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Fall recipes: Healthy fresh cranberry sauce

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Packages of fresh cranberry packages begin to appear in supermarket produce section by mid-October, but you can find frozen cranberries throughout the year.

You can also freeze fresh cranberries and make them into sauce without defrosting, and combine them with other kinds of fruit including blueberries  to make other sauces.

Package instructions for fresh cranberries advise using one cup of water and one cup of cane sugar per package of cranberries to make cranberry sauce, but you don’t need the sugar.

Healthy fresh cranberry sauce

Ingredients:

• Pour a third to a quarter of a cup of mild honey, agave nectar, or other sweetener into a one-cup measure. 

• Fill the rest of the cup with water or orange juice.

Instructions

Pour cranberries into a sauce pan.

Boil fresh cranberries in sweetener and  liquid  over a low to medium heat. Stir occasionly.

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Rosalie Leposky has taught cooking classes and written about Florida food for over three decades. She likes to explore ethnic fare and discover small local restaurants that travel guides don't list. Contact her at leposkyr@gmail.com.

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