Recipes with currant jelly

Marinating the chicken in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, dried thyme and tarragon add great depth to a rice sauce that's smoothed by just a hint of red currant jelly and enhanced with apricots and tawny port. Be sure to use tawny port. With its beautiful amber color and slightly dry flavor, it compliments the apricots. Save your ruby port, which is sweeter and has a deep red wine color, for after dinner.

Pan-seared pork chops with a sweet-tart red currant and balsamic glaze. Sage-rubbed loin chops finished in a glossy two-ingredient pan sauce.

Buttermilk-soaked Canadian goose stuffed with prunes and apples, wrapped in bacon, and slow-roasted until tender. Served with a rich sour cream and currant jelly sauce. A showpiece roast for eight.

Marinated venison roast soaked overnight in spiced vinegar and brandy, larded with salt pork and slow-roasted until tender. Finished with a glossy currant jelly pan gravy. A classic hunter's table centerpiece.

A zesty, fruity sauce with a hint of ginger. Perfect to accompany meat or poultry, served hot or cold. Quick and easy to prepare.

Roast venison loin marinated 24 hours in olive oil and aromatics, seared in clarified butter, and served with a savory wine sauce made from the bones, port, sherry vinegar, and currant jelly.

Whole wild goose roasted low and slow, basted with an orange-tarragon glaze made with currant jelly and port wine. Carved tableside with a glossy citrus sauce.

Sandbakelse, traditional Scandinavian butter cookies with cardamom, pressed into mini tart tins and filled with jam. Delicate, sandy-textured holiday cookies dusted with powdered sugar.

Norwegian roast venison (dyresteg) seared in butter, roasted to pink perfection, and served with a velvety brown goat cheese, currant jelly, and sour cream sauce. Scandinavian comfort at its finest.

Poppyseed thumbprint cookies with Grand Marnier, orange zest, and currant jelly centers. Buttery shortbread-style cookies with a subtle crunch and jewel-toned filling.

Glazed smoked ham three ways: honey-mustard-bourbon, red currant and orange, or classic brown sugar and clove. One holiday ham, three sticky-sweet finishes for Easter, Christmas, or Sunday supper.

Quick beef stir-fry with currant jelly, Dijon mustard, and frozen mixed vegetables. A sweet-savory weeknight dinner in one skillet, ready in 40 minutes.

Barbecued pork ribs with currant glaze rubs ribs in ginger, coriander, and paprika, then bastes them with a sweet-tart red currant, orange juice, and Dijon mustard glaze in the final 15 minutes. Glossy ruby-jeweled finish.

Lithuanian strawberry torte layers three light butter cake rounds with whipped cream, currant jelly, strawberry preserves, and pecans. Eastern European holiday celebration cake.

A no-bake strawberry cream cheese pie with fluffy whipped cream filling, fresh berries on top, and a glossy currant jelly glaze. Can be frozen overnight for easy entertaining.

Venison steaks with a Scotch whiskey sour sauce made from cranberries, orange juice, currant jelly, and Dijon mustard. A refined wild game dish with a sweet-tart pan sauce.