Valencia Orange Cranberry Sauce

This is a cranberry sauce recipe with orange (Valencia orange – to be exact!) that you’re going to want to whip up for the holidays. It’s simple, festive, beautiful, and downright tasty. Reduce down a bag of cranberries with orange juice, sugar, cinnamon and a lil’ nutmeg, and you’ll have you’re a tart, tangy, sweet, perfectly ruby red cranberry sauce that you’ll be accenting your plate with every chance you get.

Cranberry Sauce Recipe with Orange: What You’ll Need

This cranberry sauce recipe with orange is super simple: only 5 ingredients, many of which people have about in their pantries. That’s one of the reasons I like it so much: it’s unpretentious and un-fussy, and something you can whip up without little effort. And as far as holiday cooking is concerned, you need all the low maintenance dishes to round out and ground the fancier, floofier festive centerpieces. So here’s what you’ll need for your very uninvolved cranberry sauce recipe with orange.

• 1 (12-ounce) package fresh cranberries
• Zest of one Valencia orange
• Juice of 1 ½ Valencia oranges, about ½ cup
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Dash of ground nutmeg

How To Make Cranberry Sauce Recipe With Orange

Like the ingredients, the process of making this cranberry sauce recipe with orange is rather simple, to the point, and no nonsense. Here’s what you’ll have to do.

1. Add the cranberries, orange zest and juice to a small sauce pan, and begin to heat slightly lower than medium heat. When you hear the cranberries beginning to pop and boil after having reduced a bit, stir well and then add all the sugar, ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg. Stir to incorporate these ingredients.
2. When the mixture has returned to bubbling gently, stir once more, turn the heat to low and then partially cover the small sauce pan with the lid. Now just stir occasionally until almost all the cranberries are popped and it has a cohesive texture (about 15 minutes). Then, remove the cranberry sauce from the heat and cover completely for at least an hour, or until mostly cool. Store in the refrigerator until ready to use, or eat right away.

More Holiday Recipe Ideas!

Just this cranberry sauce recipe with orange’ll make your spirits merry and your holiday bright, but there are also other festive recipes that you can whip up in tandem to make your primp up the appetite of any who hear of your culinary tidings. Here are some ideas for you!

• Carrot Bacon Wrapped Dates with Tofu Ricotta
• Cinnamon Rice Pudding with Salted Date Caramel
• Easy Vegan Crêpes
• Golden Beet & Endive Salad
• Lentil & Jackfruit Tamales
• Moroccan Couscous Tabouli
• Snowball Cookies
• Spinach & White Bean Enchiladas
• Roasted Cherry Tomato & Hummus Pasta

or check out my friend Amy Wonzy’s post about her Favorite Vegan Holiday Recipes for even more great ideas.

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That Vegan Nephew