Easy Cranberry Chutney
By Kath Dedon
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Cranberry Chutney has been on our Thanksgiving table for many years; I know I would get many complaints if I ever omitted it. It’s the perfect condiment with roast turkey, but it’s just as fantastic with a holiday ham!
My dad always liked jellied cranberry sauce. Mom bought it just for him; she opened both ends of the can, pushed the jelled sauce out and cut it into slices. Dad got to eat most of it because the rest of us preferred the whole berry sauce, which was also a part of our Thanksgiving dinner.
Like anything else, homemade cranberry sauce is much better than the canned variety. This recipe is adapted from one in Yumana’s Table, by Yumana Devi. I like the fact that it’s sweetened with pure maple syrup instead of sugar or corn syrup. It uses only 4 ingredients and is super easy to make. Once made, it will keep up to a week in the refrigerator, so you can easily make it a day or two before the big Turkey Day!
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Cranberry Chutney
(Adapted from a recipe in Yumana’s Table by Yumana Devi)
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Makes about 3 cups, and doubles easily if you’re serving a crowd.
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1 (12-ounce) bag of cranberries
2 large apples
2 large oranges
1 cup pure maple syrup
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1. Zest the oranges.
Zesting the oranges is quick and easy with a Microplane zester.
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2. Wash and drain the cranberries and put them in a pot. (My 3 quart pot is the perfect size.)
3. Peel, core, and chop the apples, and add them to the pot.
4. Juice the oranges. Add the juice and the orange zest to the pot.
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5. Add the maple syrup.
Everything is in the pot, ready to cook!
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6. Bring the chutney to a boil over medium-high heat.
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7. Reduce heat to medium. Cook, uncovered, for about 15 minutes 30 – 45 minutes, until the cranberries have popped, the apples have cooked down, and the chutney has thickened a bit. Stir it occasionally while it’s cooking.
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8. Cool and transfer to a bowl; cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
In the kitchen with Kath 
Mmmm that looks BEAUTIFUL! And tasty 🙂
Thank you, Laura! 🙂
This looks delicious! I always make homemade cranberry sauce/chutney, but I’ve never thought of using apples and maple syrup. What a great new recipe for me to try! Thank you for sharing. Here’s to a week of baking, cooking and family!
Thanks for your comment, Monet! Happy Thanksgiving!
Now THIS sounds good. I’ve never made a chutney before, this sounds so much better than what I imagined a chutney would be. This would be perfect over turkey and a biscuit!
Thanks for your comment, Dionne! I haven’t tried many kinds of chutneys, but this one is so easy, and so good! And, mmm….over turkey and a biscuit….what a great idea!
My daughter made this for Thanksgiving dinner and it was delicious. It will be on our Thanksgiving menu from now on.
I really appreciate your comment, Ellen! I’m so glad you and your family enjoyed it. 🙂
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I tried it last night with potato latkes in place of apple sauce. It was excellent!!
Note that you should probably use a sweet which that breaks down easily when baked, such as Red Delicious or MacIntosh. Sour apples, like Granny Smith, keep their shape when baked, and therefore don’t add enough sweetness to the chutney. I used Royal Gala last night, but it was closer to green than red, and it didn’t break down all that much after 15 minutes of boiling.
Just the same, the chutney was so good that we’re going to replace cranberry sauce with it for our New Year’s Day turkey dinner 🙂
Great point, Jordan! Thanks for your comment. I have used Granny Smith apples, but I do find I need to simmer it for a longer period.
Glad you enjoyed it! I made enough for Thanksgiving to freeze some. I’ll be pulling it out to serve with our Christmas ham.
lovely recipe! beautiful colour & that addition of orange & apple must have given it a delecious tang 🙂
This was so delicious and pretty easy to make however I did add a little sugar and added a packet of cherry jello mix because it was pretty tart. After that it
tasted phenomenon!
I made this for Thanksgiving last year and it was a hit, especially among those of us who find the canned stuff suspicious. I love chutneys of all kinds, so I think I may use it a few times this fall!
It’s good stuff! Glad you liked it, Lindsay. I often buy bags of cranberries when they’re in season and freeze them to make chutney later in the year. 🙂
How far ahead can this be made? Anyone tried freezing?
I haven’t tried freezing it, but it seems like it would work. We’ve eaten leftovers for up to a week, so you can make it and refrigerate it for up to a week ahead of time.
This is the one Thanksgiving recipe I come back to again and again every year, it’s SO good!!! All the other recipes I use seem to change or rotate, or get left out, but not this one. It always gets the most compliments!! Thanks!!
I’m so glad you like it, Angelica! We have had it every Thanksgiving for so many years.This year one of my daughters is making it and bringing it to our house. 🙂 Thanks so much for your comment, and Happy Thanksgiving!