A colorful side dish of cranberries with roasted beets and dried apricots simmered in a sweetened apple cider/orange juice broth. A delicious addition to holiday meals and a terrific way to use farm share beets that gets the whole family to dig in.
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New photos for 2015, same tasty recipe! |
I'll freely admit I'm a fan of the can. Not the jellied cranberry sauce (though I'm sure it has its uses). I have no issue, however, with canned whole berry cranberry sauce. It's fine. Want a recipe for a doctored up can of cranberry sauce? Here's my Semi-homemade Cranberry Pineapple Pecan Salad.
I also love cranberry-orange relish, and cranberry-apple sauce. Whole Foods made a cranberry-beet-apricot dish on their salad bar years ago that my mom re-created. I decided to combine all of those into this side. It's sweet but not too sweet, tangy but not too out there. And the color is freakishly vibrant.
For more recipes using apples or apple cider, please see my Apples/Apple Cider Recipes Collection. For more recipes using beets, please see my Beet Recipes Collection. For more recipes using cranberries, please see my Cranberry Recipe Collection. This is the only recipe in the Apricot Recipe Collection so don't bother clicking over there. These collections are part of the Visual Recipe Index by Ingredient, a resource for folks like me eating locally and seasonally from the farm share, the farmer's market, and seasonal abundance. I've got even more recipe ideas on my Pinterest boards, follow me there to see them. I'm also sharing new recipes on my FB page so check that out as well. Want to know how to use this blog?