How to cook cranberry sauce

In addition to compotes, jams and pie fillings from the cranberries can be cooked sour sauce, perfect for fish, meat dishes and poultry dishes. Some types of cranberry sauceand blend well with the ice cream.

You will need

• • For the first recipe:
  • cranberries – 200 g;
  • sugar – 2 tablespoons;
  • water – 100 ml.
  • For the second recipe:
  • the cranberries – 500 grams;
  • water – 1 liter;
  • sugar – 250 grams;
  • starch – 10 grams;
  • dry white wine – 100 grams;
  • ground cinnamon.
  • For the third recipe:
  • cranberries – 1 Cup;
  • balsamic vinegar – 2 tablespoons;
  • sugar – 1 tablespoon;
  • garlic – 1 clove;
  • dried thyme – quarter teaspoon;
  • salt;
  • pepper.

Instruction

1. For cooking the simplest version of cranberry sauceand rinse the berries. If you are using frozen cranberries, defrost it. Cover berries with boiling water and simmer for fifteen minutes over medium heat.
2. Mash berries or wipe through a sieve, add the sugar and cook for five minutes on low heat, stirring constantly. This sauce is suitable for meat dishes and sweet desserts.
3. In order to prepare cranberry sauce with cinnamon, wash the berries and then decide which leaves. Prepared cranberries cover with water and bring to a boil. Drain berries in a colander. The water in which you cooked the cranberries, pour into a bowl and refrigerate.
4. Depending on what the consistency of the sauceas you'll need, chop cranberries in blender or crush with a spoon. Perhaps the dish that you are going to make cranberry sauce, it will look more impressive with a sauceof ω, in which you can see the berries.
5. Divide the water in which you cooked the cranberries, into two parts. In one part water, add the starch and stir it. In the chopped cranberries add the remaining water, sugar, wine and a smidgen of cinnamon. Put the mixture on the fire, bring to boil and boil for five minutes. Add in the sauce diluted the starch, again bring the liquid to a boil and immediately remove from heat.
6. For making spicy cranberry sauceto the meat and pour the vinegar in a bowl and let it stand for ten minutes. Add the vinegar washed berries, cranberries, crushed garlic, seasoning and salt to taste. The sugar in this sauce can be put, but you can not put – it depends on your preferences. Put the berries on a slow fire and stir, bring to a boil.
7. After five minutes, remove sauce from heat, cool and blend in a blender. Put the mixture in a bottle with a wide mouth and put in the refrigerator. This sauce is better to prepare in advance as it will be much tastier if you cook for several days.