The easiest and tastiest 4-ingredient Cranberry Sauce Recipe! The perfect side dish for your Thanksgiving Dinner. Anyone can make this recipe!
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The easiest and tastiest 4-ingredient Cranberry Sauce Recipe! The perfect side dish for your Thanksgiving Dinner. Anyone can make this recipe!
Either you love homemade cranberry sauce with fresh cranberries or you don’t. We love it, gobble it up actually, so it’s a mus-make every year for our Thanksgiving dinner (and sometimes for Christmas). It’s a holiday staple like pumpkin pie.
It pairs so nicely with the other flavors of the meal and is part of the tradition of the holiday, so it stays on the menu no matter how many guests eat it! It’s vegan and gluten-free, so a good option for most people you have to dinner.
Another side dish that we serve on Thanksgiving every year is Roasted Brussels Sprouts. MMMmmmm! This Baked Cranberry Brie is a favorite appetizer for sure!
If you want to know why we eat cranberries this time of year, Martha Stewart has some ideas.
Turkey is the main attraction during Thanksgiving, so check out these tips on roasting your Thanksgiving turkey and keeping it moist,
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With its simple ingredients, you really can’t mess up this homemade cranberry sauce recipe!
Fresh Cranberries
Sugar
Water
Orange Zest
We prefer it served at room temperature, so make sure you get it out prior to when you want to serve it.
The thickness of your sauce is a personal preference. The longer you cook your cranberries the thicker your sauce will be, but it will also thicken up after standing, so plan accordingly.
This cranberry recipe is simple to make and you can easily get your kids involved to help if you watch them carefully at the stove. Cranberry Sauce is definitely a recipe you can make ahead so that you’re free to make other sides {or watch some football} the day of Thanksgiving.
Warning: The sauce tends to splatter when cooking. An apron is recommended.
It needs at least two hours in the refrigerator before serving it, but it can be made up to a week ahead of time and kept in an airtight container.
For those that like to plan ahead, you can make your cranberry sauce up a month ahead of time and keep it in the freezer until ready to use.
Simply reheat your cranberry sauce over medium heat in a saucepan. Freezing the sauce introduces more water into the mix, so your cranberry sauce will not be as thick as when it was originally made. Simply boil for a few minutes to evaporate some of the liquid and thicken it up.
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This Cranberry Sauce recipe originally published on 11/12/2015, the post was updated on 11/1/19 to include tips and more information.
Leftover cranberry sauce goes well on turkey sandwiches, turkey meatballs, panini sandwiches or even turkey quesadillas, so it’s perfectly fine to make extra 🙂
Here’s an extra yummy list of What to Do With Your Leftover Cranberry Sauce.
Eat it for breakfast with yogurt and nuts!
Enjoy! Are you a cranberry lover?
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