Homemade Cranberry Sauce

During the holidays, no family meal is complete without turkey and cranberry sauce. They go together like socks and shoes, like bread and butter, like peas and carrots. However, we have become accustomed to seeing the ringed can-shaped cranberry jelly from the supermarket gracing our tables, the centerpiece of our holiday spread. Today, I am going to change all that by showing you how to make the easiest homemade cranberry sauce ever. After you try this recipe, opening a can may even seem like hard work!

Happy Holidays!

Step 1: Ingredients

Step one to making easy homemade cranberry sauce? Very few ingredients - and this sauce only has three.

You will need:

- one 600g bag of frozen cranberries (about 4 cups)
- two large oranges
- 1/2 c. sugar

Comments

[oddstray]

We make our own cranberry sauce, mainly because the canned stuff is waaay too sweet!  We started by adding blueberries for some sweetness, and adding sugar only until the sauce was good.  Our latest batch has added orange juice as well.

We wanted cranberry sauce this summer, and couldn't find fresh cranberries anywhere!  So if you're a cranberry lover, buy extra when they're available and store them in the freezer until you use them.  Don't thaw them all the way before you cook them ... they go mushy if you do that.

[skyisblu]

Great suggestion for freezing the berries, oddstay - and frozen cranberries really do keep FOREVER!

[hishealer]

I'll add sugar as the last, after everything else has cooked down.  You can never tell how much natural sugar will be in the berries, and I like mine a little tart.

[skyisblu]

Actually, the amount of sugar is just right if you like your cranberry sauce a little more on the tart side. Plus, adding the sugar at the end might result in a more granular texture. Though the cooking time is very short, it is enough to ensure the sugar completely dissolves in the sauce.

[hishealer]

You beat me to this 'ible.  It was gonna be my first, but I think you did a better job anyway.

[skyisblu]

Wow, thank you!

[hishealer]

5 stars! It really is just that simple!

[hishealer]

It sounds like popcorn!

[jessyratfink]

Simple and awesome looking! :D