Ingredients Needed for Basic Cranberry Sauce

Series Summary

It seems like no Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner in the United States is complete without cranberry sauce. Cranberry sauce tastes better than it looks (most of the time at least) and tastes much better than you might think. It's an incredible balance of sweet and sour tastes to tantalize your taste buds. It's easy to make, especially if you have an expert show you how. If you would like to learn how to make cranberry sauce, you can learn for free and online from one of our experts.

In this free video recipe, learn how to make cranberry sauce from expert Stephanie Barnett. Stephanie will tell you what ingredients you need to make cranberry sauce and how to choose cranberries for cranberry sauce. She will demonstrate how to zest and juice an orange for cranberry sauce, how to prepare pomegranate for cranberry sauce, how to cut an apple for cranberry sauce, how to prepare a kumquat for cranberry sauce, how to sautee apples for cranberry sauce, how to add orange juice to cranberry sauce, how to add honey and apples to cranberry sauce, how to cook cranberry sauce, how to cool and store cranberry sauce, and how to serve cranberry sauce.

Video Transcript

"I'm Stephanie Barnett on behalf of Expert Village, and today we're going to make Christmas cranberry sauce. That smells good. Our Christmas cranberry sauce has these ingredients. These are the ingredients that you'll need for your Christmas cranberry sauce. You'll need some kumquats. Kumquats are very small oranges and they're completely edible except for the seeds that are inside. You eat the skin as well as the flesh. You'll need navel orange, a Valencia orange, or you can use tangerines as well. I prefer an orange because we're going to zest the skin. You also will need an apple. I prefer a green apple, but any apple will suffice. You also will need a pomegranate. Look for one that's red and firm and has no soft spots or brown spots on it. You'll need some honey. Any kind of honey will do. You also need some cranberries, 2 bags of cranberries are for this recipe. If you get them in the small containers, you will need 4 of those containers of cranberries. You will also need some butter, just a small amount to sauté the apple. You'll need a kitchen knife, a sauce pan, and a colander."