Pineapple-Orange Cranberry Sauce Recipe has a wonderfully balanced sweetness with only 4 ingredients. Plus, learn 8 great ways to use your extra holiday cranberry sauce!
Let’s face it… despite being a quintessential holiday favorite, traditional cranberry sauce recipes can be a bit tart! The traditional recipe is one of those tastes you either love or well, not love.
Why suffer through a holiday recipe simply because it’s tradition?
That’s why I’ve started serving this Pineapple-Orange Cranberry Sauce for the holidays. It’s sweeter than regular cranberry sauce, and not a single person has complained about the absence of the traditional recipe!
Ingredients Needed to Make Pineapple-Orange Cranberry Sauce
Much like a traditional cranberry sauce recipe, this recipe is simple, easy, and requires minimal ingredients. You only need four ingredients for this recipe (and I bet you can guess all of them!)…
- 12 oz bag fresh cranberries
- 1 cup finely chopped fresh pineapple and juice
- 3 washed oranges zested and juiced
- 1/4 cup white sugar
How Do You Make Orange Cranberry Sauce?
Step 1: Combine the cranberries, pineapple plus any juice, sugar, and 3 oranges zested and juiced in a medium saucepan.
Step 2: Bring up to a simmer over medium heat and cook for 15 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes.
To serve: Let cool completely before serving.
8 Great Ways to Use Your Leftover Cranberry Sauce
There is a 100% chance you will have extra cranberry sauce this year in your home, so let’s get creative and try some new ways to enjoy extra sauce for the holidays!
Fresh cranberry sauce should never go to waste. Its tart-sweet flavor is so versatile and complements a wide variety of dishes. Here are a few ideas for your leftover cranberry sauce this holiday season:
- Mix with plain Greek yogurt
- Mix into a vinaigrette
- Make cranberry compound butter for toast or bagels
- Use cranberry sauce as a glaze for chicken or meatloaf
- Mix into soft cream cheese and spread on bagels
- Pour over waffles and pancakes
- Make cranberry baked brie
- Make cranberry parfaits
You can also use some in my Christmas Tree Salad + Cranberry Vinaigrette recipe. Or add it to Thanksgiving Leftover Empanadas!
There are so many wonderful ways to use leftover cranberry sauce that you may find yourself making an extra batch or two of this Pineapple-Orange Cranberry Sauce!
How Long Does Cranberry Sauce Last?
Cranberry sauce lasts three weeks refrigerated.
Can You Make Blood Orange Cranberry Sauce?
Yes! Blood oranges have a distinct flavor (with a hint of raspberry) that will go well in this Pineapple-Orange Cranberry Sauce. Replace one or all of the three standard oranges in this recipe with blood oranges to make a blood orange cranberry sauce.
Where Did Cranberry Sauce Originate?
Did you know that cranberries are native to the United States? In fact, they’re one of the few fruits that are commercially grown here that actually are native fruits! It is believed that Native Americans made cranberry sauce with cranberries, sugar, and water as early as the 17th century.
Commercially, cranberry sauce became available in the U.S. in 1912. But it wasn’t until Ocean Spray came up with the “wet harvesting” process (you know the commercials with the farmers waist-deep in a sea of water and cranberries? that’s wet harvesting!) in the 1930s that cranberry sauce was heavily introduced to consumers.
Canned cranberry sauce came around a decade later and that allowed cranberry sauce to be served year-round. (But, in my opinion, you can’t beat fresh cranberry sauce!)
When is Cranberry Sauce Served?
Cranberry sauce is most popular in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. In the U.S. and Canada, it’s most popular for Thanksgiving; in the U.K., it’s most popular for Christmas. The U.K. version is much sourer than the version sold in the U.S., which is typically heavily sweetened.
I think you will find it to be a new holiday favorite once you give it a try. This Pineapple-Orange Cranberry Sauce recipe will make you fall in love with cranberry sauce all over again! Or, fall in love for the first time if cranberry sauce has never been your thing!
All the Best Dishes,
Lisa
XO
- 12 oz bag fresh cranberries
- 1 cup finely chopped fresh pineapple and juice
- 3 washed oranges zested and juiced
- 1/4 cup white sugar
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Combine the cranberries, pineapple plus any juice, sugar, and 3 oranges zested and juiced in a medium saucepan. Bring up to a simmer over medium heat and cook for 15 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes. Let cool completely before serving.
8 Great Ways to Use Your Leftover Cranberry Sauce
There is a 100% chance you will have extra cranberry sauce this year in your home, so let's get creative and try some new ways to enjoy extra sauce for the holidays!
Ideas for leftover cranberry sauce this holiday season:
- Mix with plain Greek yogurt
- Mix into a vinaigrette salad dressing
- Make cranberry compound butter for toast or bagels
- Use cranberry sauce as a glaze for chicken or meatloaf
- Mix into soft cream cheese and spread on bagels
- Pour over waffles and pancakes
- Make cranberry baked brie
- Make cranberry parfaits
You can also use some in my Christmas Tree Salad + Cranberry Vinaigrette recipe.
How Long Does Cranberry Sauce Last?
Cranberry sauce lasts three weeks refrigerated.
Can You Make Blood Orange Cranberry Sauce?
Yes! Blood oranges have a distinct flavor (with a hint of raspberry) that will go well in this Pineapple-Orange Cranberry Sauce. Replace one or all of the three standard oranges in this recipe with blood oranges to make a blood orange cranberry sauce.
Love this cranberry sauce! I like the added pineapple and orange flavors. I used the leftovers to stuff into biscuit dough and baked them up for breakfast. It made the biscuits so much yummier.