Sweet and sour cranberry sauce is a perfect addition to the baked duck, goose, other meat and, possibly, some fish dishes. It also works well with rice and some vegetable dishes (which is important for vegetarians), in addition, it can be used as a component of complex confectionery products.
Cranberry sauce is especially good with fatty meat. In North America, it is prepared and served on Thanksgiving Day for a turkey.
Consider how best to prepare a cranberry sauce.
The fact is that cranberries, like other possible components of this sauce (in any exemplary recipe), contain a large amount of vitamin C, which when heated above 80 degrees C is rapidly destroyed. Thus, the taste and smell remain, and the benefit decreases significantly.
Alas, on the Internet you can find many recipes of cranberry sauces, which are offered to cook with the necessary heat treatment. Cranberries are cooked in sugar syrup, and sometimes even with honey instead of sugar for 10-15 minutes (honey when heated above 80 degrees C also decomposes and forms completely harmful compounds).
So how do you cook a delicious and vitamin sauce from cranberries for meat ? The answer arises: do not boil it.
Cranberry sauce recipe
Ingredients:
- cranberries are fresh (or frozen) - about 400 g;
- fresh juice from 1 orange;
- juice fresh from 1-2 lemons;
- sugar or liquid unprimed not too odorous honey - about 200 ml (if you can use maple syrup - also not bad).
Preparation
The berries of ripe cranberries are washed, laid out on a sieve and abundantly covered with steep boiling water (that is, blanching). We transfer them to the bowl of the blender and bring it to the state of mashed potatoes (or let it pass through the meat grinder).
If we use sugar, dissolve it in a hot orange juice on a water bath, and then cool it. When using honey, heating is not required.
Mix orange syrup with cranberry puree. That's all. We have kept the maximum useful.
You can add ground nuts, garlic and red hot pepper, ginger , fennel to this base sauce and what else will be in accordance with your sense of culinary harmony. Such a cranberry sauce, prepared for the winter, can be stored for a long time in tightly closed glass jars in the refrigerator.