When Thanksgiving and Christmas come around, many people start thinking about Cranberry Sauce.
For some, the canned gelatin is the best thing next to sliced bread.
But if you are anything like me, you want something a little fresher and more flavorful on your plate.
And this Cranberry Clementine Sauce is one great option!
Easy to Make Homemade Clementine Cranberry Sauce
Simply combine fresh or frozen cranberries with sugar, cinnamon, clementine juice, and a few more flavorful ingredients.
Simmer everything together until the cranberries burst and the sauce thickens.
Once chilled, it’s ready to eat.
Serve cranberry sauce with turkey
Homemade cranberry sauce is a delightful dish to serve with turkey.
And it’s especially yummy when you add in some clementines, or tangerines or other citrus.
We like the clementines for their sweetness, but other oranges are good too!
This Cranberry Clementine Sauce is a great addition to your Thanksgiving dinner.
But it tastes so delicious, you may want to double or even triple the recipe to make sure you have enough.
Once people taste how sweet and flavorful this is, they will want to eat it by the bowl.
In fact, it makes a great holiday dessert, too.
It’s so good, you may never buy one of those jiggly cans of “cranberry sauce” again!
More great recipes to serve for Thanksgiving:
- Air Fryer Mashed Sweet Potatoes
- Apple Cinnamon Biscuits with Brown Sugar Honey Glaze
- Apple Cinnamon Roll Muffins
- Apple Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Donuts
- Apple Walnut Bundt Cake
- Caramel Apple Cookies
- Chocolate Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes
- Cranberry Pumpkin Seed Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies
- Easy Cranberry Brie Bites
- Garlic Parmesan Basil Roasted Carrots
- Goat Cheese Logs rolled in Pecans
- Homemade Maple Bacon Cupcakes
- Instant Pot Sweet Potato Casserole
- Mini Pumpkin Cheesecake Bites
- Orange Rosemary Roasted Cornish Hens
- Pecan Pie Fudge
- Pumpkin Pudding Cake
- Spicy Pecans made in the Instant Pot
Ingredients to Make Clementine Cranberry Sauce
- 16 oz cranberries, fresh or frozen
- 3 clementines, juiced, peel reserved
- ½ lemon, juiced, peel reserved
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- pinch ground cloves
Note: You may substitute other citrus fruits for clementines if clementines aren’t available.
While clementines are our first choice, we also love Cara Cara oranges in this recipe too.
YUM! Cuties (mandarin oranges) also work well in this recipe.
Is a clementine a tangerine?
Clementines are a type of seedless tangerine that is sweeter than a tangerine.
Clementines are in season from November to January in most areas.
There are a lot of similarly sized citrus fruits like clementines, tangerines, and mandarin oranges.
How to make Cranberry Sauce with Clementines
- Combine cranberries, sugar, cinnamon stick, and ground clove into medium size cooking pot.
- Juice clementines and half a lemon, and add juice to cooking pot.
- Slice peels into thin strips.
- Simmer on medium heat until cranberries burst. Continue to simmer until sauce thickens, approximately 15-20 minutes.
- *Add water if needed.
- Allow to cool. Remove cinnamon stick and store in refrigerator overnight for best results.
We like to slice the peels into strips
If you prefer smaller pieces of citrus in your cranberry sauce, you can then also cut the strips crosswise to make the pieces even smaller.
Clementine Cranberry Sauce
Equipment
- Medium Size Cooking Pot
Ingredients
- 16 oz cranberries fresh or frozen
- 3 clementines juiced, peel reserved
- ½ lemon juiced, peel reserved
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- pinch ground clove
Instructions
- Combine cranberries, sugar, cinnamon stick, and ground clove into medium size cooking pot.
- Juice clementines and half a lemon, and add juice to cooking pot.
- Slice peels into thin strips.
- Simmer on medium heat until cranberries burst. Continue to simmer until sauce thickens, approximately 15-20 minutes. *Add water if needed.
- Allow to cool. Remove cinnamon stick and store in refrigerator overnight for best results.
Notes
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Hi, I’m Jennifer. I love to cook and entertain. I have a lot of fun sharing traditional food and drink recipes as well as putting a new spin on the classics. I strive to provide easy to make recipes that are perfect for the home cook, bartender and entertainer.
This cranberry sauce was like something from a fancy restaurant. It was easy to make and really leveled up our Thanksgiving meal!