Chipotle Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

• 12 ounce cranberries fresh
• 2  chipotle chile dried
• 1 small garlic clove chopped
• 0.3 teaspoon ground cinnamon generous ()
• 0.3 teaspoon ground cumin generous ()
• 3 tablespoons juice of lemon fresh
• 1.3 cups sugar 

Equipment

• sauce pan

Directions

1. Place chiles in medium saucepan filledwith water; bring to boil. Reduce heat tomedium and simmer until chiles are tender,adding more water if needed to keep chilessubmerged, 1 to 11/2 hours, depending ondryness of chiles.
2. Drain.
3. Combine softened chipotles,cranberries, sugar, and lemon juice in heavymedium saucepan and stir over mediumheat until sugar dissolves. Continue cookinguntil cranberries begin to pop, stirringoccasionally, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic,cinnamon, and cumin. Simmer until saucethickens slightly and flavors meld, stirringoften, about 5 minutes. Cool.
4. Remove chipotles. Stem and seed.Mince chiles and return to cranberry sauce;stir to distribute. Cover and chill. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 week ahead. Keep chilled.
5. * Can be found at specialty foods stores,natural foods stores, and Latin markets.
6. Dried chipotle chiles canvary by brand, with some being moresupple than others. Look for chiles that giveslightly when pressed between your thumband forefinger. Chiles that are hard may notsoften sufficiently when simmered in water.