Easy Cranberry Sauce Recipe {from scratch with love}

Growing up in our house, Thanksgiving was a big deal! Turkey, potatoes, vegetables… you name it, it was on our table. We couldn’t have Thanksgiving dinner without all the trimmings, including cranberry sauce!

Only, the sauce on our table wasn’t a sauce at all.

It was more like a jello mold in the shape of a can sliced thin and laid on a plate. Which is exactly what it was.

Fast forward 30 or so years and my own foodie journey began researching and eliminating GMO’s, artificial flavors, colors and ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup and carageenan. At our Thanksgiving table (present day) you will not find jellied slices of red 40 and high fructose corn syrup. NO! At our table you will find a bowl of creamy sweet cranberries, water and sugar. That’s right, three ingredients that are easy to pronounce and you may already have in your kitchen (one would hope). The best part about it is it will take about the same time to make as it does to drive to the store buy the can, come home, open and slice the jellied artificial version: about 15 minutes. The price is als0 comparable where as 12 oz. of fresh cranberries is $2.50 and an 8 oz. can of jellied cranberry sauce is $1.25, both on sale right now.

Here is my easy recipe I hope you try and let me know how it fairs in comparison to the canned stuff!

Rinse

Boil

Blend

Sweeten

DONE!

Easy Cranberry Sauce Recipe {from scratch with love}

Difficulty: easy
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Ingredients:

12 oz. fresh cranberries

3/4 water

1/2 cup granulated sugar

Optional additional/substitutions

equal parts water and orange juice

replace 1/4 cup sugar with honey

Directions:

Rinse cranberries, picking out mushy or unripe berries.
Boil water
Add cranberries, boil 5-10 minutes, until all split open
Drain, strain, then blend OR do not drain or strain, simply use liquid immersion blender(my method) right in the pan.
Bring back to a boil.
Add sugar, stirring gently for 1 minute.
Remove from heat, allow to cool and refrigerate up to 7-10 days.