It’s that time again! I first posted this in November 2010, and have posted it each November/Thanksgiving since. It’s too delicious NOT to have on your table, even if the gathering around your table this year will be smaller than usual.
I’m posting it early this year because 2020 has been such a tricky year. Make this dish early to perfect it, make it as a treat to yourself, and make it because we all need something pretty and delicious on the table, even if it’s not Thanksgiving yet.
This is the easiest cranberry salsa recipe in existence. If you’re a total purist, make your own cranberry sauce from the directions on a bag of fresh cranberries. If you’re in a hurry and have fourteen other dishes to make (that’s me), use canned cranberry sauce. I recommend whole berry sauce.
And this isn’t just a Thanksgiving recipe –make it and take to a potluck and you’ll be deemed brilliant. All the other guests will want your recipe. That’s why you go to potlucks, right?
Eat it in front of the TV. Have it for breakfast. It’s versatile, it’s fruit, it contains Vitamin C, it borders on healthy. Have it every day!
Ingredients:
Cranberry sauce (whole berry) (canned or fresh –you choose) (Here’s a link to the type I buy)
Jalapenos –seeded and deveined and chopped (1 or 2 or 3 –you choose based on who’s eating this salsa and how hot you want it)
½ purple onion, chopped
Fresh cilantro, chopped, at least a tablespoon (again you decide on the amount. At my house we love extra cilantro. At some houses they think it tastes like dirt. I don’t invite those people over. .)
Lime juice (at least a teaspoon, and fresh is better.)
Garlic salt (pinch to taste)
Mix all ingredients together and serve with corn chips OR fresh veggies for dipping. Here’s a link to my favorite organic corn chips.
My suggestion is that you make this at least a day ahead of your big meal. Like almost everything, it’s better when you let the flavors sit together at least overnight.
Note: There are about 927 recipes online for cranberry salsa. I’m just giving you the easiest, quickest and in my experience, the most warmly received. Enjoy. And be thankful. Gratitude is the best dish to have on the table this year!