Black Friday Grilled Cheese with Kitchen Sink Cranberry Sauce | Food Wishes

Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with Black Friday grilled cheese with kitchen sink cranberry sauce.

That's right. I'm going to show you the best day after Thanksgiving sandwich ever. Made with a very special cranberry sauce that is everything because it has almost everything except of course well you know. And that's where we'll start first by adding a lot of ingredients to a saucepan. including some finely diced dried tart cherries, some dried apricot, as well as some candied ginger.

We're also going to include some orange and lemon zest, as well as, believe it or

not, some diced up Fresno chili. And then we'll spice this up very simply with one star anise, followed by a couple sweeteners, which would be a touch of maple syrup, as well as a nice big pinch of white sugar.

And then what we'll do is pour in our orange juice.

Ideally freshly squeezed, but anything will work. Oh, and I almost forgot. We do want a tiny pinch of salt in here as well. And what we'll do is turn our heat up to medium high. And we'll give this a stir. And we'll wait for it to start to simmer. Oh, and it was right here when I realized I didn't put any cayenne in.

So, I went ahead and did a few shakes so people wouldn't get mad. But anyway, what we'll do once this is simmering is reduce our heat to medium low. And we'll let this simmer gently for about 10 or 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, just to give everything a little bit of a head start before we add our cranberries. So, that's exactly what I did.

And once that's simmered long enough, what we'll do is raise our heat to medium high and bring this up to a

boil. And once that is bubbling enthusiastically, we will take a 12 oz bag of fresh cranberries and we will add those in after rinsing them of course.