Cranberry-Pomegranate Relish
Updated June 6, 2024

- Total Time
- 10 minutes
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Ingredients
- 12ounces fresh cranberries (3 cups)
- ⅓cup honey, or to taste
- ¾cup chopped pistachios
- ¾cup pomegranate seeds
Preparation
- Step 1
Place cranberries and honey in a food processor. Pulse until chopped (but not too finely), then taste and stir in more honey if needed. At this point, the relish can be refrigerated for up to 24 hours before serving. If the liquid separates, give it a stir.
- Step 2
Stir pistachios and pomegranate seeds into cranberry mixture and serve.
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I agree. Fresh cranberry relish is great. I prefer to chop by hand with a biscuit cutter. The texture is better, though it takes more time and is tedious. You can do so much with this to change it up-cinnamon (Penzey’s Ceylon is my favorite), ginger, grapefruit, apple. I also leave out the nuts sometimes. Everyone always loves it. And true, it is fabulous with yogurt the next day.
Tried it with lots of arugula and goat cheese on a warm turkey sandwich. I imagine it would work just as well as a salad!
Absolutely delicious. And it keeps well in the fridge (I kept the nuts and pomegranate pips separate) -- I'm on the third day of leftovers. Notes: Plain honey just added sweetness, so I added about a teaspoon of manuka honey from New Zealand, which added a nice depth of flavor. I was fortunate to have some large fresh cranberries left over from a grower who was selling at the neighborhood farmers market and just topped them off with store-bought bagged berries; they worked well together.
We made it exactly as written and it was excellent. Simple so got two guys with autism to make this as their contribution for thanksgiving. Will make again. Also made the Cranberry-Orange Relish, with this one the real winner because it was tarter and prettier. Also great with ice cream!
This was way too bitter for us, even doubling the amount of honey. We prefer cooked cranberry to raw. Maybe our cranberries weren’t great, they look white on the inside, very different from the photo.
Never thought I'd like another relish as much as Martha Rose Shulman's classic, but this relish is excellent and perfect for Canadian Thanksgiving, when fresh pomegranates are widely available. My family also loved it.
