Bright, tart, and abounding in festive cheer, this cranberry orange relish recipe calls for only four ingredients and can be made up to a week ahead of time!
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Why I Love This Recipe
This cranberry orange relish is just the perfect amount of sweet while letting the tart cranberry flavor shine. My mom makes it every year. She’s made it for so many people, who all love it. In my opinion, no holiday meal would be complete without a bowl of it on the table!
The amounts of fruit are very flexible. Once I had lots of cranberries, but not so many apples and oranges, so I made a cranberry-heavy batch instead. I did need to increase the sweetener.
Ingredients Needed
- Cranberries — Should be raw (fresh).
- Apples — Preferably organic, or even better, local!
- Oranges — Preferably organic.
- Sweetener of choice — Honey, Rapadura, Sucanat, maple syrup, evaporated cane juice, etc.
Supplies Needed
- Food processor — Or a manual or electric grinder. If you only have a blender, you can use that too, but blend small batches of fruit at a time and use brief pulses of blending to prevent liquefying the fruit.
How to Make Cranberry Orange Relish
- Wash fresh cranberries. Remove any bad cranberries.
- Wash and core the apples, leaving the peel on, and cut into wedges.
- Peel the oranges and cut into wedges.
- Pulse all ingredients in batches in the food processor or food grinder until finely chopped.
- Mix the batches together until evenly distributed.
- Add sweetener, to taste.
- Store in the refrigerator overnight to let the flavors mingle. Enjoy!
Serving Ideas
- With holiday fare such as turkey, green bean casserole, and rolls on Thanksgiving or Christmas Day.
- As an alternative to cranberry sauce.
- On yogurt or milk kefir with granola for breakfast.
- Spread on homemade sourdough bread instead of jam.
- Loaded onto sourdough waffles for a special holiday breakfast.
- On your morning bowl of oatmeal (pictured above) or porridge.
- Or, go the extra step and turn it into fermented cranberry relish!
Recipe FAQs
Make-Ahead Instructions
You can make this homemade cranberry relish up to a week ahead-of-time simply by following the instructions above, as written!
How to Store Cranberry Orange Relish
Keep it in the refrigerator and use up within about a week to ten days. If you’d like it to last longer, try fermenting it following my instructions for fermented cranberry relish here! The fermented recipe will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks.
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Cranberry Orange Relish
This cranberry sauce is bright, tart, and just the perfect amount of sweet. My mom makes it every year. She’s made it for so many people, who all love it. In my opinion, no holiday meal would be complete without a bowl of it on the table!
Ingredients
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1 to 2
pounds
cranberries
raw -
4
apples -
4
oranges -
1/4 to 1/2
cup
sweetener
of your choice – honey, Rapadura, Sucanat, maple syrup, evaporated cane juice, etc.
Instructions
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Wash cranberries.
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Remove any bad cranberries.
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Wash and core the apples, leaving the peel on, and cut into wedges.
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Peel the oranges and cut into wedges.
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Chop all ingredients in batches in the food processor or food grinder.
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Mix all batches together until evenly distributed.
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Add sweetener, to taste.
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Store in the refrigerator overnight to let the flavors mingle.
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Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Keep your cranberry orange relish in the refrigerator and use up within about a week to ten days. If you’d like it to last longer, try fermenting it following my instructions here! The fermented recipe will keep for several weeks.
Calories from Fat 3
