Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Once you see how easy it is to make it homemade, you may never serve canned again!
What’s Thanksgiving without cranberry sauce? If your only experience with cranberry sauce is opening up a tin can of gelatinous matter, you’re cheating yourself out of a real treat. The homemade version using whole cranberries is so easy to make and delicious to eat, you’ll never look at the canned stuff again. The best part is that cranberries are a true superfood, so you’re adding nutrition as well as flavor to your meals. Stock up when cranberries are in season (October to December) and freeze, and make it year-round.
Easy Homemade Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce
Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 12-ounce bag fresh or frozen whole cranberries
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
Instructions
- Bring all ingredients to a boil in a large saucepan. You’ll hear the cranberries “pop.” Boil for about 7 minutes over medium-low heat, then remove from heat. Let cool slightly.
- Using a potato masher, lightly mash the cranberries (you won’t get them all), then let the sauce stand until it reaches room temperature. Store in a covered glass container, and chill overnight. Mixture will appear runny when it’s warm but will firm up as it cools.
- Use up within a week.
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I always put some cinnamon in mine. Just really adds a lot.
We make our own. We use my Nanas cranberry maker with a wooden cone shaped squished and cone shaped metal strainer. My Nana made it and we carry on tradition. Every year!!
Homemade is always the best! Sounds like a wonderful family tradition.
A local store deli makes their own with cherries in it. It’s my favorite!
Try substituting orange juice for the water. You won’t regret it. Also try substituting just a little less than a cup of honey for the sugar.
And some maple syrup, then also used on the cheesecake! Yum!
Eric, what a great idea!
Have always loved cranberry sauce, but never made it at home. I never found a recipe to make it. This sounds wonderful and easy, so I may have homemade this year! Love the idea of pineapple and nuts too! Thanks!
Try using cran-apple juice for the water and add walnuts. I think you’ll like that as well! Add some zest of orange peel if you like.
the canned cranberry would be great if they would stop putting high fructose corn syrup in it.
I cut the amount of sugar, add oranges and walnuts. Have not tried adding pineapple but that sounds good, too.
What I have done for years is add an 8 ounce can of crushed pineapple with the juice and some chopped walnuts. Friends who do not like cranberry enjoy this recipe. You just need to let it be known that there are nuts in the relish.
That sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing!