Homemade Cranberry Sauce – Easy Cranberry Sauce Recipe Everyone Loves

Homemade Cranberry Sauce that everyone loves. This delicious cranberry recipe is easy to make, it only takes a few ingredients, and best of all you can make it the day before. It’s the perfect make-ahead dish for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.

Easy Cranberry Sauce

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

It’s that time of year again. The time where you see pumpkins, cranberries and all of fall’s freshest farmers market produce, like squash, apples, sweet potatoes, and pears.

My family hasn’t always loved cranberry sauce. In fact, growing up my mom used to just open up a can of cranberry sauce and put it on a plate. That was my whole experience of what cranberry sauce is.

And having that memory of a giant pile of solid cranberry on a plate never seemed very appetizing. That’s why I decided my kids weren’t going to grow up with canned cranberry sauce on a plate.

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I set out to make a super simple and very tasty cranberry sauce that the kids would love.

How to Make Cranberry Sauce

This recipe only calls for 3 ingredients and it’s so easy to make.

• 1 pound fresh or frozen cranberries (4 cups)
• 2 cups of water
• 2 cups sugar or sugar substitute

If you want to take this homemade cranberry sauce up a notch substitute 1 cup water for 1 cup orange juice

So how do you make this recipe – It’s simple.

1. Rinse cranberries with water, and remove any stems or blemished berries.
2. Heat water and sugar to boiling in 3-quart saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
3. Continue boiling 5 minutes longer, stirring occasionally.
4. Stir in cranberries. Heat to boiling over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
5. Continue boiling about 5 minutes longer, occasionally stirring, until cranberries begin to break down to your desired consistency.
6. Pour sauce into bowl or container. Refrigerate about 3 hours or until chilled.
Serve and Enjoy! 

This is an easy recipe that you can make ahead of time which is fantastic for anyone that is cooking a big Thanksgiving dinner.

We all know how important it is to have a few things done the day before.

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

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