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Pickled Cranberries & Goat Cheese Crostini

Upgrade your goat cheese crostini with a bold, ruby red touch of pickled U.S. Cranberries. Pickle your own cranberries at home and have them ready to provide a burst of flavor to your dish. This eye-catching appetizer by Carlene Thomas, RDN, LD is super simple to make and only requires baguette, goat cheese, and thyme once your cranberries have been pickled to perfection. Bon appétit!

Featuring U.S. Cranberries

Ingredients

	Pickled Cranberries
230 ml	apple cider vinegar
473 ml	water
1 tbsp	kosher salt
2 tbsp	granulated sugar
1 tbsp	whole mustard seed
1 tsp	ground cumin
2 cups	whole fresh cranberries
	Crostini
1	whole grain baguette
227 g	packaged tube of mild goat cheese
2 cups	pickled cranberries
6	sprigs of fresh thyme, cut to garnish

To make pickled cranberries

Add vinegar and water to a small saucepan and heat over medium-high heat.
Stir in salt and sugar until dissolved and bring liquid to a boil.
Once boiling, turn off heat and remove pan from heat.
Add spices and fresh cranberries to the quart-size jar.
Pour vinegar mixture over cranberries.
Close lid and shake.
Cool and refrigerate overnight. Invert the jar periodically to evenly cover cranberries with liquid.

To make crostini

To build crostini, slice baguette into thick rounds, toast baguette slices if desired.
Spread cut side with goat cheese and top with a strained spoonful of cranberries.
Top with fresh thyme.

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Pickled Cranberries & Goat Cheese Crostini

Ingredients

Pickled Cranberries

Crostini

To make pickled cranberries

To make crostini

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