This Crockpot Apple Cranberry Sauce is spiked with orange and crystallized ginger. Fantastic with roast turkey!
The barrage of holiday recipes has started. For my Canadian and other non-American readers, I urge you to think of these recipes not just for American Thanksgiving, but for the whole holiday season. In fact, our family tradition is to eat turkey at Christmas dinner, complete with mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, sweet potatoes and a double dose of gravy. For my family, it's not a proper turkey dinner without our favorite
Maple & Brown Sugar Cranberry Sauce and my mother-in-law's Crockpot Applesauce. Our favorite cranberry sauce will be making appearance again this year. In fact, I think my kids would have "words" with me if I didn't make it. However, since variety is the spice of life (so they say), I thought it would be fun to have another version on hand for day-after sandwiches.
Between the family applesauce recipe and the pear applesauce I made this year, the crockpot (slow cooker) has always worked well for us. Not only does it fill the kitchen with the smell of the holidays, but it can be tucked away in the corner of the kitchen, freeing up stovetop space, which is at a premium when cooking a holiday meal. This version is filled with cranberries, fresh orange juice, orange zest and chopped crystallized ginger. As the apples cook down and the cranberries pop, the color takes on a ruby red hue. Before removing the sauce from the crockpot, be sure to taste it. If you find it to be too tart, just add an extra tablespoon or two of brown sugar to sweeten things up.
The apple cranberry sauce recipe:
Place all of the apple pieces and cranberries in a large bowl and stir in brown sugar and orange zest.
Pour orange juice into the bottom of a large crockpot (slow cooker) and add the apple mixture.
Cover, turn the crockpot setting to Low, and cook for about 8 hours, stirring occasionally and breaking up the apple slices and popping cranberries with a wooden spoon as they soften.
Stir in crystallized ginger. Taste and add an additional tablespoon or two of brown sugar if you find the sauce too tart for your liking.
Serve warm or room temperature.
Other cranberry sauce recipes:
Cookin' Canuck's Maple & Brown Sugar Cranberry Sauce
Two Peas and Their Pod's Fresh Cranberry Orange Sauce
Ciao Florentina's Blood Orange Cranberry Sauce
Printable Recipe
Apple & Cranberry Sauce with Orange & Crystallized Ginger Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 medium Gala apples peeled, cored, quartered & sliced
- 1 12 ounce package fresh cranberries
- 5 tablespoons brown sugar or more to taste
- 1 teaspoons grated orange zest
- ¼ cup fresh orange juice
- ¼ cup chopped crystallized ginger
Instructions
- Place all of the apple pieces and cranberries in a large bowl and stir in brown sugar and orange zest.
- Pour orange juice into the bottom of a large crockpot (slow cooker) and add the apple mixture.
- Cover, turn the crockpot setting to Low, and cook for about 8 hours, stirring occasionally and breaking up the apple slices and cranberries with a wooden spoon as they soften.
- Stir in crystallized ginger. Taste and add an additional tablespoon or two of brown sugar if you find the sauce to be too tart.
- Serve warm or room temperature.
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judee @ Gluten Free A-Z
I've been looking for a good cranberry sauce recipe and this is it. I love everything about it: the low sugar , the apples, the orange juice, the ginger, and the crock pot. Thanks for sharing it.
Jeanette
I've been loving my slow cooker lately - can't wait to try this for Thanksgiving!
heather
I'm all about the slow cooker this year. This looks SO delicious!
Lydia (The Perfect Pantry)
Perfect! I'm firing up all of my slow cookers for Thanksgiving -- just need to find a place to plug them in!
Delishhh
Awesome - i do make Turkey for Thanksgiving but i also make ribs and the ribs go first 🙂 For cranberry i made this cranberry and orange molds that are our of this world - i make extras just so i can eat them for dessert too 🙂 http://delishhh.com/2010/11/22/cranberry-orange-molds-indian-trail-cranberry-orange-mold/
Joanne
Love that recipe! I made something similar last year and it was so good and actually would work just as well as a dessert with ice cream on top. 🙂 Variety!
Rachel @ Baked by Rachel
Slow cooker dishes always win! Love that you added apples. I'm use to cranberry sauce being just that - not with apples. This is one of my favorite combinations 🙂
Carolinaheartstrings
That looks delicious. Perfect for our Thanksgiving at the beach. Come visit. We have a terrific cranberry couscous.
Pretend Chef
Perfect for Thanksgiving and sounds so easy to prepare. I would love to give this a try.
Annalise
I love that this is a crockpot recipe. So easy! And as you said, frees up my counter for all the pies I've got to make. Love it!