Brown Sugar Orange Cranberry Sauce is an easy recipe for homemade cranberry sauce. Simmer fresh cranberries with brown sugar for a depth of flavor and stir in orange zest for a hint of citrus. So easy you’ll wonder why you haven’t made a homemade cranberry sauce before!
Homemade Cranberry Sauce Recipe
It’s so easy to make your own homemade cranberry sauce that you’ll never want to buy that canned stuff again! Just simmer fresh cranberries with a bit of water and brown sugar then stir in fresh orange zest for a bright citrus flavor. That’s it!
Brown Sugar Orange Cranberry Sauce. Pure clean cranberry sauce that you made yourself in a matter of minutes with all natural ingredients. Homemade cranberry sauce doesn’t get much easier than this!
Fun Facts About Cranberries
Are you curious about that bag of fresh cranberries with the gorgeous ruby color? Well then, here are some interesting facts about that little cranberry from Ocean Spray:
- Legend has it that the Pilgrims served cranberries at the first Thanksgiving dinner in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- The cranberry is one of only three native fruits cultivated in North America. Others are the blueberry and the Concord grape.
- There are about 450 cranberries in a pound.
- A barrel of cranberries weighs 100 pounds.
- Cranberries bounce because they have small pockets of air inside of them. This air also makes them float in water so they are easy to harvest in water.
- Americans eat a total of about 400 pounds of cranberries each year. About twenty percent of the cranberries are eaten during the week of Thanksgiving!
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Ingredients you will need to make this recipe
- fresh cranberries
- dark brown sugar
- water
- orange zest
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- 1 package (12 ounces) fresh cranberries
- 1 1/4 cups packed dark brown sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 tsp. orange zest
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Combine fresh cranberries, brown sugar and water in saucepot.
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Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
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Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until cranberries have popped and mixture has thickened, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.
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Remove from heat and stir in orange zest.
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Refrigerate until chilled.
Makes 2 1/2 cups.
[…] with salad, potatoes and vegetables and I’ll be a happy girl! But wait, I’ll need some Brown Sugar Orange Cranberry Sauce and Easy Gluten Free Quinoa Gravy to go with my rainbow-filled plate of deliciousness! […]