Cranberry Sauce

This is a recipe for cranberry sauce made from fresh cranberries. It can be made in about 2 hours, or done ahead of time, and then served as a favorite side dish to any Thanksgiving or Christmas meal.

Cranberry sauce made from fresh cranberries, as opposed to the stuff bought in a can, is awesome. It's a bit tart, which means that it's got a kick, and that can be a nice feature that stands out to the palate among the other flavors of the typical Thanksgiving meal. I like to serve a fresh cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving and the canned sweet stuff that you can get in the supermarket and have the best of both worlds.

Step 1 Ingredients

Fresh homemade cranberry sauce requires only a few ingredients:

• 12 oz fresh whole cranberries
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/3 cup orange juice
• 1 cup water
• zest from 1/4 lemon
• zest from 1/2 orange

Comments

[geodez]

Sås

[sdhardie]

Raisins and cinnamon are excellent additions also. :)

[lillimarlene]

 Good recipe- I use a whole orange or tangerine chopped very small (and the seeds removed) including the skin, instead of juice and lemon zest... then I add cinnamon and ground clove.  It's so good you eat it while it's still warm and hope you leave enough for the table :)

[porcupinemamma]

Love the ginger idea. QueenRocks191-turkey without cranberry is just not worth eating for many people in North America. Are you from a country that doesn't do that? I'm wondering if it's just a North America thing?

[redhedinsanity]

Another ingredient I love adding to my cranberry sauce is a bit of zested ginger. It really meshes well with the tanginess of fresh cranberry sauce. :)

[QueenRocks191]

does cranberry sauce taste good????

[nightninja87]

very nice