Homemade Bourbon Cranberry Sauce For Thanksgiving

Use it as a garnish for turkey. Or as a topping for ice cream. Whichever it is, this Bourbon Cranberry Sauce is incredibly easy to make and perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any day of the year.

Bourbon Cranberry Sauce Ingredients

1 cup Orange Juice
¼ cup Bourbon or Whiskey
½ cup White Sugar
½ cup Turbinado or Brown Sugar
12 oz Fresh Cranberries
Zest of 1 Small Lemon

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[Music] now when i was a kid cranberry sauce was not something i enjoyed it was only when i kind of grew up and actually tried it with turkey on thanksgiving around the holidays that i fell in love with it and this recipe adds a couple different things to it so let’s get started now i’ve got my saucepan here on my induction burner so we can see this more easily rather than moving over to the stove and this saucepan right here is just a little too large but i don’t have a smaller one that works on the induction burner but it’ll work now we’re going to start with a cup of orange juice to this i’m going to add half a cup of white sugar and half a cup of turbinado sugar turbinado sugar is a less refined version of white sugar there’s still some of that molasses in there i’m going to turn this to about medium low here and i want to dissolve the sugar in here so we’re going to get a little simmer going the induction burner has a fan so you might hear that we want to stir this to help it move along and dissolving [Music] we’re starting to get that bubbling going in here want to stir it around help that sugar dissolve you also don’t want your heat too high so you don’t end up burning anything in here a lot of sugar now to this i’m going to add some bourbon this is a quarter cup of bourbon and if you were doing this over flame i would turn the flame off but this is an induction burner there’s no ignition source so i’m just going to carefully pour it in and now i’m going to add my cranberries this is 12 ounces of fresh cranberries the kind you buy in a bag stir these in here now both the bourbon and the turbinado sugar is going to give a little bit of a deeper flavor here a little bit of a richer flavor to this cranberry sauce and what we’re going to do is we’re going to let this simmer and cook until those cranberries start to pop and it’s probably going to take i don’t know 10 minutes or so could take less could take more we just got to watch it and as they pop we’re going to sort of use the spoon or if you have like a small potato masher you can use that to crush them down a bit help it along and if you listen as you’re doing this you can hear some of the cranberries start to pop almost like popcorn [Music] just give them a stir every once in a while and see those skins starting to split open on them they’re starting to pop i’m going to lower my heat a little bit here we’ve got a good amount going i’m going down to about medium low on this induction burner and you will get some splatter from these so if you want to throw the lid on kind of cracked so it doesn’t completely seal it go ahead and as you stir it here you’ll start to feel them getting softer against the spoon some of them you can just press up against the side now you see they’re starting to crush they’re easily crushable here give them enough time so they start to pop and then you can help it along [Music] all right we’ve been going just about 10 minutes now as you can see we got a nice simmer going on here i’m gonna give it a stir and i wanna help these along now i’ve got my little potato masher here and i’m just gonna kind of crush them this help them break down and after we’re done cooking this we’re going to let it cool i’m going to transfer it to a glass bowl and it’s going to cool down in there and we’re going to serve it chilled we’re gonna taste it chilled on some turkey slices today and it’ll thicken up as it cools but right now this is getting close to the time we’re gonna turn off our induction burner so i wanna add one more ingredient and that is the zest of one lemon and it’s a small lemon it’s just a little bit but it does bring a little bit more brightness to this dish just helps these cranberries break down just use your spoon if you want to against the side and about now my temperature is down to low on here you can see we’ve got a nice consistency it’s thickening up nicely that is looking really good it’s not a blended smooth cranberry sauce you could definitely do that if you want to you could use an immersion blender but these are all broken down and giving up their juice really want to make sure that you don’t have any whole cranberries left they’re all going to be popped the skins are going to be separated but i want to give them a little bit of a crush just dragging your spoon through the bowl here pressing them against the side that really will do the job you got some little hole ones right there if they slip through it’s not gonna hurt anything they’re completely tender they’re just still kind of hanging on to their form love that color here all right i’m going to go ahead and turn off my induction burner and let’s transfer this to a glass bowl so it can chill down let’s get our cranberry sauce into a bowl so it can chill down get every little last bit out of the saucepan because that is red gold now i’m going to let this cool for about 30 to 45 minutes on the countertop and then i’m going to put it in the refrigerator for a couple hours before we have a taste all right our bourbon cranberry sauce is chilled i’ve got some nice slices of turkey here that are nice and hot let’s get some cranberry sauce on them this is gonna be good [Music] [Music] there is just something about cranberry sauce on turkey that i love the look of so i’m going to dive in here and have a taste but first i want to try just some of the cranberry sauce on top here see it’s got some nice chunks still it’s not a puree you do have some structure but all those cranberries are basically just mush that’s holding together that bourbon in there is the perfect ingredient to set this apart it just gives it that extra little bit of flavor so it’s not just cranberry sauce if you love cranberry sauce that’s fine i do but this is something different and this is something fantastic now let’s get some turkey with a little cranberry sauce on it here here we go to me this just screams fall it screams thanksgiving christmas that combination cranberry sauce turkey it goes fantastic together this is also terrific on pork and another thing is if you’ve got some ice cream especially some vanilla ice cream this makes a great topping to it this cranberry sauce i’d go for that this is a winner [Music] you