Basic Cranberry Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Empty a 12-ounce bag of fresh or frozen cranberries into a saucepan and transfer 1/2 cup to a small bowl. Add 1 cup sugar, 1 strip orange or lemon zest and 2 tablespoons water to the pan and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves and the cranberries are soft, about 10 minutes. Increase the heat to medium and cook until the cranberries burst, about 12 minutes. Reduce the heat to low and stir in the reserved cranberries. Add sugar, salt and pepper to taste and cool to room temperature before serving.

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• In a medium saucepan, combine cranberries, sugar, lemon zest, and water; bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer; cook until cranberries are soft, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, and let cool to room temperature.

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• Empty the cranberries into a saucepan and transfer 1/2 cup to a small bowl. Add the sugar, zest and 2 tablespoons water to the pan and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves and the cranberries are soft, about 10 minutes. Increase the heat to medium and cook until the cranberries burst, about 12 minutes. Reduce the heat to low and stir in the reserved cranberries. Remove the citrus peel. Add sugar, salt and pepper to taste. Cool to room temperature before serving.

Steps:

• Bring water, sugar and salt to a rapid boil in a medium nonreactive saucepan over high heat.
• Stir occasionally to dissolve the sugar.
• Stir in your cranberries and return to a boil.
• Reduce your heat to medium and simmer until saucy and slightly thickened and about 2/3 of your berries have popped open-- about 5 minutes.
• Place in a bowl and cool at room temperature.

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• Heat the canola oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the ginger and shallots and cook, stirring, until soft and fragrant, about 3 minutes. Stir in the brown sugar, honey, orange juice, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, and salt. Cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves and mixture is nice and bubbly.
• Add half the cranberries and cook, stirring occasionally, until the cranberries pop and the mixture thickens, about 5 minutes. Add the remaining cranberries and cook another 5 minutes or so.

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• Boil sugar and water together for 5 minutes.
• Add cranberries and boil, without stirring, till skins pop, approximately 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat and cool.

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• Combine the cranberries, sugar, 1 1/2 cups water and the lemon and orange zest and juice in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer and cook until the cranberries burst and the sauce thickens, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Transfer the cranberry sauce to a bowl and refrigerate until cold and thickened but still saucy, at least 4 hours and up to 1 week.

Steps:

• Bring all ingredients to boil in heavy medium saucepan, stirring often. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until most of cranberries burst, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Transfer sauce to medium bowl. Cool, cover, and refrigerate cranberry sauce. DO AHEAD Basic Cranberry Sauce can be prepared 1 week ahead. Keep refrigerated.

Steps:

• In a medium sized saucepan over medium heat, dissolve the sugar in the orange juice. Stir in the cranberries and cook until the cranberries start to pop (about 10 minutes). Remove from heat and place sauce in a bowl. Cranberry sauce will thicken as it cools.

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• Bring water and sugar to a boil.
• Add remaining ingredients, return to boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer, stirring often, until berries burst.
• Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
• Remove ginger root, refrigerate until cold (preferably over night to allow ample time to gel).
• Even after cooling, this is a bit runny for some people's taste. You can solve this by either reducing the amount of liquid added, or by boiling some of it off.

Steps:

• Tip 100g light muscovado sugar and 100ml orange juice into a pan, then bring to the boil.
• Stir in 250g fresh or frozen cranberries, then simmer until tender but still holding their shape - this will take about 5 mins if using frozen cranberries or 8-10 mins if using fresh.
• The sauce will thicken as it cools. Will keep in the fridge for 1 week. On the day, bring to room temperature before serving.

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• Combine the wine, sugar, cinnamon, and ginger in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Add the cranberries and cherries. Return to a simmer; reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer 45 minutes stirring occasionally. Refrigerate until cold before serving.

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• Place the sugars, orange juice, water, and cinnamon in a heavy saucepan, and stir to dissolve the sugar. Add the cranberries and bring the mixture to a boil. Cook over medium heat until the berries pop, about 10 minutes. Mash the mixture with a spoon to pop any unpopped berries and help thicken the sauce, if desired, and reduce heat to low and simmer until the sauce is the desired thickness, up to 10 more minutes.
• Remove from the heat, pour the sauce into a bowl, and chill until serving time. Sauce will thicken as it cools.

Steps:

• Spread cranberries in shallow dish so that they are not too thick.
• Sprinkle sugar over them.
• Cover.
• Place in oven at 350 degrees until all are popped open.
• Remove from oven, mix with marmalade and lemon juice to taste. Refrigerate. ( you could add some nutmeg and cinnamon to this)