Maple Sweetened Orange Cranberry Sauce
This is so easy and SO much better than canned, make this 4 ingredient cranberry sauce sweetened with maple syrup and orange juice in about 10 minutes for your holiday meal - or any time you're craving cranberry sauce!
Servings: 2 cups
Calories: 48kcal
Ingredients
- 1 12 ounce bag cranberries, fresh or frozen
- 1 cup unsweetened orange juice
- 3/4 cup pure maple syrup*
- zest from 1 orange, about 1 tablespoon
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients in a medium sized saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Lower heat to maintain a very soft boil and cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. The berries will start to pop and the sauce thicken. Mash as desired while stirring (if you'd like a smoother sauce, use an immersion blender before storing the sauce and it will gel a bit like canned jellied sauce).
- Transfer sauce to a lidded container and store in the refrigerator for up to a week before serving (the sauce thickens even more as it cools). Serve either cold or at room temperature.
Notes
*I use 3/4 cup maple syrup which makes a tart-sweet sauce - increase syrup to 1 cup if you'd like a sweeter sauce.
Make Ahead: the sauce can be made up to a week ahead and stored in an airtight container in the fridge. I've found it will store in fridge for about 3 weeks as leftovers.
Nutrition
Serving: 2tablespoons | Calories: 48kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 2mg | Potassium: 65mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 31IU | Vitamin C: 8mg | Calcium: 18mg | Iron: 1mg
