Healthy Cranberry Sauce – Eat Yourself Skinny

This Healthy Cranberry Sauce is of course sweetened made with maple syrup, recent orange juice, cinnamon, ginger and deep wealthy flavors from a bit of port wine.  Sweet, tangy and the right addition to your Thanksgiving and Christmas desk this season!

No want to make use of boring cranberry sauce from a can when you possibly can simply make your individual do-it-yourself cranberry sauce in simply 10 minutes!  This healthy cranberry sauce recipe has zero added sugar and is of course sweetened with maple syrup, recent squeezed orange juice and a bit of port wine to actually deepen the flavour.  Don’t fear, this gained’t style boozy!  If you need to make this non-alcoholic, merely use water rather than the wine or much more orange juice.  I additionally like so as to add in a bit of cinnamon and recent ginger because it actually makes all these flavors pop and let me inform you, this sauce is all the time successful on our Thanksgiving and Christmas desk.

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• Sweet, tangy and so scrumptious!
• A lighter tackle a traditional vacation facet dish.
• Easy to make with simply 6 easy substances in 10 minutes.
• The excellent Thanksgiving facet dish that may simply be prepped forward of time!

Ingredients You’ll Need

• cranberries – you’ll want a 12 oz bag of recent cranberries, however frozen cranberries will work simply fantastic, no must thaw them out.
• orange juice + zest – I squeezed about 2 oranges to get a 1/2 cup of recent orange juice together with a teaspoon of orange zest.
• maple syrup – this naturally sweetens the cranberry sauce with out utilizing refined sugar, however you would additionally use honey or different pure sweetener.
• port wine – this provides further sweetness and a deep wealthy taste which actually balances out the tartness of the cranberries.  If you don’t have port wine, be happy to make use of your favourite crimson wine or just use water to make this non-alcoholic.
• cinnamon sticks – I added two cinnamon sticks to the cranberry combination when boiling, however should you don’t have sticks you should use a half teaspoon of floor cinnamon.  You might additionally use cloves, star anise or perhaps a little vanilla extract.
• recent ginger – I like the refined style recent grated ginger provides to this cranberry sauce, however should you aren’t a fan of ginger, be happy to simply go away this out.

How to Make Healthy Cranberry Sauce

1. Mix collectively substances.  In a small or medium saucepan over medium-high warmth, stir collectively the cranberries, orange juice, orange zest, maple syrup, port wine, cinnamon sticks and recent ginger.
2. Simmer.  Bring the cranberry combination to a boil.  Reduce the warmth, cowl and let the cranberry sauce simmer for about 10 minutes on the range, stirring frequently.  Once the cranberries start to pop and burst, flip the warmth off in order that the sauce doesn’t get too mushy.  The sauce will proceed to thicken because it cools.
3. Cool and serve.  Feel free to go away among the cranberries entire or you possibly can mash them utilizing a fork or the again of your spoon.  Let the cranberry orange sauce cool for about 20 or half-hour, serve and revel in!  You may garnish your cranberry sauce with further orange peel or some recent herbs to make a fairly presentation.

Prepping and Storage

To Prep:  You could make this cranberry sauce as much as 3 days forward of time so it’s a nice facet dish to prep previous to Thanksgiving or Christmas and the flavors get even higher as they marinate!

To Store:  I like having leftover cranberry sauce as a result of there are such a lot of nice methods to make use of it (good day leftover turkey sandwiches!) and you’ll retailer the leftover in a sealed, hermetic container within the fridge for  one week.

To Freeze:  You may retailer this cranberry sauce within the freezer for as much as 3 months and thaw out within the fridge in a single day when prepared to make use of.

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