Nigel Slater’s winter citrus recipes

Winter citrus adds colour to the dark days of February. Refresh your plate with lemon, grapefruit and blood orange

Citrus fruit makes the heart sing, it brightens, refreshes and uplifts: a thick, bittersweet orange curd; a salad of bitter leaves and pink grapefruit made piquant with tiny capers; a light, cooling ceviche of sea bass and blood orange, or cold-weather main dish of Italian boiling sausage, slow-cooked potatoes and lemons. There is no better time for those clean, vivid citrus flavours than now – frost on the hedges, the scent of lemon zest in the air.