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My family loves cranberry sauce. Not the awful stuff from the can but the real thing simmered on the stove and passed through a mouli to make it smooth (although there are those who argue for the whole berry sauce). If I could only get these traditionalists to move on! Does anyone have a good recipe for cranberry sauce which takes it to a new place?
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20 Comments:
My sister makes her cranberry sauce with red wine, orange peel, and cloves, and it's the most amazing cranberry sauce I've ever had. She probably got the recipe either from Gourmet or Martha Stewart's Living.
AdamH at 8:58PM on 11/07/07
Try adding a little liqueur - Grand Marnier, brandy, just a teaspoon of good bourbon. Just to get them off their duffs. Or just a pinch of cayenne. Move them slowly. Or do something radical and put both on the table. Interesting about the Mouli. What would happen if you just dumped it into the food processor?
lemons at 9:01PM on 11/07/07
cranberry persimmon sauce with ginger! or you could dice a peeled quince or asian pear into 1/4 inch pieces and substitute it in place of the two persimmons.
ingredients:
2 hachiya persimmons, pulp removed and roughly chopped (approximately 1 and 1/4 cups)
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
1 12 ounce bag fresh canberries
1/2 cup dried cranberries
2 cups apple cider
3/4 cups sugar, preferably evaporate cane sugar
pinch salt
add the persimmons, ginger, cranberries, cider, sugar, and salt to a medium pot. cover and bring to a boil. uncover, and simmer rapidly until the mixture has reduced, thickened, and become saucy, about 45 minutes. cool to room temperature. the relish can be made up to a week in advance (keep refrigerated).
tudogostoso at 9:26PM on 11/07/07
I'm a big, big fan of Martha Stewart's Cranberry Sauce with Cognac.
raphael at 10:12PM on 11/07/07
Chambord liquor and star anise.
JerzeeTomato at 10:29PM on 11/07/07
I just posted a awesome cranberry sauce in the recent canning post. It's really great, it's a whole berry with port wine! Our thanksgiving is over (I'm Canadian), so I'm making some for Christmas!
Lilartist at 12:07AM on 11/08/07
Throw chocolate chips into it. (Just kidding...)
Try cooking the cranberries with star anise.
Add some chopped crystallized ginger.
Add some dried cherries to the cranberries as they cook.
As far as getting people to "move on," that's almost a lost cause at T-Giving! :D
therealchiffonade at 5:17AM on 11/08/07
I've eaten ones that contained dried or canned sweet cherries. Adding pecans & walnuts is a good option, too.
JEP at 5:53AM on 11/08/07
Instead of basic cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, our family tradition is cranberry casserole. I mix cranberries, apples and sugar, then I top them with a streusel of quick oats, melted butter, brown sugar, flour and chopped pecans. I have asked to change it, but my family protests every time I ask.
Mich23 at 9:04AM on 11/08/07
i've used this recipe for a couple of years: cranberry and roasted shallot sauce, except i use about half of the shallots the recipe calls for. i love savory more than sweet, so this sauce does it for me. i can't guarantee that others will like it, though. i've had people turn their nose up at it because it wasn't sweet. oh well, more for me. :)
french tart at 9:09AM on 11/08/07
Here's my recipe for a mulled wine cranberry sauce. It's just enough different to be interesting, yet still well within the realm of "traditional." I make a big batch and leave half plain and dress up the rest with orange supremes, unsweetened coconut, and toasted chopped walnuts to make more of a relish.
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 9:20AM on 11/08/07
I agree about the cherries -- I'm obsessed with sour cherries, so when they're in season (all 10 minutes of it) I buy as many as I can, pit them and then freeze them. So I toss a bunch of them into my cranberry sauce, along with some whiskey and a pinch each of cloves, salt and black pepper.
tudogostoso - I LOVE your persimmon idea - I just may have to try that this year!
CookiePie at 10:51AM on 11/08/07
Last year I used a Dave Lieberman recipe that involved lemon zest and fennel seeds. It got rave reviews... makes it a little more savory.
QueenHerm at 11:17AM on 11/08/07
Last year I made a spicy cranberry chutney that used crystallized ginger. I don't have the recipe on me but google it. I found it online.
-It may have been at Epicurous, as I used that website a lot for Thanksgiving 2006.
CanadianFoodieGirl at 11:26AM on 11/08/07
not for nothing, but i love the stuff out of the can.
carriebwc at 11:33AM on 11/08/07
This past (Canadian) Thanksgiving, we threw in a quince, some dragonfruit and half a prickly pear, cut up small, along with the normal fresh cranberries, orange and sugar. No recipe - just made it up as we went along, based on the cool things we found at the farmer's market that day. It worked so, so well.
Peasantwench at 12:54PM on 11/08/07
I make it differently every year. One of the favorites is with cranberry juice instead of water and a good portion of port. Somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2c. sugar to taste. Throw in about 3 cinnamon sticks broken in half and some dried sour or black cherries or cranberries. I've used diced pear, clementine sections, crystallized ginger, pommegranate seeds (use pom juice instead of cranberry juice), you can just be so inventive! Just start with a good splush of liquor in there like the port, cherry brandy or kirsch and you're off to a good start! The kitchen just couldn't smell any better and with the liquor on the sauce it lasts in the fridge for quite some time - long after the turkey is gone, sorry to say...
frederika at 3:00PM on 11/08/07
Oops, meant to say "in" the sauce, not "on" and I haven't really been been on the sauce today yet!
frederika at 3:15PM on 11/08/07
Here's a recipe for Chunky Apple-Cranberry Sauce. I do like adding orange to cranberry sauce but this one is surely different!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 4:07PM on 11/08/07
There was a great recipe I used years ago which had bourbon and black pepper. Not too far from traditional, but more in the savory direction.
haneway at 5:16PM on 11/08/07