Cranberry Orange Sauce Recipe (2024)

Cranberry Orange Sauce is a Thanksgiving staple in our house. It's incredibly easy to make Cranberry Orange Sauce from scratch that even the most novice cook can master it and the flavors are so much brighter than the canned stuff you find at the store. It's very possibly one of the easiest Thanksgiving side dishes to make.

Cranberry Orange Sauce is a delicious must for Thanksgiving along withCheesecloth Turkey, or Cajun Turkey Recipe if you like a little kick, and of coarse you can't forget the Crock Pot Stuffing.

I've loved Cranberry Orange Sauce for as long as I can remember. It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving or Christmas with out a large bowl of zesty Orange Cranberry Sauce. When I was a wee little one my Dad tells a story of one Thanksgiving I climbedup on the table and polished off the entire dish of cranberry sauce before anyone realized what was going on.

Oops! Thank goodness I was so cute or they might have been mad at me.

Colt and I had made a large container of Cranberry Orange Sauce recipe for Thanksgiving, but it was gone before we could ever capture a picture so we made another batch of the ruby colored deliciousness to go with a Rosemary Sage Pork Loin Roast we had been keeping in the freezer for the last few weeks. It was so delicious!

Here's how to make Homemade Cranberry Orange Sauce:

Combine in a large sauce pan:

• 6 cups Washed Cranberries
• 1 whole Orange Zested, Chopped Fine
• 3/4 cup Orange Juice
• 1 cup Water
• 1 3/4 Sugar Or To Taste

Stir until well combined.

Tip: I find the darker ruby red cranberries have a tendency to be a little sweeter with better flavor when choosing bags of cranberries. I also avoid bags with wrinkled cranberries and discard any I find when I wash the berries, since the wrinkly berries have a tendency to be soft and starting to go bad. I also look for dark orange, oranges with skin that smells fragrant when purchasing andprefer organic produce when available to avoid any extra preservatives on the orange zest.

Bring cranberry sauce to a simmer. Reduce heat to low and cook until cranberries start to pop open about 10-15 minutes.

Serve cranberry sauce at room temperature or cold. Store unused cranberry sauce in the refrigerator.

Sadly all the Cranberry Orange Sauce was eaten during the making of this post and no longer exists in my fridge. We may or may not have a serious Cranberry addiction in our house. I refuse to answer on grounds I'm not ready to give up my little ruby red gems.

I've also been drooling over this Cranberry Casserole over at Best Casserole Recipes. It would make a delicious side dish or dessert.

For other Cranberry recipes make sure to check out:

• Moist Orange Cranberry Bread With Orange Glaze
• Cranberry Orange Muffins
• Cranberry Orange Coffee Cake
• Orange Cranberry Pistachio Shortbread Cookies