Homemade Cranberry Sauce is Easy to Make

It is a healthy cranberry sauce recipe you’re looking for? Don’t underestimate the power of cranberries. They’re really good for digestion. They provide a nice contrast to all of that heavy, rich food served at Thanksgiving. If you want a great, simple cranberry sauce recipe to make from scratch, this is it.

What else about cranberries? They’re a natural diuretic. They purify the blood. They’re acidic so they blast through fat. There’s just so many good things about the tart and tangy cranberry.

Quick Healthy Cranberry Sauce from Scratch

Here’s a quick recipe for a fresh cranberry orange side dish to round out your Thanksgiving, or any meal where meat is the feature.

One bag frozen cranberries
Half a cup sugar
Half a cup water
One packet gelatin powder
6 Clementine oranges
Zest of one orange
3 tablespoons chai tea mix

Simple Spicy Simmer Pot to Enhance Your Cranberry Sauce

The secret ingredient that really makes this cranberry sauce recipe top notch, is the chai mix. It’s basically warming spices simmered in a pot for a half an hour or so. Some people have this in their kitchen to make a tea. If you don’t normally do this, here’s how.

Just take a bunch of warming spices like a cinnamon stick, three or four cloves, a few black peppercorns, and a little fresh ginger and smash it all up any mortar and pestle.
Fill up a quart pot with water. Bring the spices to a boil, then simmer for about half an hour until the liquid is 1/3 evaporated.
Set that aside.

Now, Bring it All Together

It’s time to make the cranberry sauce. Here’s how!

In another pot, add all of the listed ingredients except the fresh oranges. Bring to a boil.
Lower the heat and let simmer for 5 minutes.
Stir. The gelatin should have evaporated and the sugar dissolved.
Remove from heat. Do something else while this mixture cools.
Once your cranberry liquid has reached room temperature, peel all of the Clementine oranges and add in the sectioned pieces.
Pour everything into a Pyrex container with lid and refrigerate until gelled.

Keep cold until ready to serve.

Around the Web with Cranberries and Fruit

Cranberries combine well with other fruits. Looking for something different for your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce recipe? Here’s a recipe for cranberry apple sauce from Meggan Hill. And try cranberry pineapple sauce from Carlsbad Cravings, here.

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