Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce Without Orange Juice

No ratings yet

Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce Without Orange Juice

Instant pot cranberry sauce recipe uses just three ingredients including fresh cranberries, sugar and water.

This easy 3 ingredient cranberry sauce is made without orange juice but very delicious even without any additional flavors.

Prep Time2

Cook Time4

pressure build up and release time22

Total Time28

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cranberry recipes, cranberry sauce without orange juice, easy cranberry sauce recipe, instant pot cranberry sauce

Servings: tablespoons

Calories: 24kcal

Author: Parvathy

Ingredients

1.5 cups cranberries (12 oz)
1 cup sugar may use more if needed
¼ cup water
2 tablespoons apple juice (optional, adjust to taste as needed)

Instructions

Wash the cranberries very well and add it to the instant pot.
Add the sugar also to the instant pot.
Finally add the water and mix well with the cranberries and sugar.
Close the instant pot with lid in sealing position and cook in high pressure for 4 minutes.
Once the cooking is done, the pot will beep and you can press the 'keep warm/cancel' button and wait for a natural pressure release.
Once the pressure is all released, carefully and slowly open the lid (it may appear a little foamy but when you stir it will be fine).
Stir the contents and you may add more sugar if needed (you can taste and decide if you need more sugar to add sweetness since it will all depend on the tartness of the cranberries that you use).
Also you may simmer the contents for about a minute for the desired consistency.
Keep in mind that the cranberry sauce thickens as it cools down so you shouldn't simmer for more time.
Finally, stir in the apple juice (if using) which will help greatly with balancing the tart taste of cranberry sauce!
Transfer the prepared cranberry sauce to clean, dry and airtight glass jars and store in the refrigerator for about 2 weeks of time or you may freeze this for few more days use.

Video

Notes

is this cranberry sauce vegan?

Yes, this cranberry sauce is vegan since we only use vegan ingredients. So if you are on a vegan diet also, you can enjoy this cranberry sauce. Also this cranberry sauce makes an easy, delicious condiment in any vegetarian or vegan Thanksgiving dinner menu.

tips to make the best instant pot cranberry sauce

Always make sure to use good quality cranberries to prepare the cranberry sauce. Sometimes the package of cranberries that we buy from the stores may have a few cranberries that are not so good, so make sure to check and discard the ones which are about to go bad.

Only use the good quality cranberries to make the sauce. The sweetness of the cranberries will depend on the amount of sugar that you add and also the tartness of the cranberries that you use.

So in this recipe, we have used just 1 cup of sugar, but depending on how tart the cranberries are, you may need to add more sugar to balance the sweetness. You can taste the sauce and add more sugar if needed, towards the end of the preparation. As you can see, we only used 3 main ingredients in this instant pot cranberry sauce.

The main ingredients that we used are cranberries, sugar and water but we also use apple juice as an optional ingredient at the end of preparation, which greatly help with balancing the tart flavor. We made this instant pot cranberry sauce without orange juice (which is a popular ingredient in cranberry sauce recipes) but if you wish to add orange juice to it, you may replace the ¼ cup of water with fresh orange juice, though I haven't tried this myself so I can't say how the flavors will be.

Instead of orange juice, you may also use lemon juice but I think that would make the cranberry sauce too tart so you may need more sugar to balance the sweetness. Also you may try adding flavors like vanilla essence if you wish.

Nutrition