Recipe: Apple Cranberry Relish

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Every winter I make a double batch of this cranberry relish. Not only does it give turkey a reason to be eaten, it's also good with ham, pork, and chicken. I never used to like fruit on my meat before I made this stuff.

This is my recipe, but I mostly just wrote it down so I didn't have to keep interpolating between the two recipes I routinely mashed together every year. Because every year I looked at those two recipes—neither of which calls for apples—and was like, "Do I peel these apples??" Yeah, dummy, you do. But you—you, the reader!—don't have to! So consider this a loose set of suggestions. As written, it makes a thick and chunky cranberry sauce that's slightly sweet, with a bonus hit of orange, apple, and cinnamon that'll make your kitchen smell amazing.

APPROXIMATE INGREDIENTS:

2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries, rinsed
1 apple, peeled, cored, and diced
zest from one orange (about 1/2 Tablespoon)
1/4 cup orange juice
10 oz can mandarin oranges, drained
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

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