How to Make Award-winning Holiday Cranberry Sauce

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Holiday Cranberry Sauce is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Holiday Cranberry Sauce is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Place fresh cranberries and water in a medium saucepan over medium heat. In a medium saucepan, combine the cranberries, orange juice, sugar, cinnamon stick, and lemon zest. Watch how to make this recipe. Jellied or whole, spiced or simple, these tangy, sweet cranberry sauce recipes are undoubtedly the ultimate condiments during the holiday season.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have holiday cranberry sauce using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Holiday Cranberry Sauce:

1. Make ready whole cranberries
2. Get brown sugar
3. Get cran-apple juice
4. Get apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
5. Make ready orange, zest, then peeled and quartered
6. Take raisins
7. Prepare fresh ginger, grated
8. Make ready nutmeg (grated or powder)
9. Make ready clove (powder)
10. Prepare cinnamon (powder)
11. Take chopped nuts (walnuts, almonds, etc.)

In order for you to have a seamless holiday cooking experience, the Barefoot Contessa recommends making the cranberry sauce a day before — that way it will be more than ready to be enjoyed. Cranberry sauce is one of the Thanksgiving stalwarts—and the family around your table either loves it or leaves it. This recipe for Cranberry-Apricot Sauce adds a new flavor to this traditional favorite, adding in the fresh fruit taste of apricots. You can also use fresh or frozen cranberries for this dish.

Steps to make Holiday Cranberry Sauce:

1. Wash the cranberries and discard any softened ones. Place them in a medium size pot. Add the sugar, juice, and apple pieces.
2. Begin to zest the outer skin of the orange over the pot. Finger swipe the remains from the zester into the pot. With a potato peeler, peel 5-6 strips or threads from the skin for later use as a garnish.
3. Next cut the orange in quarter slices. Cut away the orange fruit from the skin. Remove the white thread pieces from the fruit and discard. Cut the fruit pieces up in 1” chunks and set aside.
4. Add to the pot, the raisins, fresh ginger, and all the spices. Begin to heat over medium-high heat. Bring to a slight boil and then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Add the nuts and orange pieces when cranberries have popped and are softened, and simmer for 2-3 more minutes. Stir this lightly. Remove from the heat and allow it to cool for 5 minutes.
6. Place the cranberry sauce in a serving bowl, top with the orange peel threads, and place in the refrigerator to cool completely before serving.

This recipe for Cranberry-Apricot Sauce adds a new flavor to this traditional favorite, adding in the fresh fruit taste of apricots. You can also use fresh or frozen cranberries for this dish. Mix the cranberries, sugar, orange juice, orange zest, ground cloves, and cinnamon sticks together in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and cool. Cranberry sauce is an essential part of every holiday meal for one simple reason - it cuts through the heaviness of all the other dishes.

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