Vanilla Cranberry Sauce
"Now THIS is worth writing home about, so here I am! I wanted to do something different with my cranberry sauce this year. Enough of the citrus, no shallots for making compote...vanilla! I have a few dried out beans that I've been hoarding! Now that we have a supply of fresh beans, time to use the old - why not drop one in the cranberry sauce? How bad could it be? OMG.....it was divine!!! Vanilla sugar adds extra vanilla flavr but you can certainly use regular sugar."
photo by Elmotoo
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 1 lb fresh cranberries
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup vanilla sugar
- 1 vanilla bean, old, dried out ones work well here
directions
- Put all ingredients in a medium saucepan & bring to a boil.
- Simmer about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pull out the vanilla bean, slice open & scrape the seeds into the sauce. Add the bean back to the sauce & continue simmering & stirring occasionally until cranberries have popped.
- Cool & serve or refrigerate. Remove bean just before serving.
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Reviews
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We loved this! The vanilla adds such a nice mellow flavor! I used a 12 oz bag of cranberries, 2/3 cup water but all the sugar. -
I served this for Thanksgiving… finally a cranberry sauce people will eat! A week before, I measured 1 cup a sugar in a jar and threw in a vanilla bean. So when I was ready to make this dish I just threw in the contents of the jar into the cranberries. Thanks for posting! YUMM! -
A GREAT SAUCE, & a definite keeper of a recipe! I love cranberries, so this was a no-brainer & in combination with the intenst vanilla flavor, OUTSTANDING! Thanks so much! [Tagged, made & reviewed in the Aus/NZ Recipe Swap #21] -
Sorry if this is a double post. First one didn't go thru. Vanilla and cranberries are a perfect marriage. Will make this again over the holidays.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Elmotoo
Geneva, New York
