What’s a girl to do when her mother asks her to make orange cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and she only has clementines.  Well the obvious answer is to substitute.  And suddenly, we have something even more delicious in the form of a Cranberry Clementine Sauce that still has the lovely citrusy appeal of a cranberry sauce made with oranges, but the added delight of something a little sweeter.

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Homemade Cranberry Sauce

Umm, of course.  Cranberry sauce is another one of those food that once I made it homemade, I though, why is the world would you buy it canned.  It ranks with Homemade Mac and Cheese (in 20 minutes or less) and Homemade Tacos and homemade salad dressing of any sort.  Because just like those other foods, it is easy to make cranberry sauce from scratch and as long as your have a food processor, Cranberry Clementine Sauce maybe among the easiest.

So, it goes like this.  Wash two clementines.  Remove the stems and quarter them with the peel on.  Throw the quarters in the food processor (probably 4 at a time) and use the pulse button to pulverize them.  Measure to see how much you have.  You need about a cup.  So if you are close, perhaps add a little water.  If you are not close, you might need another half or even whole clementine.  And that was the hard part of this recipe.

Put the rest of the ingredients:  the cranberries and the sugar along with the pulverized clementines in a small sauce pan.  Over a medium heat bring to a boil, stirring frequently to insure that the sugar is dissolving.  Reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes.  

That’s it.  You’re done.  You can serve up a beautiful red, citrusy sweet tart homemade cranberry sauce and everyone will marvel at homemade cranberry sauce and you never, ever have to confess just how easy it was to make.

Thanksgiving and other Holiday Meals

So if you are the host of Thanksgiving (or other autumnal holiday gathering), be sure to check out my post about how to take the stress out of your Thanksgiving preparations.  And check out a few other delightful holiday recipes here.

Oh, and if you are on the look out for a way to use up that leftover turkey, be sure to tune in next week for Turkey Shepherd’s Pie (you can make it Whole30!)