The Best Homemade Cranberry Sauce

The Best Homemade Cranberry Sauce

from eatingwell.com
Side Dish
20 min
16 servings
34 kcal / serving

This is our go-to recipe for homemade cranberry sauce. It's simple (just five ingredients!), is lightly sweet without being too sugary and has just the right amount of zesty flavor from orange peel. Plus, it's so easy--it goes from stove to table in just 20 minutes!

Ingredients

  • 1bag fresh cranberries
  • 1 cupwater
  • ½ cupsugar
  • 21-by-4-inch strips orange peel
  • kosher salt

Directions

  1. 1

    Place cranberries, water, sugar, orange peel and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to maintain a simmer and cook, stirring often, until most of the cranberries have burst, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the orange peel. Serve at room temperature or chilled.