Red Currant Glaze Recipes

RED CURRANT, ORANGE AND ROSEMARY GLAZE

Steps:

• Sauce -- In a small pot, add the orange juice, butter, and rosemary and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until reduced by approximately half, this should take about 5 minutes. Remove the rosemary sprigs. Add the jelly and whisk well to combine. Continue to simmer another couple of minutes just to heat through.
• Just brush or baste on your meats or chicken as it bakes or grills. I often just season my meats or poultry with salt and pepper and then baste often. I treat the glaze very much like a BBQ sauce.

RED CURRANT GLAZE

Steps:

• Heat the jelly and water in a small saucepan over medium heat until melted and smooth.
• Remove from heat.
• Let cool until it is only slightly warm and then glaze the fruit or tart crust, using a pastry brush.

EASTER HAM WITH RED CURRANT GLAZE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 300 degrees.
• Put ham fat side up on a bed of aluminum foil in a pan just big enough to hold it. Place in oven for 2 1/2 hours.
• Remove from oven, and peel off the outer layer of fat. Score top with a sharp knife at 3/4-inch intervals in a checkerboard pattern, about half an inch deep. Return ham to oven.
• In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the jelly with the red wine and reduce until mixture is slightly syrupy, about 6 minutes. Baste ham lightly with the glaze every 10 minutes or so for 1 1/2 hours.
• Let cool for 30 minutes; then decorate with a thin line of parsley along every third scored line.

ROAST TURKEY WITH RED CURRANT JELLY AND CITRUS GLAZE

Steps:

• Make turkey:
• Combine water and salt in large stockpot; stir to dissolve salt. Rinse turkey inside and out. Add turkey to brine. Cover pot; refrigerate overnight. Stir butter and jelly in small sauce-pan over medium heat until melted. Mix in marjoram, orange peel and lemon peel. Freeze mixture until semi-firm, whisking occasionally, about 1 hour.
• Position rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 375°F. Drain turkey; pat dry inside and out. Sprinkle shallots in roasting pan. Place turkey atop shallots. Starting at neck end, slide hand between skin and breast meat to loosen skin. Spread 1/2 cup chilled jelly mixture over breast meat under skin and over outside of turkey (reserve remaining jelly mixture for gravy and glaze). If stuffing turkey, spoon stuffing loosely into neck and main cavities. Tuck wing tips under tur-key; tie legs together to hold shape.
• Roast turkey 45 minutes, adding some broth to pan if drippings threaten to burn. Reduce oven temperature to 350?F. Cover turkey loosely with foil. Roast until thermometer inserted into thigh registers 180?°F, adding more broth to pan if necessary to keep drippings from burning and basting turkey occasionally with drippings, about 3 hours longer if unstuffed or 3 1/2 hours longer if stuffed. If necessary, uncover turkey during last 20 minutes to brown skin. Transfer turkey to platter. Tent with foil; let stand 30 minutes. Re-serve mixture in pan for gravy.
• Make gravy:
• Strain pan juices into large measuring cup; spoon off fat. Add Giblet Stock; if necessary, add enough broth to measure 4 cups. Transfer mixture to large saucepan; bring to boil. Stir 4 tablespoons reserved jelly mixture and flour in bowl to form paste. Whisk paste into stock mixture. Add Port and citrus juices; boil until reduced enough to coat spoon thickly, about 12 minutes. Mix in orange peel. Season with salt and pepper.
• Brush warm turkey with enough remaining jelly mixture to glaze.