Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Cranberry Sauce

We made cranberry sauce from scratch this year with some unusual ingredients.  We got the recipe from B.

This dish is inherently not photogenic:


2 tablespoons vegetable oil
6 cups fresh cranberries
the zest of one lemon or 1/2 orange
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger

1 full bottle Pinot Noir or other dry red wine (we used our wedding wine)
1.5 cups of sugar

1 tsp of Chinese five-spice powder

Heat oil in large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add cranberries, zest and fresh ginger; stir until cranberries begin to burst, 3-5 minutes.

Add wine and sugar; boil until mixture is reduced, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes.

Remove from heat Add five-spice powder.

It was so delicious J. was just eating it with a spoon, by itself.

Remade on:
2014-11-28 for Thanksgiving, Part 2
2014-12-20 for smoked turkey w/L. & Z.


1 comment:

  1. I sincerely can't believe how well these turned out. Removing the curry and adding the orange brought out the flavors like crazy. Even my dad ate these, and he's super picky :)

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