But rather than settling for just plain old nuts, here we toast them with a spiced brown sugar glaze before chopping them up and mixing them into the sauce. Just a little bit of cayenne in the spice mix helps to balance out the cinnamon and sugar. This complex cranberry sauce is inspired by a classic winter beverage, mulled wine.

We swap in red wine for the water typically used to cook the berries and add cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice.

Molasses and maple syrup give the sauce a more layered sweetness than one made with white sugar. Just like in the previous recipe, plain water gets the boot in favor of a more flavorful cooking liquid. Here, it's tart pomegranate juice, which gives the sauce an extra dimension of fruit flavor.

The mouth-puckering, crunchy pomegranate seeds we stir in after cooking will make clear that this isn't your grandma's cranberry sauce, but the flavor is still traditional enough to keep any guest satisfied. This cranberry sauce is bursting with familiar fall flavors—orange, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves—but it also contains a secret ingredient: spiced rum.

There's not enough rum here to hit you over the head, but it does add some pleasant depth of flavor. This cranberry sauce is about as far from traditional as you can get. Tailor-made to stand up to a smoky barbecued turkey , it's made with fresh jalapeños, lime juice, and a few teaspoons of mezcal for complementary smokiness.

Remove the seeds from the peppers to give the sauce more of a fruity flavor than an intensely spicy one. This last recipe isn't a cranberry sauce at all, but pulsing fresh cranberries, apple, sugar, orange juice, and orange zest together in a food processor gets you the same flavors in a thicker form akin to a relish.

It also takes just 10 minutes to make, so it's the perfect option if you feel overwhelmed by the rest of your Thanksgiving prep duties. Use limited data to select advertising.

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Add at the beginning of cooking. Well, number one is a roast turkey, of course, but there are other ways to enjoy cranberry sauce. Have you tried cranberry sauce on toast in the morning?

It is basically a jam and can be treated like one. On a sandwich, you probably have had it with your leftover turkey, but it is also great on a chicken sandwich or a ham sandwich too.

Make up a pan of sliders and use it as a condiment. You will be loving these well after the day has gone, especially if you freeze some cranberries or cranberry sauce for a later date like game day. Have you had cranberry sauce or a melting warm brie? It will be gobbled down as it goes excellent with the rich, creamy brie cheese.

Or serve it up with a cheese or charcuterie board. The sweet tartness of cranberry sauce is excellent with many types of deli meats too. Flavor dairy items like yogurt and whipped cream, or blend them into a creamy, decadent milkshake.

They will all turn a pretty pink color naturally. Use it as a glaze for BBQ chicken or roast chicken. Add some to your favorite BBQ sauce. It would also be excellent with pork. Use it in place of cinnamon in rolls or bars, as in these delicious cranberry bars.

Enjoy these berries and use them more often than just on your Thanksgiving table. I hope I have introduced you to new and exciting ways to enjoy the wonderful cranberry and see all the great benefits it has not only for your health but for a delicious diet too.

Bring to a boil, and on a high simmer, cook for 10 minutes or until almost all of the cranberries have burst. Let cool for 30 minutes, and then cover and refrigerate.

The cranberries will thicken and gel with cooling. Fresh fruit like pineapple, apples, and oranges. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Ingredients 3 cups 12 oz. bag cranberries 1 cup of sugar 1 cup of water. Instructions Stir ingredients together in a small saucepan.

Add additions if using. Cranberry sauce can be made 3 days in advance, keeping it refrigerated. Additions: Fresh fruit like pineapple, apples, and oranges. Orange zest, zest of one orange or about 2 tsp. Orange juice, substitute half the water for orange juice. Orange liqueur like Grand Marnier, add a tablespoon at the beginning of cooking.

Add in toasted nuts after cooking. Spices, add in a dash of nutmeg, cardamom, and cinnamon to taste before cooking. Recommended Products As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Saucepan, ROCKURWOK Nonstick Sauce Pan Small Pot with Lid, Solid Wood Handle, 1. Nutrition Information: Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1 Amount Per Serving: Calories: 77 Total Fat: 0g Saturated Fat: 0g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 0g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 1mg Carbohydrates: 20g Fiber: 0g Sugar: 20g Protein: 0g.

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If your sauce is too sloppy, try a longer cooking time. A 12 ounce bag of cranberries holds about 3 cups of raw cranberries.

Yes, both the cranberry sauce and the fresh cranberries can be frozen. This recipe works with fresh or frozen cranberries. It's a great item to make ahead, because you can store it in the refrigerator for several weeks. For longer storage, use the freezer or can the sauce.

Process in a boiling water bath canner for 15 minutes. There's nothing wrong with serving your sauce warm, but in most cases it's served at room temperature or cold. As the sauce cools, the natural pectin in the cranberries thickens it. Traditionally, we pair cranberry sauce with a holiday turkey, but we also enjoy it with chicken and pork.

