The Best Cranberry Sauce With Warm Spices And Dates

This Cranberry Sauce or Chutney has a combination of dried dates and raisins with a kick of warm spices. The perfect complement to your festive meal

A festive holiday table always needs a finger-licking sauce, a sauce that will go with anything from chicken, turkey, kabab, rice dishes, and many more. In fact for me, cranberry sauce is exactly that.” It is a Thanksgiving classic, but you can easily add it to any Pakistani or Indian meal as a chutney or murabba.

Thanksgiving is the time to be grateful! Originally, it started as a celebration of the new harvest. Over time, different cultures introduced new foods and flavors to one another, creating a mix of flavors.

I like celebrating the holiday like them, especially with an array of multicultural food and American food with a desi twist!

A few years ago, I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner. That’s when the mixed cuisine array gave me the idea to make cranberry sauce with a desi twist.

The result was delicious. Not only did it pair well with the Indian and American dishes. The sauce was loved by everyone, and ever since then, I’ve known this is a keeper.

This homemade Cranberry Sauce recipe contains a few unexpected ingredients that not only make it a unique sauce but also perfectly complement your holiday meals.

Adding some spices, raisins, and dried dates, in fact, creates a warm, earthy flavor, making it the ultimate treat to enjoy all winter long. Moreover, the best part is that it only takes 15 minutes from start to finish and is the perfect balance of sweet and tart.

FAQs For Homemade Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients You’ll Need To Make Cranberry Sauce

Cranberry Sauce Substitutions

You can easily swap sauce ingredients based on your taste or what you have on hand. For example, dried dates can be replaced by dried mangoes or dried apricots. Similarly, currants or blueberries can replace raisins. This flexibility makes the recipe perfect for customizing during the busy holiday season or for personal preference.

• Dried dates can be replaced by dried mangoes or dried apricots.
• Similarly, currants or blueberries could replace raisins.
• Other spices can be easily replaced by any holiday spice, such as nutmeg, cinnamon, or allspice.

Here are my favorite foods to serve with this finger-licking chutney:

Butter Herb Chicken,

Hunter Beef

Biryani | Plain Biryani

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Homemade Cranberry Chutney

Recipe by Urooj Naeem

5.0 from 1 vote

Course: SauceDifficulty: Eassy

Servings: 12

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12

servings

Prep time

5

minutes

Cooking time

10

minutes

Total time

15

minutes

This delightful sweet-tart sauce recipe takes only 15 minutes to make. A mix of some warm spices along with raisins and dried dates. It is the best earthy cranberry sauce. The perfect complement to your festive meal!

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Ingredients

• 12 oz cranberries

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1/4 tsp red chili powder

• 1/3 tsp cinnamon

• 1 tsp Fennel Seeds (saunf)

• 1/4 tsp Fenugreek Seeds (Meethi dana)

• 1/2 tsp black seeds (kalonji seeds)

• 2 to 3 red button chilies, optional

• 1 tbsp golden raisins

• 4 to 5 dried dates (chuara)

• 1/4 cup sugar, or according to taste

• 2 tbsp oil

• 1 1/2 cup water

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Directions

• In a pan, heat oil. Add fennel seeds, fenugreek, and black seeds.
• Stir for a minute. Once cracked, add cranberries and water. Mix and cover for 5 minutes.
• Add salt, red chili powder, and sugar. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add raisins, dried dates, and red chili buttons.
• Cover with a lid and cook for 5 minutes on a low flame.
• Uncover and remove the red chili button. Add cinnamon powder. Mix it and cover it.
• Remove from heat. Cool completely at room temperature, then transfer into an airtight jar and refrigerate.

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Notes

• The cranberry sauce will continue to thicken once it cools down.

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