Cranberry Sauce
Quick answer
- Total time
- 20 min
- Level
- Easy
- Servings
- 9 servings
- Ingredients
- 3
About this dish
Fresh or frozen cranberries simmer briefly in sugar syrup and are then chilled, giving a tart, cold relish served in its own bowl beside roast turkey.
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Being a stovetop sauce, it never competes with the turkey for oven space. Sweetened dried cranberries are a different ingredient and will not work in this ratio. The sauce looks loose while hot, but its texture is judged after cooling, and a longer boil does not help. Cooling and refrigeration add time beyond the 20 minutes of active work, which pushes the start well ahead of the meal. Kept in a separate bowl, it lets each person decide how much sharpness and sweetness to add to the plate.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Put the sugar and water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring.
Use a US measuring cup, approximately 237 ml.
- 2
Add the cranberries.
Once the liquid boils again, lower the heat and maintain a gentle boil for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- 3
Remove from the heat, cover and let the sauce cool completely.
Refrigerate it until serving, then serve cold.
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- Fresh Cranberry Sauce
Ocean Spray · Checked: 2026-09-11