Tropical Holiday Recipes: Cranberries and Stuffing

This week in my Tropical Holiday Recipes series brings what I feel are the two most important side dishes of any holiday meal. I adore cranberry sauce and stuffing ridiculously and try to find any excuse to make them year round. I have compiled 10 recipes for each to help in your tropical holiday plans, so without further ado:

CRANBERRIES

1)Mai Tai Cranberries 

 

This will keep for up to a month in the refrigerator. 

2)Lemongrass Cranberry Sauce 

 

3)Cranberry Tangerine and Crystallized Ginger Relish 

 

This one freezes great. 

4)Cranberry Mango Sauce 

 

5)Cranberry Guava Relish 

 

This is an unusual recipe from Iron Chef Bobby Flay with both sweet and savory elements.

6)Ginger Mint Cranberry Sauce with Red Wine 

 

7)Cranberry Passion Fruit Sauce 

 

If you don't have access to fresh passion fruit, frozen is fine. In a pinch you can even use passion fruit nectar though the consistency may be more fluid. 

8)Starfruit Cranberry Sauce 

 

To make this one even more tropical replace the walnuts or pecans with macadamia nuts. 

9)Cranberry Orange and Ginger Chutney 

 

10)Tropical Pineapple Cranberry Sauce 

 

Any tropical juice blend will work in this recipe. 

Now on to the next part of the blog. I know a lot of people still like to stuff their turkeys, but I'm a bit paranoid of food born illness so I always make mine separate. These recipes can be adapted either way, the choice is yours.

STUFFING

1)Cranberry Macadamia Nut Stuffing 

 

2)Hawaiian Sweet Bread and Sausage Stuffing 

 

3)Kalua Pork Stuffing 

 

This is probably the most local recipe. Check the frozen section of specialty grocery stores to find Kalua pork on the mainland. Or make it yourself in a slow cooker using this link: Kalua Pork

4)Hawaiian Portuguese Sausage Stuffing 

 

5)Chinese Rice Stuffing 

 

Rice stuffing is a great gluten free alternative for the holiday

6)Shiitake Lup Cheong Stuffing 

 

7)Hawaiian Savory Stuffing 

 

8)Pineapple Stuffing 

 

9)Tropical Stuffing 

 

10)Island Stuffing 

 

Well that's all for this week, be sure to check back next week when I feature other tropical side dishes as well as tropical holiday drinks. Until then Aloha from Maui.