Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce | Heath Riles BBQ

A bright, sweet-heat cranberry sauce made with fresh orange, turbinado sugar, and Heath Riles BBQ Brown Sugar Honey Habanero Glaze for a bold holiday twist. Ready in about 20 minutes, this homemade sauce is thick, glossy, and far better than anything from a can.

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• Heath Riles BBQ Brown Sugar Honey Habanero BBQ Glaze https://www.heathrilesbbq.com/collections/heath-riles-bbq-sauces/products/brown-sugar-honey-habanero-bbq-glaze
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Ingredients:
• 12oz bag of Cranberries
• 1tsp pure vanilla
• 1/2 cup of water
• 1 orange, juiced
• 1tsp orange zest
• 1/2 cup of Turbinado Brown Sugar
• 1/2 cup of Heath Riles BBQ Brown Sugar Honey Habanero BBQ Glaze

Directions:
1. Heat a saucepan over medium heat. Add most of the cranberries, water, orange zest, and orange juice.
2. Cover and simmer until cranberries begin to pop.
3. Stir in brown sugar, the Brown Sugar Honey Habanero Glaze, and vanilla.
4. Cook 15–20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thickened.
5. Stir in the reserved whole cranberries and remove from heat.
6. Cool slightly; sauce will continue to thicken as it rests.

Chapters:
Intro 0:00
Cook Cranberries 0:13
Add Other Ingredients 1:13
Continue to Cook 1:51
Recap 2:23
Taste Test 2:45
Outro 3:24

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Let’s make easy homemade cranberry sauce. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Let’s make my version of homemade cranberry sauce. First thing you want to do is start with a 12 oz bag of cranberries. Now, I’ve got my pot heated up right here. I just turned it on. I don’t have anything in it yet. Starting to heat up now. Now I’m going to save a little bit of these cranberries for the end to stir in just to give it a little bit of texture. Now we’re going to go in with a half a cup of water. Now we’re going to take one orange and you can see we’ve already zested some off here. Let’s get the juice of one orange. Now once you get that that going, you want to let your stuff kind of come to a boil before you start adding any of the liquid. But I am going to add in the orange zest right now. I’ve got maybe a little over a teaspoon or a teaspoon. Now, while all that’s going starting to get warm, I’m just going to put a lid on it and let it start getting warm. And then we’re going to start adding the brown sugar and the brown sugar honey habanero. All right, our cranberries are starting to boil. As you can see, some of them I can hear them on the bottom wanting to pop. And that’s what they’re steady going to do. They’re going to pop. Now I’m going to take a half a cup of Turbanado organic brown sugar here and add in. Now once we pop those in, I’m going to come back with about a half a cup of our brown sugar honey habanero syrup. Now time for the magic. About a teaspoon of pure vanilla. Now we’ll just set back till they start all popping and make some good oldfashioned cranberry sauce. All right, all those cranberries are just about busted. I’m going to go ahead and add in these last few and get them going a few minutes. And this ain’t going to like much. Well, that’s about it. In between 15 and 20 minutes, you can create perfect made from scratch cranberry sauce. So, it’s completely up to you if you want the jelly out of the can or you want the real thing you can make in a pot with a little bit unique flavor. All right, let’s talk about this cranberry sauce. We took 12 oz of cranberries in a bag. Threw them in a pot that was heating up with a little bit of water, a little bit of orange juice, some orange zest, a little bit of brown sugar, and a little bit of our brown sugar honey habanero glaze. All we did was let it boil down, let those cranberries pop before we added those last few cranberries to leave them whole. And now you can see this is still hot in the bowl. And it’s already thickened up a good bit, but as this sets here and cools, the natural cranberries that popped will thicken this up. Just trust me when I say that. It will not be jell- like out of a can spray, but it will be a lot thicker and a lot more pliable. Now, I can tell y’all this hot, but I’m going to get in here and I’m going to taste a little bit of this just for y’all. All right, hands down, grandma’s out for Thanksgiving. Eat is in. Remember that when you’re making your next classic cranberry sauce. If you like these recipes that we put a twist on, be sure to tell us below. Maybe send us some points. Maybe give us a like. Maybe give us a share. Who knows? You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, and of course YouTube. I’ll see you guys next week with another video.