Fresh Cranberry Sauce

Name: Fresh Cranberry Sauce
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 2 peeled navel oranges; 2 cups fresh cranberries; 1/2 cup pitted dates or 12 unsulfured dried apricot halves; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional

By: www.drfuhrman.com

by 8 members

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Category: Dressings, Dips and Sauces

Want to make cranberry sauce without all the added sugar? This easy five-ingredient recipe shows you how.

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Serves 8

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2 peeled navel oranges

2 cups fresh cranberries

1/2 cup pitted dates or 12 unsulfured dried apricot halves

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional

Instructions:

Puree oranges in a food processor or high-powered blender. Put cranberries and pureed oranges in a large pot and simmer gently until all the cranberries pop. Remove from heat.

Puree dates or apricots in a food processor or high-powered blender.
Stir into cooked cranberry mixture. Season with cinnamon.

If desired, stir in chopped walnuts.

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Serves 8

Per Serving:

Calories 104
Protein 2 g
Carbohydrates 16 g
Sugars 10 g
Total Fat 4.9 g
Saturated Fat 0.5 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 1 mg
Fiber 3.3 g
Beta-Carotene 42 ug
Vitamin C 24 mg
Calcium 30 mg
Iron 0.4 mg
Folate 21 ug
Magnesium 21 mg
Potassium 175 mg
Zinc 0.3 mg
Selenium 0.7 ug

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GLipstein

11/24/2025 12:06 PM

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Can you puree the dates with the oranges and all together to cook with the cranberry?

Mebattaglia

11/18/2018 09:33 AM

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This is my Mom's recipe from her mom (1930) with very small amount of sugar, not dates, put though a course food grinder. They were so frugal I believe it was 1 tbsp sugar, and used part fresh orange rind. added nuts if had them. It is outrageously good, forget the cooked ones.

jzsusie

11/18/2018 08:37 AM

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Re Dates. You can blend them “dry” or soaked in hot water first.

cscrouch replies:

11/18/2018 11:24 AM

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Thank you!

pjsonsalla

11/18/2018 08:19 AM

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Try soaking your dates and blend using the soaking liquid.

cscrouch replies:

11/18/2018 11:24 AM

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I will try this Thank you!

cscrouch

11/17/2018 02:46 PM

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I am also interested in using this recipe but am confused as to how to blend the dates also?! Will they blend dry?

CarolRamacci replies:

03/13/2021 01:51 PM

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I believe I once put some of the orange mixture in the blender with the dates. It turned out okay, because those dates need that moisture to liquify or to chop very fine.

chris213

11/16/2018 11:21 PM

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Do you put the dates into the blender dry while the oranges and cranberries are cooking? How do you blend them that way?

Thanks so much - I plan to make this for Thanksgiving!

Kissimee

03/23/2017 10:14 AM

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I have a question about this recipe. I have used the dried dates and it is AMAZING; however, I would like to try it with aprictos. Are the apricots dried or fresh?

Shaniece replies:

11/16/2018 08:42 PM

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Dried

Pitakid

11/13/2016 05:02 PM

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I use this recipe EVERY year.... SAD eaters even like it!

Naldi

11/27/2015 09:44 AM

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Great cranberry sauce. Everyone liked it, they didn't miss the sugar. Great tasting. Will do this one again.

KMVR

11/27/2014 11:24 AM

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Wonderful to enjoy a healthy cranberry sauce withOUT sugar! I followed the recipe, blending the walnuts in along with the dates so they're dispersed throughout the sauce. Tastes fantastic. This will become an often-used recipe in my family.

Mieke Benton2

11/27/2014 12:43 AM

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Great recipe! I didn't use the walnuts but added a few pecans on the side. Added a little nutmeg and cooked a bay leave with it.

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