Cranberry sauce, due to its spicy sweet and sour taste, is a unique dressing that is ideal for both meat dishes and desserts. In some countries, including North America and the UK, dressing is served with meat and poultry dishes. Often, cranberry sauce becomes an addition to cheese dishes.
Sauce preparation time varies from 5 minutes to half an hour.
Product Preparation
Better to use fresh berries. But if frozen cranberries are taken for cooking, you do not need to defrost it first. The defrosting process will only increase the cooking time. In addition, it is more convenient to sort and rinse frozen berries.
Rinse and sort out the fresh cranberries. After washing, we discard it into a colander after washing. Then grind in mashed potatoes with a sieve or in a blender.
Culinary Tricks Used in Cranberry Sauce Recipes
- To avoid seeds in the sauce, it is recommended to wipe the dressing through a sieve. This will help to remove small bones and make the sauce more uniform.
- The amount of sugar in each recipe is indicated conditionally: its amount is determined depending on taste preferences. Sugar can also be replaced with honey.
- When serving sauce to various dishes, it is important to consider the temperature of the sauce. Cold dressing is more suitable for meat, at room temperature for confectionery.
- Vinegar in the recipe can be replaced with table wine.
Cranberry Meat Recipe
The combination of meat and sweet and sour dressing may seem odd to many. But it is the sauce with these taste indicators that will help to reveal the whole charm of the dish. Refueling also contributes to the accelerated assimilation of meat without feeling heavy.
Cranberry meat sauce is prepared from the following ingredients:
- Fresh or frozen cranberries - 200 gr.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 35 gr.
- Apple cider vinegar - 45 ml.
- Boiled water - 100 ml.
- Salt is a pinch.
- Ground cinnamon and black pepper - a couple of pinches.
Refueling Method:
Step 1. Wash the berries, dry them slightly and sort out, removing defective (crushed, unripe, rotten) fruits.
Step 2. We chop the onion.
Step 3. Cranberries in mashed potatoes in any way convenient for you.
Step 4. Mix the prepared onions and mashed cranberry puree in a saucepan.
Step 5. Pour boiled water.
Step 6. After waiting for boiling, boil another 10 minutes over low heat.
Step 7. Turn off and let the gas station cool. Grind the sauce with a blender or in a meat grinder into a mass of homogeneous consistency.
Step 8. Do not forget to add spices: cinnamon, pepper, salt and sugar. Pour in the vinegar.
Step 9. After mixing, return to the fire: boil until the desired consistency is achieved. If the process drags on, and the dressing seems excessively liquid, thicken with starch.
The sauce is ready: it will be perfectly combined with beef or veal.
Cranberry Sauce Recipe for Poultry Using Citrus
What you need to take:
- Cranberries - 400 gr.
- Oranges.
- Sugar: determine the amount of taste.
We take so many oranges so that from them it is possible to squeeze 100 ml of juice and remove half a glass of zest.
Refueling Method:
Step 1. In the pan, lay the crumpled cranberries.
Step 2. Add the remaining ingredients to it.
Step 3. We are waiting for boiling and simmer over low heat.
Step 4. We achieve the necessary consistency, then grind everything in a blender.
Cranberry sauce according to this recipe will be the perfect complement to turkey and chicken meat.
Gourmet Cranberries, Nuts & Raisins Sauce
What you need to take:
- Cranberries - 600 gr.
- Raisins - 75 gr.
- Nuts (pecans) - 60-80 gr.
- Sugar - about 100 gr.
- Water - 200 ml.
- Orange zest from 1 fruit.
- Ground nutmeg and cinnamon - 0.5 tsp each.
Refueling Method:
Step 1. Grind cranberries with sugar.
Step 2. Dilute cranberries with sugar with water and bring to a boil: simmer another 7 minutes.
Step 3. Add chopped nuts, washed and dried raisins. Do not forget about spices and orange zest.
Meat and poultry will sparkle with new flavors if served along with cranberry sauce prepared according to this recipe.
Fresh Ginger Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients for Cranberry Sauce:
- Cranberries - 250 gr.
- Lemon zest - tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp.
- Water –3 tbsp
- Sugar - 75 gr.
- Freshly grated ginger - 1 tbsp.
Refueling Method:
Step 1. Grind the berries with sugar.
Step 2. Dilute with water.
Step 3. After boiling, add the remaining ingredients: ginger, cinnamon, zest.
Step 4. Boil after boiling for 4-5 minutes: the sauce is ready.
This sauce is more suitable for desserts.
Cranberry sauce without heat treatment
Ingredients:
- Fresh cranberries - 250 gr.
- Oranges - 150 gr.
- Sugar - 100 gr.
Refueling Method
We washed and sorted cranberries with orange (all its components, it is permissible to remove the seeds), we pass through a meat grinder. Grind with sugar.
Harmoniously sauce is suitable for turkey meat.
Pastry Sauce
Ingredients:
- Cranberries - 400 gr.
- Apple - 1 pc. (about 100-120 gr.).
- Orange is half.
- Walnut Kernels - 100 gr.
- Sugar - 50 gr.
The method of preparation of cranberry sauce (photo below)
Each ingredient, except sugar, is individually ground with a blender: in this case, the consistency will be more uniform. Grind, combine and add sugar.
The sauce is ready - it will be the perfect complement to pancakes and sweet pastries.
Cranberry Sauce with Honey Cheese
Ingredients:
- Cranberries - 200 gr.
- Grape Juice - 100 ml.
- Honey - 60 gr.
- Walnut kernels - 2 tbsp. l
- Provencal herbs - 1 tsp.
Refueling Method
Step 1. Grind cranberries and mix with juice.
Step 2. We put on a slow fire and warm up before the boiling process begins.
Step 3. Add honey.
Step 4. Remove from heat and add nuts and herbs.
The sauce goes well with cheese, but you can also season meat dishes with it.