I love making the holidays extra special with my homemade cranberry sauce with a Croatian twist. The depth of flavour will have you adding this cranberry sauce to everything. This past summer while in Croatia I made sure to add Prošek to my list of things to bring back with me. Prošek is a sweet dessert wine that is traditionally from the southern area of Dalmatia, Croatia. It is made using dried wine grapes in the passito method. This method of winemaking is made from grapes that have been dried off the wine to concentrate the juices.
My cranberry sauce is the perfect accompaniment with turkey or lamb.
Ingredients
1/4 sugar or your sugar substitute I used coconut sugar
1/2 cup of Prošek
1 1/2 cups cranberries
1 orange (juice of orange)
Directions
Rinse and wash cranberries in a colander.
Place the sugar and Prošek in a medium saucepan on high heat and bring to a boil. Stir until sugar dissolves.
Add the orange juice
Add the cranberries and cook until they burst about 5 -8 minutes. Keep an eye on them so that it doesn’t overbuild or burn. Stirring often.
Take off heat and allow to cool (Note: the cranberry sauce will continue to thicken once cooled) If you find it a little thick add a splash of water and mix.
I love cranberry sauce with appetizers as well. Here I took some gluten-free crackers, added Boursin truffle cheese and topped with my cranberry sauce.
