Slow Cooker Cranberry Sauce Recipe

This homemade slow cooker cranberry sauce recipe balances sweetness with tartness making it the perfect complement to your holiday dinner.

I love making homemade cranberry sauce in the crock pot for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. This is a simple side dish that can be made a couple of days ahead of time to make meal preparation easier. 

This recipe is lower in sugar than other cranberry sauce recipes I have checked out. It balances sweetness with tartness and (most importantly) it gets great reviews from other family members and especially my kids!

I wait for the 12oz bags of fresh cranberries to go on sale for $.99 each at my local Aldi store before Thanksgiving. I get extra bags to freeze to use later. Plus this cranberry sauce recipe freezes well too.

Slow Cooker Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 12-oz packages fresh or frozen cranberries
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 cup sugar (or sweetener of choice)
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger

Instructions:

1. Rinse and drain cranberries (thaw if necessary) and pour into slow cooker.
2. In a separate container mix orange juice, maple syrup, sugar and ginger until blended.
3. Pour orange juice mixture over the top of the cranberries in slow cooker.
4. Cook on low for 3 hours. After  3 hours you will notice most of the cranberries have split open.
5. Mash cranberries with a potato masher.
6. Let cool and store in refrigerator until ready to serve or spoon into containers to freeze.

Makes about 4 cups of cranberry sauce. This is a great side dish to prepare ahead of time to make holiday preparation go more smoothly.

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Slow Cooker Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Dawn

This homemade cranberry sauce recipe balances sweetness with tartness making it the perfect complement to your holiday dinner.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 3 hours hrs

Total Time 3 hours hrs 10 minutes mins

Ingredients

  

• 2 12- oz packages fresh or frozen cranberries
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 cup sugar or sweetener of choice
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger

Instructions

 

• Rinse and drain cranberries (thaw if necessary) and pour into slow cooker.
• In a separate container mix orange juice, maple syrup, sugar and ginger until blended.
• Pour orange juice mixture over the top of the cranberries in slow cooker.
• Cook on low for 3 hours. After 3 hours you will notice most of the cranberries have split open.
• Mash cranberries with a potato masher.
• Let cool and store in refrigerator until ready to serve or spoon into containers to freeze.