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Healthy Apricot Recipes

Find healthy, delicious apricot recipes, from the food and nutrition experts at EatingWell.

Mini Meat & Cheese Board

For a satisfying and quick snack or dessert, assemble your own cheese board for one, adorned with apricots, almonds and carrots.

Fruit Triangles with Honey Orange Dipping Sauce

Phylllo-filled fruit triangles dipped in an orange- and honey-flavored, yogurt-based sauce--this dessert takes only 40 minutes to prepare.

Fruited Oatmeal Cookies

Add dried apricots, currants, and chopped walnuts to oatmeal cookies for a delicious treat.

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Double Apricot Bread

This low-fat quick bread has twice the apricot flavor! Canned apricots are blended and mixed in to flavor the bread while snipped dried apricots add texture to each bite. Try a slice for breakfast or for a late afternoon snack.

Smoky Nut-Stuffed Apricots

Dried apricots are stuffed with provolone cheese and pecan halves, then wrapped in bacon, baked, and served warm for a fresh take on a favorite appetizer.

Apricot-Cranberry Panettone

A panettone is an Italian sweet bread or fruitcake that is typically served during the holidays. This version--featuring apricots, apricot brandy and dried cranberries--can be eaten any time of the year, for dessert or as a snack.

Chipotle Grilled Pork Chops with Grilled Apricot Salsa

Your grill does double duty in this meal! Grilled apricots take center stage in a zesty salsa which tastes delicious with the chipotle flavored grilled pork chops.

Apricot-Ginger Pinwheels

These pinwheel cookies are filled with a yummy apricot-ginger filling and rolled in chopped pistachios before they are sliced and baked.

Apricot Baked Rice Pudding

This pleasantly sweet, Indian-style rice pudding recipe is smooth and custardy with a hint of cardamom. Cardamom loses its flavor quickly, so purchase whole, decorticated cardamom and use it within a few months.

Spiced Bran Muffins with Dried Apricots

The daily recommendation for grains is to make half of them whole-grains. These bran muffins--flavored with banana, apricot and delicious spices--are a tasty and creative way to incorporate whole-grains into your diet.

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Fruit and Nut Twists

The homemade dough used in this recipe is flavored with apricots, almonds, honey and a touch of aromatic cardamom.

Cornbread-Stuffed Pork Chops

Snipped dried apricots add a pleasant hint of sweetness to the cornbread stuffing.

Apricot Yogurt Delight

Don't think you have time for dessert? Try this four-ingredient fruity special. It's super quick to prepare.

Brandied Apricot Loaves

This quick bread--flavored with brandied apricots and almonds and topped with an apricot drizzle--makes a great snack during the holidays.

Apricot-Pecan Muffins

Apricots, oats, pecans, and a touch of allspice are a winning combination in these easy-to-make muffins.

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Spring Salad with Apricots, Almonds and Cilantro

Packed with flavor, this salad is full of fruit, vegetables and fresh herbs. Sprnkle with almonds for an extra crunch.

Cherry-Apricot Freeze

This easy frozen fruit dessert recipe has very little sugar. The sweetness comes mostly from the fruit.

Apricot Chicken Kabobs

This chicken skewer recipe gets a tantalizing zing from Jamaican jerk seasoning and apricot fruit.

Grilled Fennel-Rubbed Pork Chops & Apricots

Toasting and grinding your own spices for a flavorful rub is the quickest, easiest way to build surefire flavor in this easy pork chop recipe. Serve with a simple tossed salad and some roasted sweet potatoes to round out the meal.

Rice Cracker Trail Mix

This trail mix combines healthy nuts and dried fruits with crispy rice crackers. Crystallized ginger provides an unexpected bite. Look for crystallized ginger with the spices at your supermarket.