Fall Brings… Cranberry Sauce
I know fall is upon us when I see fresh cranberries in the grocery store. My boys love cranberry sauce and I have a special recipe that I make for them that includes ginger and dried apricots. Here it is...
1 pound fresh cranberries
1 ½ cups water
½ cup dried apricots, cut into quarters
¼ cup currants
2 tablespoons agave nectar
¼ teaspoon ginger zest
1 teaspoon orange zest
- Pick through the cranberries, discarding the soft and rotten ones, wash the rest
- Place cranberries and water in pot, bring to a boil and then turn down to a simmer for 10 minutes
- Add the apricots and currants, simmer for five minutes
- Add agave, orange and ginger zest and simmer five minutes
Serve as a snack or over turkey!
Posted on November 10, 2006 in condiments by Elana
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Elana thank you again for another wonderful holiday recipe. I made your honey cake for Rosh Hashanah and I made your cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving. It was amazing! I was nervous-this was my first attempt at making cranberry sauce from scratch. It was so easy and delicious. This is definitely a new Thanksgiving staple. Thanks Elana and Happy Holidays!
Kate,
You are welcome and so glad you liked it. This recipe is a favorite in my house.
Happy Holidays!
Elana
I tried out your cranberry sauce. It was really great. Thanks for posting it.
B,
You are welcome :-)
Elana
This was excellent! I added a total of 4 Tbsp of agave, since my family likes it sweet (and my dad still added further sweetener). I could see this being a great topping to chicken, turkey, brisket, salads, grapefruit, smoothies, chocolate cake, cheesecake, etc. :) I especially liked the stewed apricot bits (my husband even ate the apricot bits and he dislikes apricots) and may try making the two of us a batch with more apricots so I can cut back to 2 Tbsp of agave.
This is probably something I should know but don't - what is ginger zest? I've never hear of it and to me zest is always related to citrus. I'm looking for a good cranberry sauce recipe so now I just need to know what ginger zest is. Thanks.
Rachel