Recipe: Appetizing Cranberry Apricot Relish with Ginger & Orange Zest

Cranberry Apricot Relish with Ginger & Orange Zest.

You can have Cranberry Apricot Relish with Ginger & Orange Zest using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cranberry Apricot Relish with Ginger & Orange Zest

1. You need of vegetable oil.
2. It's of minced shallots (onions will do in a pinch, but shallots are way better for this purpose).
3. You need of finely minced fresh ginger root (or 1/2 teaspoons ginger powder).
4. Prepare of package fresh cranberries.
5. You need of orange, zested first then juiced (you can use Navel, Valencia, or Blood orange).
6. Prepare of sugar.
7. You need of kosher salt.
8. It's of water to make up the difference between orange juice squeezed and 3/4 cups liquid.
9. You need of dried apricots, cut into roughly 1/4" pieces.

Cranberry Apricot Relish with Ginger & Orange Zest instructions

1. In a large saucepan or deep saute pan, saute the shallots and ginger in the oil over medium heat until the shallots are translucent..
2. Add the cranberries, sugar, liquid (all the juice from the orange plus the water), and salt and turn the heat up to medium high..
3. 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..
4. Remove the relish from the heat and cool for 10 to 15 minutes before stirring in the orange zest and dried apricot pieces..
5. Enjoy! :).