Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, cranberry apricot relish with ginger & orange zest. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lilja told me it's a very easy dish that's made by blending cranberries, oranges, and sugar. It's something they serve on their Thanksgiving dinner table every year, instead of the traditional cranberry sauce. Apples, cranberries, and crystallized ginger make a delicious sweet-tart combo for holiday dinners, sandwiches, or adding to Apricot/Cranberry Chutney.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have cranberry apricot relish with ginger & orange zest using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cranberry Apricot Relish with Ginger & Orange Zest:
- Make ready 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- Make ready 1/4 cup minced shallots (onions will do in a pinch, but shallots are way better for this purpose)
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon finely minced fresh ginger root (or 1/2 teaspoons ginger powder)
- Make ready 1 (12 oz.) package fresh cranberries
- Make ready 1 orange, zested first then juiced (you can use Navel, Valencia, or Blood orange)
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- Prepare water to make up the difference between orange juice squeezed and 3/4 cups liquid
- Take 12 dried apricots, cut into roughly 1/4" pieces
Preparation In a food processor chop fine the gingerroot and the orange, add the cranberries. The lively, clean flavor of fresh ginger is compatible with most fruits. In the market, look for ginger that is hard and heavy, with an unbroken peel that is thin, light colored, smooth and shiny. To prepare ginger, peel it with a vegetable peeler.
Instructions to make Cranberry Apricot Relish with Ginger & Orange Zest:
- In a large saucepan or deep saute pan, saute the shallots and ginger in the oil over medium heat until the shallots are translucent.
- Add the cranberries, sugar, liquid (all the juice from the orange plus the water), and salt and turn the heat up to medium high.
- Bring the relish to a gentle boil and keep it at a boil for 3 or 4 minutes while the cranberries pop, stirring occasionally. Pop any unpopped cranberries by pressing them against the sides of the pot with the back of a spatula, stir them back into the relish and let the relish reduce another 2 to 3 minutes over medium high heat, stirring occasionally.
- Remove the relish from the heat and cool for 10 to 15 minutes before stirring in the orange zest and dried apricot pieces.
- Enjoy! :)
This uncooked cranberry relish is very refreshing with a unique ginger-citrus flavour. Add cranberry-ginger mixture to citrus fruit in bowl and stir in sugar, lime juice and zest; stir until sugar is dissolved. Taste and add more sugar if you feel it's necessary. Holiday and Thanksgiving Cranberry Relish recipe. Fresh cranberries ground up with apples and orange.
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