Can I make cranberry sauce from dried cranberries?

[seconds]

I live overseas and we can't get fresh or canned cranberries here - but we can get Craisins. For Thanksgiving I thought maybe I could make a cranberry sauce out of them but I read somewhere that it won't work because of the lack of pectin in dried fruit to make the sauce gel. Has anyone made cranberry sauce out of Craisins before? Or have other ideas for Thanksgiving side dishes that I could make with Craisins?

[dfrostnh]

To make what looks like jellied cranberry sauce, you might be better off to use cranberry juice cocktail and pectin. It still might be too sweet. I think the easiest thing would be to use a recipe for raisin sauce subbing craisins for the raisins. Different from cranberry sauce but should still be good. Or maybe a chutney, again subbing craisins for the raisins. My DIL's favorite salad (she hates tomatoes) is the raw broccoli and raisin salad with bacon bits and red onion. I think my mother sometimes put raisins in the stuffing. I would love to eliminate mashed potatoes from our menu. If I could, I would make a couscous or rice dish with craisins etc.

[Cherylptw]

I don't like cranberry sauce but I love dried cranberries and cranberry juice so I came up with what I think cranberry sauce should be. I make an orange cranberry sauce with dried cranberries which might work well for you.

Whisk together 2 cups cranberry juice (NOT THE CRANBERRY JUICE COCKTAIL), 2 teaspoons cornstarch and 1/4 cup brown sugar in a medium saucepan; bring to a simmer over med. low heat; cook for five minutes, whisking occasionally, until mixture is reduced by one third. Stir in 1 1/2 cups dried cranberries, 1 cup orange marmalade, 1/4 teaspoon grated fresh ginger, pinch of allspice.

Reduce heat to low and continue cooking for another 8-10 minutes or until cranberries are slightlty rehydrated. Stir in one cup of fresh orange sections, pith removed (don't use mandarin oranges) and remove from heat. Chill before serving. *You can add more sugar if it's not sweet enough for you and/or stir in some chopped toasted pecans or walnuts for variety

[fmcoxe6188]

Wow! That sounds fantastic!

[seconds]

That sounds really good - I'll try that! We can't get turkeys here so will likely have chicken or some other meats - what do you usually put this sauce on?

[Nanaharber]

When I want jellied cranberry sauce, nothing else works for me. Well, my can usually says ""Jellied" cranberry sauce. Sooo, I figure you can treat it like any fruit when you are going to make jelly. Follow the instructions on the "Sure Jell" package. I also would imagine the consistency would depend on whether you pureed your cranberries or perhaps even ommitted the skins altogether like when you make grape jelly. I hope you enjoy it.

P.S. be creative and use candy molds and make all kinds of decorative plates with your fresh veggies and deviled eggs.

[ozman641]

well, here it is! This thanksgiving we were supposed to have alot of people over for dinner. Because of the weather conditions, no one showed, to include the one who was bringing the cranberry sauce.So. looking through the pantry, we realized there was no cranberry sauce. All we had was dried craisins and this is the recipe we will use from here on out because it rocked the cranberry sauce kingdom.

dried cranberry sauce for thanksgiving:

1 1/2 cups dried craisins
3/4 cup water or preferably cranberry juice or pomegranate cran mix
1/3 cup sugar
dried orange peel, real, orange
1/4 tsp salt
peel, orange marmalade, or orange juice instead of water
add all ingredients and boil lightly until the cranberries plump up. then add 2 tbl of cornstarch to 4 tbl of water and add it slowly while at a slow simmer till it is thick and of the right consistency.

you will never go back to canned cranberry sauce again. we were absolutely pleased that we not only pulled this off in a snow storm, but that it was better than any cranberry sauce we had ever had,