It's amazing how it brightens up a meal as a side dish to chicken and broccoli casserole. For an easy appetizer, spread cranberry sauce over a brick of cream cheese, sprinkles with some nuts, and serve with crackers.

If you have a little more time, try baked phyllo shells stuffed with a mix of cream cheese and crabmeat, topped with cranberry sauce.

If you like cheesecake, puree the sauce until smooth and swirl it into your favorite no bake cheesecake recipe. Alternatively, use it as a topping for your favorite plain cheesecake or vanilla ice cream.

To make a basic cranberry sauce recipe, combine sugar and water 1 cup each. Bring to a boil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add cranberries, and cook on low to medium heat, stirring occasionally, until sauce starts to thicken. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely, or serve warm.

Transfer to a sealed container for storage in refrigerator or freezer. Instead of sugar, sweeten with Swerve sugar replacement or other no calorie sweetener.

Swerve measures one for one and works well for many ketogenic recipes. No reviews. A super easy cranberry sauce recipe with just 3 ingredients, plus creative flavor variations including cranberry-orange, maple cranberry-cherry, cranberry-apple, pineapple-cranberry, red wine cranberry, spiced and gingered cranberry-orange.

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Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Fresh cranberries have a pH of around 3 — 2. Sugar is hygroscopic attracting water , so sauce with a sugar substitute may tend to weep more.

Laurie, Thanks for the recipe! Are each of the variations suitable for canning, or just the basic? Recipe for cranberry sauce seems relatively easy.

After making whole cranberry sauce can you use it in a congealed salad recipe? Thank you. The texture of the finished sauce is similar to commercial whole berry sauce, not the jelly like sauce with a uniform texture and no visible berries. I make a cranberry pear sauce every year at this time and we often eat it as a jam or jelly.

It had become a family favorite. When I am making my homemade Apple sauce I add 1 bag of Cranberries to a batch and we get CranApple Sauce.

When they have Cranberries on sale during the holidays I stock up and throw several bags in my freezer so when I need to make another batch…I have them. Save space on the stovetop and make your cranberries in a food processor instead!

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Recipe: Cranberry Port Sauce. This relish is incredibly spicy, but the raw cranberries, cilantro, and chiles add bright freshness. Recipe: Spiced Cranberry Relish. This fresh holiday side is a nice alternative to cranberry sauce, packing in added seasonal flavor.

Recipe: Roasted Cranberry Pear Relish. Recipe: Spiced-Tea Cranberry Sauce. Bright but not too sweet, this relish is great with turkey as an alternative—or addition—to cranberry relish. Recipe: Spiced Pickled Quinces.

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Cranberry Ginger Sauce Fresh ginger and the zest and juice of an orange gives a tart and fresh kick to this Thanksgiving mainstay. Cranberry, Jicama, and Cilantro Salsa This salsa is best when freshly made.

Anise Pear-Cranberry Sauce Anise, pear, orange, cinnamon, and honey flavor this unusual but outstanding take on cranberry sauce to serve beside the big bird.

Cranberry Port Sauce The combination of cranberries, orange, and Port in this easy sauce makes a wonderful accompaniment for turkey. Spiced Cranberry Relish This relish is incredibly spicy, but the raw cranberries, cilantro, and chiles add bright freshness.

Roasted Cranberry Pear Relish This fresh holiday side is a nice alternative to cranberry sauce, packing in added seasonal flavor. You can always dial the smoky heat up or down in the recipe, to suit your taste and tolerance for spice!

This Simple Spiced Cranberry Sauce from Grow Forage Cook Ferment is a simple and easy twist on the classic original — with the addition of ginger! Ginger is such a perfect seasonal spice to add to a seasonal recipe like cranberry sauce. Just saying the title of this makes me feel like I can smell it: Maple Bourbon Cranberry Sauce.

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It uses all the classic ingredients like sugar, orange juice and orange peel. But adding brown sugar adds a bit of depth and helps the jalapeño blend perfectly! Be sure to dice the jalapeños into small pieces for a smooth and seamless flavor.

Another boozy cranberry sauce? Obviously these bloggers are on to something! This Vanilla Bourbon Cranberry Sauce comes from Jaylynn Little , and it features vanilla bean paste, orange zest and bourbon. Amaretto is an almond flavored liquor, and I can practically taste the unique flavor it would bring to the tang of cranberry sauce.

This Orange Amaretto Cranberry Sauce is from Cooking with Curls. I love the idea of playing with the citrus notes of cranberry sauce. Classically, the citrus flavor comes from orange juice or zest.

The very first recipe on this list alters that citrus flavor to tangerine, and here, Carlsbad Cravings uses orange juice but also adds crushed pineapple and juice to enhance the flavor palette. Ok, there you have it! Those are my top choices for upping the ante on your cranberry sauce game.

This year, surprise all your dinner guests with a new recipe variation — or try two, so you can find your favorite! Which one are you trying first? Insta Pinterest Enews TikTok. Nothing says holidays more perfectly than Sugared Cranberries!

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