Sweet Southern Salmon Burgers with Lingonberry-Blood Orange Relish - Sutter Home Family Vineyards

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons garlic paste
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 3/4 cup of high quality Kentucky bourbon
• 3/4 cup of light brown sugar
• and 4 tablespoons of the smokehouse rub outlined below
• 1 3/4 lbs fresh salmon, finely chopped
• 3/4 cup cooled Sweet Southern Bourbon Marinade
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup pecans, chopped coarsley
• 1.4 cup Panko breadcrumbs
• 1/8 cup Swedish mustard
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 1/4 cup Vidalia onion, grated
• 3 tablespoons Williams and Sonoma Smokehouse Rub (or 2 teaspoons each applewood smoked salt, coarse ground black pepper, and 1 teaspoons each dried thyme, chopped rubbed sage, and sugar)
• 1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs
• 1/2 cup pecans, crushed finely
• 1 14.5 ounce jar lingonberry preserves (whole berry cranberry sauce will do in a pinch)
• 2 blood oranges, peeled and sliced into supremes
• 1/2 cup blood orange juice
• 1/2 cup Sutter Home White Merlot wine
• 2 tablespoons blood orange zest