Easy, Make Ahead Cranberry Orange Sauce

Once you try this simple, make ahead Cranberry Orange Sauce, you'll never buy the canned stuff at the grocery store again. This recipe has only 6 ingredients and is ready after 15 minutes on the stove. With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it's time to start thinking about what you're going to serve with that turkey. This cranberry orange sauce is essential! Enjoy

Cranberry Orange Sauce (adapted from Sally's Baking Addiction)
Ingredients
12 ounce bag cranberries, rinsed
3/4 cup (150g) water
1/4 cup (60ml) fresh orange juice (about 1/2 large orange)
3/4 cup (150g) packed light or dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon orange zest
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
½ teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions
You need fresh orange juice and orange zest. I recommend zesting the orange first, setting the zest aside, then cutting the orange for the juice. (Harder to zest a cut orange!) You need about half of a large orange for 1/4 cup juice. Juice the other half of the orange if you need more to yield 1/4 cup.
After rinsing the cranberries, set 1/2 cup cranberries aside. You will stir these in at the end for extra texture.
Combine the remaining cranberries, water, orange juice, and brown sugar together in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir occasionally as the mixture comes to a simmer.
Once simmering, reduce heat to low-medium. While stirring occasionally, continue to cook until liquid has reduced and cranberries have burst and thickened, about 10 more minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 cup reserved cranberries, orange zest, vanilla extract and cinnamon. Sauce will continue to thicken as it cools.

[The_Bakers_Loft]

Homemade cranberry sauce is absolutely the best. I added orange and cinnamon to this cranberry sauce. How do you like your Cranberry Sauce?

[arduakay]

I love your demeanor and teaching style! Thank you for the recipe, I'll be trying this one out for our Thanksgiving menu this year!