Fresh Cranberry Salad is a must in our house! It’s a Minnesota farm favorite during the Christmas season. My husband’s mother used to make this by grinding everything through a meat grinder. Thankfully, we now have food processors that can do the chopping much easier!
This salad needs to be made a day ahead.
Process in food processor until finely chopped. (I do each individually as each fruit takes a different amount of processing.)
1 bag cranberries, rinsed
1 navel orange, washed and cut into quarters (do not peel!)
1 Pink Lady apple
Mix the chopped fruit together in large bowl along with 3/4 c. sugar and cinnamon to taste.
As the salad marinates overnight, it forms a lovely red syrup. If desired, you can stir in some chopped walnuts before serving.
This recipe doubles quite easily.
My mom used to make this, but never used cinnamon.
I can still remember (60 years later) the sound of the cranberries popping as she ran them through the meat grinder she had clamped onto the kitchen table. I still make this at many house, the old fashioned way.
Weird stuff we remember from childhood...