If you do anything homemade this Thanksgiving please let it be the cranberry sauce because it’s so easy and tastes nothing like the store-bought stuff. I despise the jellied canned stuff and hate it when someone brings it. I do love to have homemade cranberry sauce with my turkey and I have developed a palate for sweet and tart with savory.
When I bought the cranberries this year I had in mind to try something different other than apples with my cranberries and cherries seemed perfect. I bought a bag of frozen sweet cherries and cooked the cranberries and cherries in orange juice and sugar. There is so much more you could add to this sauce, but I actually liked it rather simple. Make this sauce a day in advance and let sit in the refrigerator and it tastes really good the next day and thereafter. Cranberry sauce goes perfectly with turkey sandwiches too 🙂 so enjoy those leftovers.
Cranberry Cherry Sauce
6 ounces of fresh cranberries (half a 12 0z. bag)
1/2 cup sweet dark cherries (I used frozen)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup orange juice
zest of one orange
Directions:
Step 1: Rinse the cranberries and add all ingredients to a medium-size saucepan and cook over medium heat until it has cooked down and thickened, about 20 min. Refrigerate covered overnight and serve at room temperature with turkey.
Here are a couple of links to some other cranberry sauce recipes:
I love the idea of cranberries and cherries combined. So pretty too Suzanne!
Thank you Chris, I love trying different fruits with my cranberries!