturally sweetened rhubarb jam is made with dried figs and lemon, no water bath canning needed! These lovely spring preserves are fruity and balanced, with floral notes from the honey."
Rhubarb Pie Recipe
This Rhubarb Pie recipe is the essence of spring and the taste of summer to come. It's fresh, bright, fantastically delicious, and just like Grandma used to make.
Rhubarb Cake - A Simple Recipe I Wait for All Year Long
This simple Rhubarb Cake recipe is one I look forward to all year. Packed with rhubarb and simple pantry ingredients, it’s a long-time family recipe we’ve been making for a couple of generations. For us, it’s a delicious summer ritual!
Vegan Strawberry Rhubarb Donuts
Spring is that time of year where Strawberry and Rhubarb season overlap which means it's time for these Vegan Strawberry Rhubarb Donuts! Not only are these baked strawberry donuts easy to make, but they are dairy-free & eggless too!
Strawberry Rhubarb Bars
So delicious with the local rhubarb just coming and the strawberries not far behind.
Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Sauce and pie filling is a perfect summertime treat to have at the ready in your refrigerator. Sweet and tangy and deliciously perfect.
Rhubarb Jam
"This rhubarb jam, pure and simple, with the consistency of apple butter, is a rhubarb lover's delight. This jam also freezes well, but it will probably get eaten up before making it to the freezer. Fabulous!"
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
It’s rhubarb season and very nearly the strawberry season in the Pacific Northwest. Here is a family favorite recipe to celebrate the season. Enjoy.
Strawberry Rhubarb Tart and Mini Galettes
An incredibly easy spring dessert that looks and tastes like you’ve spent hours in the kitchen. It’s not only beautiful, it tastes exactly like spring! The cinnamon and nutmeg bring warmth to the flavors. An easy dish to bring to the spring table.