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    Home » Thanksgiving » Thanksgiving Sides » Ginger Ale Cranberry Sauce

    Ginger Ale Cranberry Sauce

    Published: Jan 13, 2011 · Modified: Feb 15, 2020 by Eric Samuelson

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    Up your cranberry sauce came by tossing out the water, and replacing it with some way more tasty.

    Ginger Ale Cranberry Sauce

    A couple weeks ago I was looking at the keywords that brought people to my website, an activity we bloggers often engage in on a regularly basis.

    One search was for ginger ale cranberry sauce.

    I thought "hmmm...I don't have a recipe for such a thing".

    On my blog I have talked about cranberry sauce and I have talked about ginger ale. But not at the same time. Sounds like an absolutely brilliant idea to me. Wish I had thought of it earlier.

    I typically have made cranberry sauce with just water, really that doesn't make sense. The water adds absolutely no flavor to the sauce, so why not use something instead that is going to enhance the final product.

    Next time I was in the soda section of the grocery store, I picked up a 2 liter of Vernors Ginger Ale (an Michigan original) to give his concept a try.

    How to Make Ginger Ale Cranberry Sauce

    I dusted off my homemade jellied cranberry sauce recipe and went to work on this new recipe. I simply replace the water with ginger ale, and cut out a tablespoon of sugar, since the ginger ale itself is sweetened.

    The results - we have a winner!

    The ginger ale added more depth of flavor to the sauce. The ginger flavor wasn't super strong with the Vernors as I would have liked it to be, so the next time I upped the ante and used Reed's Extra Ginger Brew, ad that made way more of an impression. Don't be scared to reach for the strong stuff, it will pay off here. I also liked the carbonation of the soda pop adds another textural element, you could "taste" the bubbles!

    Molds for the Sauce

    You could just serve it out of a bowl or you could get fancy.

    What I did was I actually used a cookie bowl pan as a mold. I simply poured the sauce in the pan when it was still hot. Then carefully remove them when it had fully cooled. Makes for a great presentation. You could use any sort of gelatin mold as well.

    Or do like Alton Brown from Good Eats does, and use a clean empty can, so that it resembles the stuff right out of the can. It will be your secret for those that must have the can.

    Other Alternatives

    Adding flavor doesn't necessarily have to stop that there, although this sauce is pretty good with the ingredients above.

    If you really into ginger, try chopping up some crystallized or candied ginger. Chop it up really fine and add it to the liquid before you bring it to a boil.

    You also could add some orange zest - that is a classic flavor combination. Or you could replace some or all of the sugar with honey. A rich, dark honey like a buckwheat honey would really do wonders.

    To sum it up, the sky is the limit. Play around with it. Make this recipe your own.

    Ginger Ale Cranberry Sauce

    Ginger Ale Cranberry Sauce

    Make homemade cranberry sauce using strong ginger ale.
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    Course: Side Dish
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: cranberries
    Prep Time: 5 minutes
    Cook Time: 10 minutes
    Total Time: 15 minutes
    Servings: 6 servings
    Author: Eric Samuelson

    Ingredients

    • 12 oz fresh cranberries
    • 1 cup pure cane sugar remove 1 tablespoon of the sugar
    • 1 cup strong ginger ale like Reed's

    Instructions

    • Bring the ginger ale and sugar to a boil in a large pan.
    • Once you reach a boil add the cranberries and return to a boil.
    • Turn the heat down until the mixture is boiling gently. If you let the mixture boil too hard you may end up with a mess on your hands.
    • Let it boil for 10 minutes.
    • If you wish to make whole cranberry sauce, just pour it into a bowl. For jellied sauce: push the mixture through a sieve to strain out the skins. This will produce a sauce must like that in a can, expect with a better, fresher flavor.
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    1. marie daniel

      April 23, 2014 at 11:46 pm

      I made this, this past Christmas, I will never buy canned cranberries again. Hands down the best freshest cranberry sause I've ever had!

    2. Eric Samuelson

      April 24, 2014 at 4:19 am

      Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it.

    3. Dave Thulstrup

      November 27, 2014 at 5:17 pm

      I asked the gingerale question yesterday and found your cranberry recipe? I followed it and also added chopped walnut, chopped hazlenuts and seedless cutie mandarins, then topped it with a layer of mandarins interspaced with whole walnuts. It turned out to be really good!

      Thanks, Dave

    4. Eric Samuelson

      December 01, 2014 at 7:07 am

      Wow, you really dressed it up. Nice work. Glad you enjoyed it.

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