Practising for Christmas meal

We tend to have fairly copious Christmas meals with the in-laws, and it has become a habit the last couple of years to try some of the new recipes beforehand. I tried a bunch a while ago, but a change of plans has put a turkey on the menu for the 25th. I figured that for once we could go American, and will prepare some sweet potatoes as accompaniment — and with sweet potatoes, for sure, there should be some cranberry sauce or jelly.


I found an interesting recipe for an 'orange - cranberry' sauce, that I decided to give a try:

• 250 g (8 ounces) cranberries (fresh or dried)
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 orange
• zest of one orange
  

Put cranberries in a bit of water (if using dried cranberries, weak them for 30 minutes or so) add the brown sugar, start heating slowly. Prepare the zest of the orange, in small slices. Cut up the orange parts in small pieces, and add the zest and orange to the pot. Cook slowly for roughly 20 minutes. In case needed add some water.

Gave a great sauce, was wonderful with the sweet potatoes as expected and gave enough to have some ready for Christmas already, as can be seen in the photo above. But, I'll certainly need to prepare an additional batch.