Raspberry Balsamic Cranberry Sauce

Name: RASPBERRY BALSAMIC CRANBERRY SAUCE
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 12 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 cup water; 3/4 cup granulated sugar; 3 cups fresh cranberries; 1 1/2 cups fresh raspberries; 3 tsp raspberry balsamic vinegar {good quality}

September 24, 2014 34 Comments

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This raspberry balsamic cranberry sauce is an easy and delicious twist for your Thanksgiving feast.

I know, raspberry balsamic cranberry sauce…in September?

Here’s the deal: Canadian Thanksgiving is October 13, which is about three weeks away.

In that time, I am going back to work, throwing Kai’s first birthday party, and hosting Thanksgiving. So, I thought I would get the Thanksgiving recipes rolling a little sooner than normal!

And if you’re American, I am reeeally early. Bookmark this one for November, it’s a keeper!

I take my cranberry sauce verrrry seriously. It has pretty well always been my job {even before I got all ‘into’ food}, to make the cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, whenever we were having a turkey. I totally got off easy when I consider the amount of work it takes to cook the turkey 😉 {By the way: the BEST EVER turkey recipe, hands down, is this one}

And about the turkey: I won’t even bother unless there is cranberry sauce involved. A big scoop of that sweet, tart, gooey sauce. I like my cranberry sauce with a little bit of turkey, please!

I can’t even wrap my brain around the fact that they sell cranberry sauce in a can…people must buy it, because every year, it’s back. It takes about 10 minutes to make cranberry sauce. I know, there’s the turkey, stuffing, sides, dessert, etc etc etc. But it’s the cranberry sauce!! {Tell me I’m not alone in my cranberry sauce passion, here!}

OK, stepping down from my crazy lady cranberry sauce rant.

I wanted to make my own cranberry sauce recipe, something a little different. But not too different, I didn’t want to mess with a good thing. I almost went chipotle on it, but I have done a lot of chipotle recipes this summer.

Instead I went raspberry on it. Then a little balsamic on it. Both good decisions. This raspberry balsamic cranberry sauce is definitely not the same as the original, but still has the tart, sweet flavors that I love so much. There is a fresh raspberry twang to it, and a teeny little balsamic zing at the end. Twang and zing…am I making up words here?

~~One~~ Three more things: 1} it still only takes about 10 minutes to make, and 2} it is much prettier than those can-shapped wobbly things, and 3} your taste buds will think they’ve died and gone to heaven. And I’m done.

More Thanksgiving recipes for us!

get a TON of ideas from this round-up of 27 Holiday Slow Cooker Recipes
these Herb & Garlic Potato Stacks will are secretly super easy
this Bourbon Pumpkin Pie with Salted Brown Butter Pecan Streusel takes pumpkin pie to the next level

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