Subtly Smoked Homemade Cranberry Sauce {w/ Blood Orange}

a bowl of freshly made cranberry sauce on a blue background surrounded by fall decor like pumpkins, wheat, and fresh cranberries

Subtly Smoked Homemade Cranberry Sauce {w/ Blood Orange}

A refreshing twist on a Thanksgiving and Christmas favourite. Make smoked fresh cranberry sauce this year and ditch the canned stuff. You can also make this UNsmoked.

Sweetened with blood orange, dark cherry juice, and pure maple syrup.

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Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 10

Smoking Time: 15

Total Time: 30

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: christmas, thanksgiving

Servings:

Calories: 141kcal

Author: Jana Dziak

Ingredients

1 bag cranberries
1 cup maple syrup
½ cup unsweetened black cherry juice (optional, you can also use orange juice or apple cider etc.)
1 blood orange (juice squeezed out, skin zested, and pulp discarded)
1 teaspoon blood orange zest
1 cinnamon stick
1 pinch sea salt

Instructions

In a medium saucepan, add the fresh cranberries, juice, zest, maple syrup, cinnamon stick, and pinch of salt and bring to a boil. Immediately reduce heat to low and simmer gently for 10 minutes.
While the sauce is simmering away, set your Traeger Grill (or whatever smoker you're using) to the Smoke setting and leave with the lid open for 5 minutes while the fire starts.
Set your pan of cranberries directly onto the grill grates, close the lid, and allow to smoke for 20 minutes.
Check the cranberry sauce, if it is not to your desired level of smokiness, go for 10-15 minutes more before removing.

Notes

Allow to come to room temperature and then store, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 7 days.

Before serving, allow to come to room temperature (30 minutes)

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