A fresh and delicious homemade cranberry sauce recipe made with only 3 simple ingredients! Just as easy as the canned sauce, but with so much more flavor!
Prep Time: 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 10 minutesminutes
Total Time: 15 minutesminutes
Servings: 12
Ingredients
1 ½cupsfresh cranberries(12 ounce bag)
1cupgranulated sugar
1orange
PinchKosher salt
½cupwater
Instructions
Gather ingredients. Zest the orange and then cut in half. Juice the orange into a small bowl and remove any seeds.
Place cranberries, sugar, fresh orange juice, orange zest, salt and water in a medium sauce pan. Bring to a light boil over medium heat.
Continue to cook until the cranberries have burst and it has thickened (about 10 minutes). Mash the cranberries if you prefer a smoother sauce.
Remove from heat and put the sauce in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Notes
This is a sweet cranberry sauce. If you'd like more of a bitter taste, cut the sugar in half. If you'd like to use a natural sweetener, you can use pure honey or 100% pure maple syrup.