The color of this dish is all about the citrus. The manhattan is made from blood orange juice, and the sauce is made with a combination of diced onions, red bell peppers, green bell peppers, and garlic cloves. This dish always reminds me of eating my childhood home cooked meal.
This might be my favorite dish. Blood oranges are one of those rare fruits that are both delicious and relatively rare. They’re quite a little bit bigger than oranges, and the skin is red and leathery. The blood orange juice adds a nice citrus backbone to the dish, and the sauce has a mild sweetness, but is spicy enough not to overpower the blood oranges.
Blood oranges are a little harder to find than other citrus fruits like oranges. They are known to grow only in the tropical world of the Caribbean. The reason for this is because the region is quite small, making it hard for large groups of people to share the same food. This makes it difficult to grow commercially anywhere and so many citrus growers opted to grow them on their own.