Create this fresh cranberry relish with nuts for your holiday gathering. People will think it is the best relish they have ever tasted.
I make a raw cranberry salad with oranges and apples for Thanksgiving every year. My friends and family always request it.
I usually double the recipe and share it with friends and neighbors. They await this for their meal each year. Yes, that is a lot of cranberrychutney since this recipe makes 8 cups.
This is truly the best cranberry relish with pecans that I have ever had! It is also tasty when you make it with walnuts, but it works without nuts at all, too.
Cranberry Relishwith Nuts Recipe
You will love this cranberry sauce recipe because:
no cooking is involved
can be made with or without nuts
you will get so many compliments and requests for the recipe
goes well with all sorts of dishes
Plus it is the perfect use for a bag of cranberries.
This Thanksgiving recipe is so easy to make! It is the perfect make-ahead side dish, as the flavors blend together nicely when made a day or two in advance.
Chop the cranberry in a food processor and place in a mixing bowl.
Core and the apples, then process them into small pieces. Move to the bowl.
Peel and section the orange and chop it in the food processor for a very short time.
If using fresh mandarin oranges, peel and section, then add them to the orange above. Otherwise, drain the can and add directly to the mixing bowl.
Add the entire can of crushed pineapple to the bowl.
Stir all the fruit together until well combined.
Mix in the sugar.
If using nuts, chop and stir them in.
Refrigerate until ready to serve.
The same preparation technique is used for Cranberry Salsa.
The diagram below shows you how I make this recipe layer by later in a 2 Qt Glass Bowl. This is the bowl I refrigerate the relish in.
This is what the recipe looks like, all stirred up. Can you believe how much of the red from the cranberry comes through when it is mixed? Yum!
Crazy for Cranberries
Cranberry season is one of my favorites of the year. I cannot seem to get enough cranberry. I have also made Cranberry Pepper Jam.
This cranberry-orange apple relish goes with just about anything. I have added it to a salad, eat it for breakfast, and put it alongside various casseroles. You can even eat it with Cranberry Muffins.
My sister and I text each other whenever we find a new food or dish that goes well with it. It is not too tart or sweet, so it goes with many different foods.
I made several batches of this in November and December. This Fresh Cranberry Relish is perfect for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
What would you eat this cranberry orange pineapple relish with? Check out my Cranberry Apple Crisp.
Yield: 8 cups
This is the best cranberry relish, made with fresh cranberries, pecans, and other fruit.
Prep Time20 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Ingredients
1 bag fresh cranberries (12 oz)
1 fuji apple
1 granny smith apple
1 orange or tangerine
1 small can of mandarin oranges or 2-3 fresh mandarin oranges
There is an important difference between cranberry sauce and cranberry relish and that is that cranberry relish is made from raw ingredients blended in a food processor (it's more fresh and tart tasting) and cranberry sauce is cooked and often much sweeter than relish.
Try reducing the sauce down even further so more of the liquid cooks off and the mixture thickens. If that doesn't work, add a thickener like gelatin, pectin or a cornstarch slurry (cornstarch whisked into juice or water). Let the sauce cool before refrigerating to completely set.
If you don't have maple syrup (pancake syrup WILL NOT do, y'all), try honey or a more neutral sweetener like agave syrup, brown rice syrup, or even simple syrup. All of these syrupy ingredients are a perfect quick fix for bitter cranberry sauce.
There's no cooking involved, just using a grinder or a food processor to grind up and mix together raw cranberries, tart green apples, a large seedless orange, and sugar. It's amazing how good it is! Great with roast turkey, or for leftovers on turkey sandwiches.
Best Whole Berry: Ocean Spray Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce
For those who prefer a whole berry sauce, Ocean Spray was the clear winner. Not only did editors love it for the freshness, texture, and flavor, but several also noted that it was the most visually appealing of the bunch.
And one last overlooked remedy for cranberry sauce: a pinch of salt. While you won't taste it, salt helps equalize the sweet-tart flavor of your cranberry sauce while making it a better pairing for the rest of your savory sides and, of course, the turkey.
In addition to making sure to cook for a good while to let the water escape and the sauce reduce, it is possible that your runny sauce may be lacking in sugar. According to My Recipes, cranberries contain a type of fiber called pectin that they let out when crushed and cooked.
Reduce heat to a low boil and cook for 10 minutes, until the berries have all burst. Remove from heat. Serve warm, room temperature, or chilled. Cranberry sauce will thicken as it cools.
Adding a teaspoon or two of fresh lemon or orange zest, a tablespoon of chopped candied peel, or even a splash of juice to your canned sauce will brighten flavors and bring in some homemade flavor.
If you'd prefer, you could use simple syrup, coconut sugar, cane sugar, sugar-free sweetener, maple syrup, or raw honey. You could also omit the added sugar and make an unsweetened cranberry juice if you'd prefer. Fresh Citrus: oranges and lemons add sweet and acid to balance the cranberries tartness.
But why? Ocean Spray says this is to get the cranberry sauce out in one intact piece. “The rounded part of the can that looks like the bottom has an air bubble in it,” Ocean Spray's representative explains. The bubble is there so you can “break the seal the sauce makes with the can.”
The flavors of oranges and cranberries sing joyfully together! Their health benefits also complement each other as well! This relish provides an excellent source of fiber and vitamin C that will leave your belly full and body happy!
Gentleman's Relish is a British commercial brand of anchovy paste. It is also known as Patum Peperium (meaning 'pepper paste' in Latin). Created in 1828 by an Englishman named John Osborn, it is a savoury paste with a salty and slightly fishy taste, and contains salted anchovies (minimum 60%), butter, herbs and spices.
Cranberry sauce can be served either as a gooey liquid or as a solid jelly. The jellied version is solid enough to retain the shape of the container in which it's placed whereas the sauce version is much more fluid.
Cranberry sauce can be served either as a gooey liquid or as a solid jelly. The jellied version is solid enough to retain the shape of the container in which it's placed whereas the sauce version is much more fluid. The difference between the fluid sauce and the jelly versions comes down to pectin.
Here are a few reasons why Cranberry Relish is the way to go: It's sweet, a little tart, and totally refreshing – almost like a palate cleaner. It's SO quick and easy to make! It can be prepared in just 5 minutes!
Top your favorite cracker with whipped cream cheese and a dollop of Cranberry Relish for the ultimate speedy starter. If you have a little more time you can try this Three-Ingredient Cranberry Relish Appetizer with white cheddar cheese.
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