Healthy No-Sugar-Added Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce
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Healthy No-Sugar-Added Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce
Description
The Healthy No-Sugar-Added Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce combines fresh cranberries, fresh orange juice and zest, organic honey, a cinnamon stick, and vanilla extract. The ingredients are cooked under high pressure in the Instant Pot for a short time, followed by natural pressure release. Afterward, the sauce is simmered briefly in sauté mode while being lightly mashed to reach the desired consistency.
The resulting sauce balances the tartness of cranberries and citrus with the natural sweetness of honey and warm spices. The texture is thickening as it cools, starting somewhat loose and becoming more gelatinous at room temperature or refrigerated. It provides a fresh, wholesome alternative to traditional cranberry sauces with added refined sugars.
Serve this cranberry sauce as a side or condiment, especially during holiday meals. Its flavor profile pairs well with poultry, pork, and as a spread or topping. Leftovers keep well refrigerated or frozen.
The recipe notes suggest that cooking time includes pressure build but actual cooking under pressure is brief. The sauce can be made ahead and reheated, with options to adjust sweetness by varying honey amount. It also may be adapted to crock pot cooking for convenience.
Ingredients
- 12 ounce cranberries fresh
- ½ cup orange juice freshly squeezed
- 1 ½ tablespoon orange zest
- ½ cup honey organic raw
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Rinse cranberries and remove any squishy ones.
- Pour orange juice into instant pot.
- Add in the rinsed cranberries.
- Orange zest goes in next.
- Pour organic honey.
- Place a cinnamon stick inside the pot.
- Pour vanilla extract.
- Cover lid. Select HIGH PRESSURE button and adjust timer to 2 minutes. Please not Instant Pot will take about 13 to 14 minutes time to build pressure inside, after that the actual cooking timer starts. Please consider time needed to build pressure when planning to make this recipe.
- Once cooking time is completed, allow the pot to natural pressure release for 10 minutes.
- Release any leftover pressure in the pot manually.
- Open lid.
- Remove cinnamon stick.
- Select SAUTE mode and cook the sauce while mashing it lightly with a wooden spatula for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Turn off pot.
- As the sauce cools, it will thicken.
- Serve cranberry sauce immediately with any main course dish or even starters.
- You can also store it in glass container with lid in fridge for about 4 to 5 days, and in freezer for longer storage.
Notes
- Cook until sauce starts to thicken and expect further thickening as it cools.
- The dish heats well when reheated; serve warm for best flavor and texture.
- Can be made ahead and stored in fridge up to two weeks or frozen up to three months.
- Honey amount can be adjusted to preference for sweetness level.
- Crock pot method allows cooking on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours if preferred.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 1cup
Amount Per Serving
Calories 767 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 767kcal | 38% |
| Carbohydrates | 200g | 67% |
| Protein | 2g | 4% |
| Fat | 0g | 0% |
| Saturated Fat | 0g | 0% |
| Cholesterol | 0mg | 0% |
| Sodium | 16mg | 1% |
| Potassium | 625mg | 13% |
| Fiber | 18g | 72% |
| Sugar | 164g | 328% |
| Vitamin A | 450IU | 9% |
| Vitamin C | 120.4mg | 134% |
| Calcium | 101mg | 10% |
| Iron | 2.1mg | 12% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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