Best Cranberry Sauce
This is, by far, the best cranberry sauce recipe ever. You'll never go back to canned.
Equipment
- 3 Qt sauce pan
- Wooden spoon
Ingredients
- 2 bags fresh cranberries
- 1/4 c sugar
- 1/4 c dark brown sugar
- 1/4 c orange or apple juice
- 1 can mandarin oranges, drained
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- In a 3-quart saucepan over high heat, bring all ingredients to a boil. Lower heat to maintain a simmer until the cranberries are tender. Use the backside of a wooden spoon to pop stubborn cranberries. Serve warm or cold.This cranberry sauce is, of course, the perfect accompaniment to the traditional American Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey dinner. But it's equally as delicious on ice cream, as the jam in a PB&J sandwich, on sourdough toast with cream cheese, in apple pie filling, and on a spoon.NOTE: if you like your cranberry sauce a little sweeter, use a bit more sugar. Feel free to add more mandarin oranges or cinnamon to suite your tastes. If you don't have apple or orange juice, use the mandarin orange juice from the can. If you don't have both kinds of sugar, just use what you have. This recipe is NOT fastidious.