Dish It At Home: Ginger Elizabeth's Cranberry Sauce

Local Chefs Make Their Favorite Side Dish - Ginger of Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates shares her cranberry sauce recipe with us!

1  12oz Bag           Fresh Cranberries
1/2c                     Water
1/2c                     Orange Juice
1c                        Sugar
1each                   Vanilla Bean, scraped
1each                   Cinnamon Stick
The zest of 1 orange

Method:

Put all of the ingredients together in a small-medium heavy bottom pot.  Cook on medium high heat.  When the mixture comes to a rolling boil reduce the heat to medium heat.  Boil for about 10 minutes stirring constantly.  Pull out the cinnamon stick 5 minutes into cooking and discard.  As the cranberries cook, the will burst and turn into a puree.  The cranberry sauce will look like a thick sauce, keeping in mind it will thicken slightly when it is cool.  If the sauce is too chunky for your liking, take a hand blender to it or whisk it for a few minutes while it is boiling. When the cranberry sauce is done, remove from the heat and transfer to a container.  Cool at room temperature for an hour and then refrigerate.  Enjoy.
Ginger Elizabeth Hahn

Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates
1801 L Street Suite 60
Sacramento, CA  95811
(916) 706-1738
http://gingerelizabeth.com/