Beyond Delicious Cranberry Sauce!

14 years ago

I just made this and I know it will be gone by Thanksgiving and I will have to make more. And I made a double batch!

I used a large can of mandarin oranges, and used the juice for a portion of the water. Then I just chopped them. I used Sunmaid Fruit Bits (apricots, raisins, cherries, apples, peaches, plums) and Craisins for the dried fruit and a fresh granny smith apple. And canned pears. And I only used 1 cup of sugar even though I doubled everything else.

CRANBERRY SAUCE EXTRAORDINAIRE

Ingredients

Â 1 cup granulated sugar

Â 1 cup water

Â 1 (12 ounce) package ocean spray cranberries

Â 1 orange, peeled and pureed (plus I like some zest)

Â 1 apple, peeled and diced

Â 1 pear, peeled and diced

Â 1 cup dried mixed fruit

Â 1 cup pecans, chopped

Â 1/2 teaspoon salt

Â 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Â 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Directions

Boil the water and sugar in a medium saucepan until dissolved.

Reduce heat.

Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature before serving or storing.

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Comments (11)

lindac
14 years ago
Wow.....you could just put that into a pie crust for me!
What kind of dried fruits did you use?
Linda C
beachlily z9a
14 years ago
Sounds wonderful! I'm going to try it. Haven't done the shopping yet, so that's a plus.
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tropicals9b
Original Author
14 years ago
Linda - the Sunmaid Fruit Bits (apricots, raisins, cherries, apples, peaches, plums) are dried fruit. And they are already cut into very small pieces! And they are on sale at Publix today for $2.00 for about 1.5 cup bag. I added the Craisins to make it 2 cups of dried fuit.

This is so good! I like it tart, so you may want to use the full amount of sugar if you like it sweet.
tropicals9b
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14 years ago
We just had a spanish food dinner party for my husband, but everyone tasted the cranberry sauce and loved it.

And the dinner was so delicious. My stepmom is Panamanian and made mojo pork butt, yellow rice, black beans and sweet fried plantains. And yellow cake with fudge frosting for dessert!
trsinc
14 years ago
Oooh, that sounds great!! Thanks for posting.
riverrat1
14 years ago
Yum! Copied and pasted for Thanksgiving dinner!

We usually have Cranberry Jezabell but this may be the change in Thankgiving dinner! Thanks
paulines
14 years ago
Thank you so much tropicals9b for posting this recipe - it is truly beyond delicious!

Made this sauce (although it came out more of a chutney or almost a filling as Linda mentioned with the changes I made) last night and we couldn't stop eating it, lol

I used a little better than 1/2 cup sugar w/1 cup water, 2 bags fresh cranberries, 2 cups dried fruit (cherries, blueberries and apricots), 2 small cans mandarin oranges, the zest from 1 orange, 1 apple, 1 pear and the rest of ingred. as written.
tropicals9b
Original Author
14 years ago
Paulines - it looks like you doubled everything but the water? Maybe that's why your's is thicker? Don't get me wrong, even with two cups of water it is very thick and chunky and probably could easily be used as pie filling!

I can't wait to have it on a turkey, stuffing, mayo and cranberry sauce sandwich the day after Thanksgiving!
dancingqueengw
14 years ago
We have family with nut allergies do you think I could just leave them out and put in more of the fruit bits?
tropicals9b
Original Author
14 years ago
Absolutely! Will still be great!
paulines
14 years ago
LOL, I think you're right.

Originally used 1 bag cranberries, but DD said it didn't look cranberry enough, so we added 1/2 and then the rest of the 2nd bag. Of course, had to add more dried fruit then.

I agree DQ, the recipe will be fine w/o nuts.

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