Easiest Whole Food Spiced Cranberry Sauce
The easiest cranberry sauce spiced for the holidays. Naturally sweetened, simply homemade.
This is the easiest whole food cranberry sauce, spiced with the flavors of the season. Pairs nicely with your holiday meals, and the leftovers are great for muffins, pancakes, salad dressing, and so much more!
Taste of the season
I always love to bring the colors and flavors of the season to my farmhouse table. Cranberries fit the bill perfectly.
Their bright, crimson color decorates your plate to a festive event. Cranberries are so healthy, too! We should have more in our diet. Between the health benefits of cranberries helping to manage UTIs, their antioxidant properties, to studies showing they may help lower the risk for cancer, let’s get more of these crimson beauties on our table! Source
More Tastes of the Season
Here’s a few of our favorite recipes:
Healthy and Frugal Homemade Hot Chocolate
Ways to Use Easiest Whole Food Spiced Cranberry Sauce
Besides the obvious use and presentation on our Thanksgiving and Christmas tables, we use cranberry sauce in many recipes and applications.
My favorite is to always make an extra amount. Cook once, eat often I always say! This sauce can be used to dollop on bread, rolls, and toast. It can be reheated and thinned to drizzle over pancakes and waffles or crepes. One of my favorite ways to use leftover cranberry sauce is when making muffins, fill the muffin cups halfway, then drop a tablespoon of sauce over the batter, and fill the rest of the muffin cup with more batter and bake.
Smoothies, gummies, candies, quick breads, and on and on.
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Easiest Whole Food Spiced Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
4, 10 oz packages fresh cranberries (can use frozen, too!)
2 cups water, or juice (apple or orange are nice)
1/4 cup lemon juice
4 TBS orange juice concentrate (if using water instead of juice), optional
1 ceylon cinnamon stick, like these, or 1 TBS ground
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 cup honey, maple syrup, or sucanat sugar, or to taste
Directions
Place all ingredients in a medium pot on the stove. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook until berries pop.
Depending on desired texture, use an immersion blender or potato masher to achieve a smooth or textured sauce. Simmer 20 min, or until desired consistency is reached. Sauce will thicken slightly as it cools.
EASIEST WHOLE FOOD SPICED CRANBERRY SAUCE
Equipment
- Immersion blender
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 4, 10 oz packages fresh cranberries can use frozen, too!
- 2 cups water or juice (apple or orange are nice)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 4 TBS orange juice concentrate if using water instead of juice, optional
- 1 ceylon cinnamon stick like these, or 2 tsp ground
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 cup honey maple syrup, or sucanut sugar
Instructions
Directions
- Place all ingredients in a medium pot on the stove. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook until berries pop.
- Depending on desired texture, use an immersion blender or potato masher to achieve a smooth or textured sauce. Simmer 20 min or until desired consistency is reached. Sauce will thicken slightly as it cools.
Does your family like cranberry sauce?
I know there’s a lot of camps on this topic! I wonder if it has to do with the difference between the 70s can of jellied cranberry sauce that was pushed through its store-bought vessel and proudly displayed on a small, decorative platter at various holiday gatherings. If this is the only way you and yours have tried this beautiful, nutritious winter berry, then I implore (yes, IMPLORE!) you to try this recipe. Then afterwards tell me I didn’t change your mind!