Make the holidays easier by cooking this fresh cranberry sauce in your slow cooker!
The holidays are going to be tough this year. We are not sure if we will be gone, here or spending it with family. It's going to be tough but wherever we spend it we will be fun because we are family.
I've been responsible for making Thanksgiving dinners in the past and one of the things that I can always use a helping hand with is multi tasking the days food. We always start with a good breakfast because we love to spend it outdoors. Whether we are hunting or shooting, playing football with friends, going to the park, or spending the day indoors baking we love to make sure that we start the day with a good breakfast.
When I fell across this recipe this year I was excited! I love cranberry sauce--FRESH cranberry sauce, not the canned nasty stuff that grandma plops from the can onto a plate that retains it's rigid form.
This is an easy cranberry sauce that you make in your slow cooker! This recipe is naturally sweetened and delicious with a hint of orange in every bite.
Hint: You will want to save some of this sauce because I've got a great leftover turkey recipe using this slow cooker cranberry sauce recipe!
Make the holidays easier by cooking this fresh cranberry sauce in your slow cooker!
Ingredients
- 12 oz fresh cranberries
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- ⅛ tsp salt
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a slow cooker. Stir to combine.
- Cook on high for 2 ½ hours or low for 4 hours.
- Stir the sauce before transferring it to a bowl. Serve sauce.
- To serve: Serve warm straight from the crockpot, allow the mixture to cool and serve at room temperature, make this sauce ahead of time (it can be chilled in the refrigerator up to three days ahead of Thanksgiving or for three days after Thanksgiving).
Notes
To Make This Recipe Faster: Place all ingredients in a saucepan and heat to a boil over medium high heat. Reduce the heat to medium once boiling, than allow the cranberries to simmer until tender--approximately 10 minutes.
This looks delicious.
That sounds so good! And I love that it uses natural sweeteners over sugar.
You're Thanksgivings sound like a great time and you have such a good attitude...here or there you're together.
Thanks for the cranberry recipe. Cranberry sauce goes with so many other things after turkey day, I love it!
Love the idea of making cranberry sauce in your slow cooker so you can free up the stove for other things!