homemade cranberry sauce

🍊🍒 This homemade cranberry sauce is the perfect balance of tart and sweet, with a pop of fresh citrus that makes it so much better than anything canned. It comes together in just 15 minutes and will completely upgrade your holiday table.

In this video, I’ll show you step by step how to make cranberry sauce with fresh or frozen cranberries, a touch of sugar, and orange zest for brightness. It’s quick, foolproof, and can be made ahead of time—so you can stress less on the big day.

Once you try this recipe, you’ll never go back to store-bought. Serve it with turkey, spread it on leftover sandwiches, or even spoon it over cheesecake for a festive twist.

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[Music] So, I’m going to go ahead and add my water and my sugar. Bring that to a boil. And then I’m going to add in my cranberries, my juice of one orange, and the zest of one orange. And then we’re going to let that simmer for like 10 minutes so that it thickens up. [Music] We don’t have to add any corn starch, nothing else. The pectin in the cranberries is going to thicken it up itself. I would say after it starts thickening to reduce the heat down to medium once it thickens up. All right, I’m going to turn off the heat. So, after about 10 minutes, you can see it’s thickened up and it’s going to continue to thicken as it cools. This is totally optional, but I’m going to use an immersion blender to just kind of break up any remaining cranberries. And we’re going to just put this into a bowl and let it cool down and then it’ll be ready to use. This is definitely something that you could make the day before. Just put some plastic wrap on top so that the plastic wrap is touching the surface of the cranberries so that you don’t get a skin and then it’ll be fully cooled down before you put it in your cookies. [Music]