I have never been a cranberry fan until Matt made this Healthy Cranberry Sauce! Now, i’ll be stuffing my face this year with turkey, low carb rolls, pecan pie and this cranberry sauce! It’s also a really simple recipe you can make days in advance if you want to get it out of the way before the big preparations begin on the actual day of Thanksgiving! Just because you’re on a ketogenic or low carb diet does not mean you shouldn’t be able to indulge in your favorite Thanksgiving foods!
My Favorite Thanksgiving Cranberry Sauce!
If you weren’t around last year, you may have missed out on all the holiday recipes we made. We had pies and side dishes galore. We even had a cranberry relish recipe, but we think this is 100x better and will be loved by everyone at the dinner table! Maybe you’re not a cranberry person, and that is totally alright because we have many more low carb holiday recipe options, such as our low carb green bean casserole, cauliflower mash and keto gravy, and pumpkin pie cheesecake! Not impressed? Well, we’ve got a bunch more great holiday recipes in line for you this year so keep checking back because you won’t want to miss out!
Who Doesn’t Want To Make An Easy Cranberry Sauce?
When the holidays approach you start to see lights strung throughout stores, coffee cups change to holiday colors and people start to smile a little more. However, the actual day of Thanksgiving and Christmas can be quite the opposite. It’s not always fun gathering with family and distant relatives, sharing in drinks and a laboring meal that one or a couple people have prepared. Whether or not you are hosting the holiday dinner I think you’ll be happy to know that this cranberry sauce recipe is easy to make in advance and allows you to not only indulge in a sugar free cranberry sauce at dinner, but have more time to make positive memories with family and friends!
Healthy Cranberry Sauce
As I already mentioned, cranberry sauce has never been my thing. And, those who do love it are obsessed with it. I have friends that refuse to have Thanksgiving without the cranberry sauce. Even when Matt completed the recipe and took beautiful pictures I was hesitant to try it, but to my and his surprise I was impressed. I even went in for seconds! Maybe I’d been missing out on cranberry sauce all these years or maybe this healthy cranberry sauce is going to be your new favorite holiday recipe!
Recipe can be quickly added to MyFitnessPal – Search “KetoConnect – Healthy Cranberry Sauce”
Healthy Cranberry Sauce | Low Carb, Keto Friendly!
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces Fresh Cranberries
- 1 cup Water
- 2 tbsp Chia Seeds
- 40 drops Liquid Stevia
Instructions:
- Heat a medium saucepan over medium heat and add the cranberries and water. Allow to reduce until you achieve a thick consistency.
- The cranberries will burst and this should take about 8-10 minutes.
- Once fully reduced and thickened to liking, remove from heat, and stir in the chia seeds and liquid stevia.
- Pour into a seal able container and store in the fridge or serve immediately. Enjoy!
I’m going to make Mexican ground pork stuffing. I used to make another Mexican stuffing, recipe follows.
1 pound butter
1 pound Keto bread cut into small cubes
1 pound broken pecans
1 pound cored, peeled apples, diced
1 pound pitted prunes diced.
The ground pork recipe has capers, apples, raisins, sage, fennel seeds and lots of herbs. Get a pork tenderloin and ask to have it ground. Ralph’s has lean ground pork.
I was thinking of using frozen cranberries and sugar free orange jello not sure if it would be good or not.
How long will it keep?
It should keep at least a week in a sealed container in the fridge.
You should experiment with Pomona’s Pectin. You can gel anything with it, even with NO sugar. I made cranberry sauce and strained out the skins, so it came out jellied. You can use ANY sweetener except Nutrasweet (which you wouldn’t be using anyway lol)
Has anyone tried Splenda for sweetner substitute? If so what was the out come
If you like orange in your cranberry, adding the zest of 1 orange adds a negligible amount of carbs (2.4 instead of 2.3 net carbs) and adds another level of complexity to the flavor.
I should have read the comments before I made it. 🙂 Super easy and my first time making homemade cranberry sauce. It’s a bit tart with the Stevia drops. I will like it as a side to Thanksgiving dinner. I really had no idea cranberry sauce was so easy. Thanks for the other ideas, probably too late to do anything to it. Thanks!
Add some jalapeno and orange zest. So very good!
Thanks and finally a recipe of cranberry sauce without orange flavor taking away from the delicious cranberry taste! No chia for us either on this one! Less is more!