Cranberry Sauce is a Thanksgiving staple! It goes great with leftover turkey too!
I have to admit I’ve never liked the canned cranberry sauce… gag.
BUT I love homemade cranberry sauce!!
This cranberry sauce is good enough to eat by it’s self, ha!
In fact, my little kiddos could not get enough of it. That was a big deal because usually I cannot force them to eat it!
Yay me!
And this recipe is an FP for my Trim Healthy Mama friends!
It uses just a few ingredients and if you don’t have the Just Gelatin from the Trim Healthy Mama Store or the THM Gentle Sweet, here is my affiliate link to the Trim Healthy Mama store!
And how pretty is this cranberry sauce!? I love pretty food!!
Cranberry Sauce
Description
A yummy Cranberry Sauce that is sugar free!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 of a 12 oz bag of Ocean Spray Cranberries
- 2 cups of water
- 3/4 cups of THM Gentle Sweet
- 1/2 tsp of nutmeg
- Sprinkle of salt
- 1 tsp of vanilla
- 4–5 drops of a good quality Orange Essential Oil or 1 tsp of Orange Flavoring
- 1 1/2 tbsp. Just Gelatin (or any gelatin you prefer)
- 1 cup of cold water
Instructions
- Bring 2 cups of water, the cranberries, nutmeg, salt and the sweetener to boil in a sauce pan on medium heat.
- You will hear the cranberries popping.
- Once they start to boil, bring the heat down to low and simmer for 20-30 minutes until the water reduces down.
- In a bowl, mix the 1 cup of cold water and the gelatin together well.
- Pour the cranberry mixture into the gelatin & water and stir.
- Add the vanilla and orange oil or flavoring.
- Mix well, pour into a pretty container & place in the fridge for at least an hour maybe 2.
- It should sit up really nicely and become perfectly jelled!
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
Yay! I just found 2 bags of cranberries on my fridge and was wanting to try a THM version of cranberry sauce. I’ll be trying this one as soon as my Gentle Sweet comes in 🙂
Is orange flavoring different than extract? I just have Watkins orange extract.
Hmm… I am not too sure. But I think it should be fine with same amounts of either! 🙂
Thank you! I have been searching for a good THM approved cranberry sauce. And, since it uses a half bag of cranberries, I am going to make a trial recipe this weekend before making it for Thanksgiving. It looks so delicious!
Yay!!! 🙂
This looks great! Not sure what you mean by 1/2 nutmeg though. Can you clarify? Thanks!
haha, I will fix that! 🙂
I’ve been looking for a THM cranberry sauce! If I want more of a whole cranberry sauce (not gelled), I assume I can just skip the gelatin and not mold it? Or do you have a separate recipe for whole cranberry sauce?
Thanks!
Yes, I like a more whole cranberry sauce too! I make mine by just simmering a whole bag of cranberries with some water… about a cup. Add about 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup of Gentle Sweet and orange flavoring or extract with vanilla and cinnamon and nutmeg!! 🙂
Thank you for the yummy looking recipe. Do you know how leftovers hold up? And could I make this a few days ahead with no trouble?
Mine was good for several days in the icebox (fridge)! I just covered with foil!
I made this today. It tastes delicious! But it didn’t set at all. I used THM just gelatin. So now I have a strong cranberry drink with cranberry lumps of goodness? Any ideas? I did 2 cups of water in the part simmering. And I simmered for over 30 minutes. I used 1 cup of water with the 1 1/2 Tbsp of gelatin. That doesn’t seem like a lot of gelatin. Is that correct?
Oh gosh.. that should have worked. Hmmm… and you placed it in the fridge? I would say maybe add more gelatin and mix it all together again and let it sit again.
do you think I could get away with using 1/2 cup Pyure as the sweetener? 3/4 cup sure seems like a lot of (expensive) sweetener. Thanks!
Yes, you could do that!
Bravo! Another delicious dish! Just made it tonight. It satisfies a craving I have this time of year. I used to make croissant sandwiches filled with chicken/turkey, cream cheese, cranberry sauce and orange marmalade. This has a similar flavor to the cranberry sauce and orange marmalade together. So now all I need to do is find a type of bread similar to a croissant. (S) if I’m using cream cheese or it could be (E) if I don’t. Right?
Right, because the Sauce is an FP! 🙂
I made this Cranberry Sauce for one of our THM sides for Thanksgiving! LOVED it! Especially with the orange in it. Mine set up really well, in fact, it was more like cranberry Jello haha. Will be making this recipe again. Probably halfing it for us since it’s just my Mom & I who do THM in our house. We had leftover of it coming out of ears after Thanksgiving which was okay with all the Thanksgiving goodies to go with it but I now know that half a recipe is the perfect amount for us 🙂
P.S. I used my homemade Truvia and it came out perfectly
Awesome!! 🙂
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I had written “cranberry sauce” on my grocery list, and then thought to check for a THM-friendly recipe. 🙂 Yours was easy and I can’t wait to taste it!
Do you know how much this would take of Super Sweet? I don’t have the Gentle Sweet at the moment…
I would do 1/3 of what the recipe calls for.
Could I blend up the cranberries – would it make it more like the canned cranberry sauce?
I think so!!