Homemade Cranberry Sauce Recipe

This is a delicious and easy homemade cranberry sauce recipe, which can easily be doubled for Thanksgiving and Christmas get-together. It usually has even the non-cranberry sauce lovers raving about it!

Cranberry Sauce Recipe

It is a versatile cranberry sauce recipe and very forgiving too. You can replace the orange juice with lemon juice or even water. For a more festive feel, you can Port to it. If you like a sweeter cranberry sauce, you can more sugar or a little bit of honey too. Lemon zest works well too if you don’t have orange zest on hand. Make it your own by adding things you love! Remember to let the cranberry sauce sit a while so that the flavors blend and it hits the right notes of sweet and tart.

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

A simple and delicious side dish, perfect for Thanksgiving!

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Course: Side Dish, Condiment

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Cranberry Sauce

Appliance: Saucepan

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Cooling time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Servings: 2 cups

Author: Raksha Hegde

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Ingredients

• 12 ounce cranberry bag, frozen or fresh
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tsp orange zest ^[3]
• 2 tbsp orange juice ^[4]
• 1/4 tsp salt

Instructions

• Add the sugar, orange zest, orange juice, and salt into the saucepan and cook over low heat till the sugar completely dissolves. 
• In about 10 minutes, you will notice that the cranberries have softened.
• Increase the heat to a medium simmer and cook till the cranberries burst, another 10-12 minutes. 
• Stir in the reserved cranberries and let it cool to room temperature. Your cranberry sauce is ready to be served! 
  
• You can use leftover cranberry sauce to make sandwiches or even drizzle it on waffles for a perfect post-Thanksgiving breakfast! 
  

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