Slow Cooker Cranberry Sauce
Let the Thanksgiving planning begin! I love Thanksgiving food, but just because everyone celebrates this holiday with a gigantic feast doesn’t mean you can’t make some better-for-you choices. This slow cooker cranberry sauce, for example, uses lots of fresh fruit ingredients and is less than 100 calories (and only 3 Weight Watchers SmartPoints on myWW Green, Blue or Purple) per serving. To view your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site, click here! As someone who has always stuck to the canned jelly variety in the past, I have to say, this tastes so much better (and I like the canned kind). This sauce is equal parts sweet and tart and has a really bold, fresh flavor. It tasted so good over turkey! I can’t even imagine if there were to be gravy added into the mix. In the past I’ve always eaten my cranberry jelly at room temperature, but I have to recommend you serve this sauce warm…it’s heavenly.
As a bonus, this cranberry sauce is made in your slow cooker
Looking for more Thanksgiving sides? I’ll be posting others this month, but for now you can browse through previous posts like Stuffins, Goat Cheese Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Balsamic Roasted Vegetables or Turkey Apple Pecan Stuffing. Don’t forget dessert! Try Crustless Mini Pumpkin Pies or this Apple Cinnamon Tart!
Slow Cooker Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh cranberries
- 3/4 cup dried sweetened cranberries, such as Craisins
- 2 cups peeled and diced apples
- ½ teaspoon orange zest, from one large orange
- ¼ cup fresh orange juice, also from a large orange
- 3 tablespoons honey
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- little pinch of salt
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in the slow cooker and stir together. Cook for 2 hours on high or 3-4 on low until ingredients are softened and easy to combine. Using the back of a large spoon, mush the apples and berries together and then stir until well combined. Lick the spoon and serve hot or cold!
Notes
2 per serving (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com) very slightly adapted from Peas & Crayons
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This is awesome – I love, LOVE cranberry sauce. In fact, this might be made for the office holiday party.
I hope it’s a hit! 🙂
Do you think I could make this ahead & freeze it?
Definitely
In addition to serving with Turkey…I bet the leftovers would be great stirred into my oatmeal or spread on an English muffin! Need to snag some fresh cranberries before they disappear.
Thanks. Nancy
Great ideas!! I was thinking it’d be incredible spooned over some vanilla ice cream as well. That may be our Christmas dessert! I love the idea of adding it to oatmeal.
This sounds great! I’ve just boiled my cranberries in a pot with a whole cup of sugar every thanksgiving. This sounds like a new and fun twist with less sugar in it, plus the added bonus of having it in the crock pot and saving stove top space! Thanks!
I hope you love it!
What could I substitute for orange juice? My husband doesn’t care for that combo.
Maybe apple juice or lemonade?
Prune juice LOL. Just kidding. ♥
That made me laugh! :o) Ellen Renee
What kind of apples would you recommend?
I think any kind will work. I think I used McIntosh.
This sounds so good! I can’t wait to try it on Thanksgiving 🙂
Hope you like it!
Made this today and everyone loved it! Glad I made a double batch!
So happy it was a hit!
I made this for Thankgiving and found it to be really sour. I am sure maybe I could add sugar??
Sure, you could add more honey to taste if this was too tart for your liking.
I made this for Thanksgiving and everyone LOVED it! It was a huge hit!
Glad to hear it! 🙂
Em, I made this for Thanksgiving and it was such a hit that my husband bought more cranberries, oranges and apples for me to make another batch so he can polish off leftovers with. I didn’t even have to doctor it!
Yay, I’m so glad to hear that!! Thanks for reporting back 🙂
Hi Emily! Just wanted to share that this dish was on our Thanksgiving table this year. It was a hit (at least with the few of us that eat cranberries)! We loved the subtle orange flavor and the spices. I’ve been trying to convince my mom to let me make a cranberry sauce for a few years and I think the ease of this recipe was perfect to convince her it’s really worth the smallest bit of extra effort it takes. 🙂 She’s asked me to make it again next year.
That’s great to hear! I’m thrilled that it was easy and tasty enough to convince your family it’s worth the switch. Thanks so much for letting me know! 🙂
Oh this looks great!!! That’s one reason I stay away from cranberry sauce is because of all the sugar. I never thought about using apples to help with the sweetness. Thank you! 🙂
I’m allergic to apples..think i could substitute pears ?
Definitely!