This easy Cranberry Orange Relish is fresh, vibrant, and easy to make with only three ingredients! The perfect addition to the Thanksgiving table.
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No-cook Fresh Cranberry Orange Relish
This Fresh Cranberry Orange Relish requires no cooking. That’s what keeps it so vibrant and refreshing. A must-have for holiday meals!
We serve two different cranberry sauces with Thanksgiving dinner, a simple cooked one – the recipe on the back of the cranberry bag with just cranberries, water, and sugar – and this fresh relish. I can never decide which I like better so I always take servings of both!
Easy to make with just three ingredients
This Fresh Cranberry Orange Relish is super easy to make with only three ingredients and less than five minutes. It’s probably the quickest, easiest dish on the holiday table!
Fresh Cranberry Relish with a whole orange
This Fresh Cranberry Relish uses a whole orange: pith, peel, and all. Trust me on this. I know, it’s counter-intuitive, we almost always throw the pith away. But the pith adds the perfect hint of bitterness to tame the sweet and sour flavors. It also adds body to the relish.
Don’t want to use the pith? No problem. Just zest the orange, then peel it and throw away the pith.
How to make
- Cut the orange into chunks and remove any seeds.
- Pulse the orange, cranberries, and sugar in a food processor until finely chopped.
- Transfer relish to a covered bowl and refrigerate to allow flavors to blend, at least 2 hours.
So easy!
Make in advance
A time saver on the day of a holiday dinner, this Fresh Cranberry Orange Relish can be made a day or two in advance. Its flavors even improve on resting!
Recipe
Fresh Cranberry Orange Relish
Ingredients
- 1 unpeeled orange cut into chunks and seeded
- 12 ounce cranberries fresh or frozen, rinsed and drained
- ¾ - 1 cup sugar
Instructions
- Cut the orange into chunks and remove any seeds.
- Pulse the orange, cranberries, and sugar in a food processor until finely chopped.
- Transfer relish to a covered bowl and refrigerate to allow flavors to blend, at least 2 hours.
Notes
- Recipe from Ocean Spray
Nutrition
Enjoy, friends!
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Sparado says
My family has been making this for as long as I can remember. We never have canned sauce, I don't even know what it tastes like because I grew up eating this instead!
Kelly says
Our family loves it too! Thank you!
Valentina says
I'm fascinated by using the entire orange. SO cool. I can't wait to give this a try -- I always make a cooked cranberry sauce, so this will be new and fun -- and I'm certain, delicious! 🙂 ~Valentina
Kelly says
We always have both the cooked cranberry sauce and the fresh one on the holiday table. We love them both! It seems counterintuitive to use the pith, but it works! It adds a hint of bitterness that balances the flavors perfectly. Thanks so much, Valentina!
Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says
Funny, but we never had cranberry sauce with Thanksgiving dinner at our house growing up! I feel like I missed out lol. My stepson wanted the cranberry sauce in the cans this year, but now I think I will make this next year so he can see what REAL cranberry sauce is! Looks delicious!
Kelly says
We had the canned cranberry sauce when I was growing up and I even loved it then! Now we make two cranberry sauces every year, the simple one on the back of the bag and this fresh relish. Thanks so much, Kelly!