Cranberry Mandarin Sauce

Name: Cranberry Mandarin Sauce
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Ingredients 4 small mandarin oranges 3 cups cranberries 1/2 cup maple syrup 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

By:

Co+op

Recipe Information

Total Time:

15 minutes

Servings:

This bright red sauce, studded with jewels of orange, looks beautiful in a bowl or on a plate.

This bright red sauce, studded with jewels of orange, looks beautiful in a bowl or on a plate. It’s also deceptively simple and requires only rudimentary orange-peeling skills. Buy the smallest mandarins you can find, for petite, bite-sized bursts of orange. A little maple syrup is all you need to sweeten the sauce.

Ingredients

4 small mandarin oranges
3 cups cranberries
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

Peel, separate and remove the pith from the mandarin segments, and place in a two-quart pot.
Add the cranberries, syrup and vanilla and stir. Place over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and stir frequently for about eight minutes.
When the cranberries have popped and the sauce has thickened slightly, remove from heat and let cool.
Transfer to a storage container and refrigerate. Keeps, tightly covered, for a week.