This is a new recipe to go with my new lifestyle. No sugar has been added. Some interesting substitutions have been made. I added the walnuts for extra nutrients and crunch.
Chunky Orange Cranberry Sauce
3 cups fresh cranberries rinsed
1 cinnamon stick
2 teaspoons of Penzey’s Lemon Peel California Minced or the zest of 1 lemon
1 cup walnuts broken into bite sized pieces (Next year 1/2 cup)
1 cup of orange juice- no sugar added ( get someone else to finish the small bottle or juice the fresh oranges for you) (Next year apple juice)
Place cinnamon stick, lemon peel, and apple juice into a 3 quart pan. Cover and bring to a boil. Add the cranberries and walnuts. Return to a boil. Reduce the heat to a slow simmer. Simmer for 10 minutes while stirring occasionally.
Cool to room temperature. Remove the cinnamon stick. Place into a bowl. Cover and refrigerate until serving time.
Makes about 3 1/4 cups. The estimated calories for the entire batch is 1,028. I saved 662 calories by not adding sugar. If you want a truly low calorie version leave out the walnuts which have 766 calories, which would leave you at 242 calories for the entire recipe. All these calorie counts are from information found on Google. This has not been lab tested for calories.
The picture below is what it will look like when cooking. It does not look or taste like a traditional cranberry sauce. It looks more orange than red, because of the orange juice.
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* The orange juice made it too tart and I will use apple juice next year and less walnuts. The tartness got stronger as the cranberry sauce sat in the fridge.
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