This is low sugar homemade cranberry sauce recipe, using fresh cranberries and naturally sweetened with orange juice and apples.

Ingredients

• Raisins 1/4 cup
• Fresh Cranberries 4 cups
• Water 1/2 cup
• Orange juice 100% 1 cup
• Apple 2 each
• Cinnamon 2 1/2 teaspoons

Directions

Measure water and orange juice and put in saucepan
Wash, peel and chop apples (into small chunks)
Wash the cranberries and add cranberries to saucepan.

Cook with lid over medium low heat, stirring every minute for about 10 minutes- watch closely for cranberries to pop, when this happens add in the apples and the Golden raisins. Then reduce heat to low and cook for 10 minutes.

Remove from the heat - squash with fork and stir, let cool, place in covered bowl, store in fridge for 6 hours or overnight and enjoy!

Optional recipe tips- in addition to the above recipe you can try adding one of these ingredients:

Add a dash of Clove spice
Add 1/4 cup minced crystallized ginger
Add 1/8 cup ground walnuts
For sweeter sauce add 1/4 cup sugar to saucepan mixture
For some extra zing add a bit of grated orange rind

For a fun and easy dessert serve slightly warm cranberry sauce over Vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt, top with a dash of ground walnuts!