Homemade Cranberry Sauce. This homemade cranberry sauce is classic. My father can't get enough of it during the holiday season. How do I make homemade cranberry sauce?
You can cook Homemade Cranberry Sauce using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Homemade Cranberry Sauce
- You need 12 oz of (more or less) fresh or frozen cranberries.
- Prepare 1 cup of granulated sugar.
- You need 1 of Orange peel or lemon zest.
- Prepare of fresh ground black pepper.
- It’s of salt.
- Prepare of water.
This is the best homemade cranberry sauce – it's so good and so easy you'll never buy the canned stuff again! Jazz up your homemade cranberry sauce with a splash of Grand Marnier for the best boozy condiment. Homemade cranberry sauce can be frozen. Although I recommend, you use it within the next two A Thanksgiving holiday feast is not complete unless there is homemade cranberry sauce on the table!
Homemade Cranberry Sauce step by step
Put aside half of the cranberries..
Add the other half to a medium sauce pan along with the sugar, peel and 2-4 tablespoons of water depending on how thick you prefer it..
Cook over a low, stir occasionally until the sugar has dissolved and the cranberries have become soft. Normally takes about 10 minutes or so..
Turn the heat to medium and cook until the cranberries have burst, about another 10-12 minutes or so..
Reduce heat to low again and stir in the reserved cranberries, cook until the reserved cranberries have become soft, about 5-7 minutes. Add 1-2 tablespoons of extra water if needed..
Add more sugar to taste, and salt and pepper..
Allow to cool to room temperature..
Serve when ready..
Remove from heat and place sauce in a bowl. Cranberry sauce will thicken as it cools. Watch me make this homemade cranberry sauce from start to finish!! Cranberry sauce is so easy and quick to make that there really isn't a reason why everyone shouldn't make it homemade. Yep, THREE Thanksgivings have come and gone since I started this post.
