Cranberry - the berry is very useful. It contains a huge amount of vitamins. Especially it is rich in vitamin C. From it, prepare various fruit drinks and compotes. And you can also cook a delicious sauce, which perfectly complements meat dishes. How to cook cranberry sauce, we'll tell you now.
Cranberry sauce - recipe
Ingredients:
- cranberries - 150 g;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- orange juice - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- ground cinnamon - 1 pinch;
- cloves (buds) - 3 pieces;
- ground nutmeg - 1 pinch;
- orange peel 1.
Preparation
Berries of cranberries and sugar are placed in a saucepan with a thick bottom. On medium heat cook until the berries begin to burst. Zedra of orange three on a melon grater and add to cranberry mass. There we send cinnamon, clove, nutmeg. Boil for about 5 minutes, then pour in orange juice. Also, if desired, you can add literally 2-3 drops of lemon juice. Boil another 5 minutes and turn off the fire. And once the sauce has cooled down, it's ready! It comes out pretty liquid. And if you want to get a more dense consistency, then in orange juice you need to dilute about half a teaspoon of starch, and then cook according to the prescription.
Turkey with cranberry sauce - recipe
Ingredients:- turkey fillet - 0,5 kg;
- soy sauce - 50 ml;
- honey - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt pepper;
- mustard - 1 teaspoon;
- cranberries - 150 g;
- sugar - 0.5 cup;
- orange - 1 piece;
- lemon - half;
- lingonberry - 50 g;
- dry red wine - 30 ml.
Preparation
In a small bowl, mix mustard, soy sauce, salt, honey and pepper and mix well. The fillet of the turkey is well coated with the marinade obtained. Cover it with a film and put it in the cold for an hour to marinate. After this, the fillet is fried in oil, preferably on olive. When the crust is formed, we remove the meat from the frying pan, we lay it on the baking sheet covered with foil, pour the remainder of the marinade on top and wrap it with foil. In the oven, bake the turkey for about half an hour. Then remove the foil and let the meat brown for another 10 minutes.
We prepare the sauce: in a small dry saucepan add sugar and, stirring, melt it on a small fire. The shade of the melted sugar should be close to golden. Cowberry and cranberries are washed (you can also use frozen berries), peel the orange from the peel. From half a lemon and an orange we squeeze out juice. In a saucepan with melted sugar pour berries, grated orange peel, pour in the juice of orange and lemon, as well as dry red wine. Bring it all together to a boil and boil for 15 minutes before thickening. After that, cranberry sauce to the turkey from the plate is removed, cooled and we remove the hour for 2 in the refrigerator. Now the sauce is poured into a suitable container and served with a turkey or any other bird to the table.
Beef in cranberry sauce - recipe
Ingredients:
- steaks of beef - 2 pieces;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- black pepper, salt.
For sauce:
- fresh cranberries - 100 g;
- olive oil - 20 ml;
- onions - 50 g;
- light honey - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- orange - 1 pc.
Preparation
Steaks of beef rubbed with salt and ground black pepper. In the pan, pour in the oil, heat it, add crushed garlic cloves to the flat side of the knife. Fry the meat on both sides until rouge and transfer to the baking tray. We bring them to readiness in the oven. Strongly, it does not need to be heated, 190 ° C will be enough. After 10 minutes, the maximum of steaks will be ready. We transfer them to a plate and wrap it with foil to avoid cooling.
Now prepare the sauce: put the washed and dried cranberries in a saucepan, add olive oil, honey, orange juice and grated zest. Stir, cover with a lid and simmer for about 20 minutes. Stir the mass into a bowl and grind it with a submerged blender. Then the resulting mass is wiped through a sieve to get rid of pits. Beef in cranberry sauce served to the table in hot form!
Cranberry-cowberry sauce
Ingredients:
- cranberries - 0,5 kg;
- cranberry - 0,5 kg;
- sugar - 300 g;
- ginger - 40 g.
Preparation
Berries are mixed with sugar and grind everything with a blender. The resulting mashed potatoes are poured into the saucepan and put it on a small fire. Minutes 15 warm the mass on a small fire, add grated ginger on a small grater and warm up a couple of minutes. Now the sauce is cooled and that's it, he's ready! You can use it right away, but you can put it in the refrigerator and store it in a sealed container for up to 1 month.