The right sauce will enrich the tastemeat dish. Of course, you can buy ketchup or mayonnaise at the store, but if you want to surprise your guests with the original taste of meat or poultry, make cranberry sauce. This sweet and sour dressing is very popular in America and Great Britain: on Thanksgiving, cranberry sauce is always served with turkey. It can also be served with other fried poultry. The sauce also goes well with fatty meats such as lamb and pork. Vegetarians like to add it to pasta, vegetables, and baked goods. Cranberry sauce can give a dish a unique, bright, and festive taste. Making cranberry sauce is not at all difficult; its preparation time does not take more than 15 minutes. By increasing the cooking time, you can achieve its thickness. Cook the berries only in enamelware so that the metal does not produce harmful substances under the influence of acid. It is better to use fresh cranberries, but if you can’t get them, frozen ones will do. Take only ripe dark red berries, as unripe cranberries are bitter. To give the cranberry sauce for meat the flavor you need, add lemon juice, ginger, pepper, cloves or other spices. The finished dressing can be stored, but not more than 2 weeks. To do this, pour it into a glass jar and place it in the refrigerator.
The most delicious recipes of cranberry sauce
- Cranberry sauce in American style
This dressing is perfect with turkey oranother bird. Put 150 g of cranberries and 2 tbsp of sugar in a saucepan with a thick bottom. Cook over medium heat until the berries burst. Wash the lemon and orange with a brush, dry them, and grate the zest. Squeeze the juice from half an orange, add a few drops of lemon juice to it. Add the zest, a pinch of young cinnamon, 3 cloves, a little ground nutmeg to the cranberries and cook for 5 minutes. Pour in the citrus juice and cook for another 5 minutes. Once the sauce has cooled, it is ready. If you want the dressing to be thick, add a little starch to the cold citrus juice, and then pour it into the cranberries. There is another positive side to adding starch: the sauce will only need to be cooked for a short time, just until it boils, which means the berries will retain more vitamins.
- Cranberry sauce is universal
So that any meat, be it lamb, pork orbeef, has turned into a festive dish, serve it with this sauce. Bring 0.5 kg of cranberries and 2 finely chopped onions to a boil in a small amount of water. Then simmer the berries with the onion in a well-closed saucepan for 10 minutes. Grind the mass in a blender, add 150 g of apple cider vinegar, a pinch of cinnamon, a little salt, black pepper, 300 g of sugar, half a teaspoon of celery seeds and garlic powder. Simmer until smooth. Cool and serve with any meat.
- English cranberry sauce
This cranberry dressing is a great additionpoultry dishes. It can also be served with various desserts. Place 150 g of cranberries in a saucepan, add water and bring to a boil. Peel and finely grate the ginger, add to the cranberries. When the amount of liquid in the saucepan has doubled, add the lemon zest and juice, cinnamon and boil for another 5 minutes. Add honey at the end of cooking. Try the sauce: it should have a rich aroma and taste with a hint of light bitterness. If necessary, add more honey or lemon juice. Let the sauce cook for another 3 minutes.
Sample dish with sweet and sour sauce: tender meatballs
Cheese and cranberries create an original and unforgettable tastetaste. To prepare tender cheese and meat meatballs with cranberry sauce, you will need the following products: 250 g of any minced meat, 250 g of cheese, preferably soft cream cheese, 2 eggs, a glass of cranberries, 0.5 glass of grape juice, sugar, vegetable oil, sesame seeds, garlic, herbs, breadcrumbs. If possible, grate the cheese. If it is very soft, mash it with a fork. Mix the minced meat and cheese with eggs. Add sesame seeds, herbs and garlic to your taste. If you do not want the meatballs to be spicy, you can do without garlic. Make small balls from the cheese and meat mixture and roll them in breadcrumbs. Heat the oil in a deep saucepan. Lower the balls into the pan; they should fry in a large amount of oil. To avoid getting burned, put the balls in and take them out with a slotted spoon. While the meatballs are frying, prepare the cranberry dressing. Mix the cranberries, grape juice and sugar, cook the mixture until thickened, do not forget to stir often. For this dressing, you can use cranberries mashed with sugar. Pass the resulting mass through a blender. When the cheese and meat meatballs cool, lay them out on a flat plate in 1 layer and pour the resulting sweet and sour sauce. The dish is ready!