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It's in season where I live and after making a batch of strawberry/rhubarb compote, I'd like to try something using rhubarb in savory dishes.  Anyone have favorites for this?

Sophie Grigson makes a rhubarb relish (baked rhubarb, chili, scallions, cilantro) and serves it with grilled mackerel. Surprisingly good.

The only other savory dish with rhubarb that I know of is rhubarb khoresh, a middle eastern stew. Nice, but it can be very tart, as it's made without sugar.

There is a recipe in Jamie at Home by Jamie Oliver called "My favorite hot and sour rhubarb and crispy pork with noodles" and I've wanted to make it since I saw it in the book.  It looks insanely good.

We have enjoyed this recipe for Pork Tenderloin with Spiced Rhubarb Chutney for many years. The chutney is very good.  And, as the recipe says, it can be served with chicken, duck or lamb as well.  (This recipe is not from a cookbook, so hope it's ok to post it here.)

Laura - it's fine to post links to sites like Epicurious for recipes.  We are adding links to Epicurious ourselves, from the newly indexed Bon Appétit magazines.  If you check through the magazine recipes you will see Recipe online links next to recipes that are on Epicurious or BonAppetit.com.  We are also adding links to recipes from cookbooks where they are up officially e.g. the Ottotlenghi Plenty recipes which were in the Guardian UK.

By coincidence Lynn Andriani has a post on the Oprah blog about savory uses of rhubarb.  The chicken with baked rhubarb from EYB member ae.bell, who also posted a link earlier, looks particularly enticing.

Hi, I've recently had risotto with rhubarb, topped with roasted pigeon. It was absolutely delicious. I don't have a recipe as such, because I had it in a lovely restaurant on holidays in the South of Germany.

Jeanne

Ooh, that sounds so good.  I found a recipe on Food52 though no idea how good it is.  It's not in the EYB index as Food52 only want us to index recipes that have been tested.

I prepared a rhubarb and pancetta pizza for my husband on his birthday.  It was fairly good, but I found the rhubarb mostly imparted a sour note, rather than playing up the complex flavors I associate with rhubarb.

tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/rhubarb-and-pancetta-pizza/