Ingredients for Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Series Summary

Cranberry sauce is a time-honored side dish enjoyed during the holidays all across America, especially with turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day. This fruity sauce is very easy to make, especially if you have one of our expert chefs show you how to prepare it. With this easy-to-follow recipe, you can learn how to make cranberry sauce in the comfort of your own home.

In this free dessert recipe series, learn how to make cranberry sauce for from our professional pastry chef Jennifer Cail. She will teach you everything you need to know for making cranberry sauce, including how to choose the perfect cranberries. She will show you all of the supplies you need, then demonstrate how to prepare and cook the cranberries, as well as how to serve your delicious sauce. Jennifer even tells you how to make cranberry jelly!

Video Transcript

"Hello! I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, today I am going to show you how to make Cranberry Sauce. First for the Cranberry Sauce, let's talk about the ingredients. The most important part of our Cranberry Sauce is of course, the cranberries. What you will need is one 12 ounce bag of cranberries which is the standard size that they come. The next most important part of cranberries because they are tart, is sugar. You will need 1 cup of sugar for the entire 12 ounce bag. Next is water. You will need 1 cup of water in order to make the Cranberry Sauce. After that, it is up to you if you would like to add any more things. There are various ingredients that you can add to the Cranberry Sauce to make it more interesting. Personally, I like adding a little bit of spice. So I am going to add some cinnamon, about 1 teaspoon and also some candied crystallized ginger. This just adds something a little special and the pieces of it come out quite nicely in the Cranberry Sauce. "