Fresh summer plums are a wonderful addition to any meal. Whether you eat them out-of-hand, baked into a sweet-scented pie, sliced to top off frozen yogurt or preserved as jam with a beloved family recipe -- plump plums are a definite summer favourite. 

With Canadian plums grown mostly in Ontario and British Columbia, market-fresh plums are available from late July to September. These sweet fruit are also an excellent source of vitamins A, B, and C.

With our delicious plum recipes below, find more reasons to love this juicy fruit!

Summer's best fresh plum recipes

Peachy Plum Galette
This fast-and-easy free-form pie can also be made with either peaches or plums. For the pastry, a packaged pie crust mix is fine.

Plum and Oat Crisp
This crumble-topped fruit dessert contains less than half of the sugar and fat of a traditional crisp. You can make it with other tender fruit as well, such as peaches or apricots. Try it with a scoop of low-fat frozen vanilla yogurt on the side.

Vanilla-Roasted Plums
Use ripe red plums or purple prune plums for this juicy fruit dessert that is just barely sweetened to preserve the fruit flavour. The cooking time will vary depending on the variety, size and ripeness of the plums; check often.

Pork Chops with Blue Plum Sauce
Blue plums make a wonderful sauce for pork. Choose plums that are still firm, or they might fall apart. You may need to adjust the sugar in the sauce depending on the ripeness of the fruit. The amount given is for tart-sweet plums just on the brink of ripeness.

Five Spice Duck With Ginger-Plum Sauce
This easy-to-prepare dish is so posh everyone will be impressed.

Yellow Plum Sauce
This savoury and tart yellow (shiro) plum sauce is lovely served alongside roasted duck, goose or pork, or as a dipping sauce for spring rolls or spareribs. Yellow plums can be very juicy, so the cooking time can vary; keep your eye on the sauce as it reduces.