Ooh, saucy..
Posted: 24 December '09 by Niall
Cranberry sauce with port and orange
Turkey, stuffing, brussel sprouts, roasted potatoes and carrots.. Have you noticed what’s missing?
Cranberry sauce is one of the most important ingredients in the traditional Christmas dinner, a deliciously piquant sweet and sour accompaniment which cuts through all of the meaty flavours of the meal.
After making chutneys and jams during the year, I thought “Why rely on the usual store-bought sauce this Christmas?” To my mind, making your own sauce is a nice addition to your yule-tide meal – you’ve worked hard enough producing the rest, why let yourself down at the last by buying an over-sweet, preservative-filled cranberry sauce?
This recipe is very straight-forward and gives you a perfectly sweet, orange-infused cranberry sauce that would grace any table. And the aroma of all that port and orange fills the house with a real Christmas-y atmosphere. What more could you ask for!
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Ingredients
- 1 orange
- 175g/6oz caster sugar
- 5 tbsp port
- 359g/12oz cranberries, fresh or frozen
- 1, skinned, cored, and finely chopped
NB. You’ll also need an empty, washed jam-jar to store the sauce.
Method
- Heat the oven to 100 and place the washed jam-jar inside.
- Finely grate the zest from the orange
- Squeeze the juice from the zested orange into a separate bowl.
- Place the sugar, orange juice, and 4 tablespoons of port into a deep saucepan, and allow the sugar to dissolve into the liquid over a low heat, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in the cranberries, chopped apple and the orange zest.
- Raise the heat and cook the ingredients in the uncovered saucepan until the fruit is soft and is breaking down, and the juices are slightly thickened.
- Stir in the remaining 1 tbsp port.
- Remove the warmed jam-jar from the oven, making sure to protect your hands, and spoon the cranberry sauce into the jar. Place the cap on the jar.
- Set the jar aside on a heat-protected surface to cool.
Enjoy.
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Categories: Featured Post > Jams and Preserves > Recipes
