Cranberry Sauce

Thanksgiving Dinner Recipe

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Cranberry Sauce is a recipe usually prepared for Thanksgiving Dinner, sweet, tasty, and awesome. The recipe for Cranberry Sauce is very simple, as it has only three ingredients: cranberries, sugar, and water. It cannot be simpler than this! Before letting you know the steps for making the Cranberry Sauce, let me tell you the story on how I found out about this awesome recipe.

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• • Did you Know?
  • About the recipe for Cranberry Sauce
  • How I found out about the Cranberry Sauce Recipe
  • Can it be eaten if I’m on a Weight-Loss diet?
  • Health Benefits of Cranberry

About the recipe for Cranberry Sauce

The cranberry sauce is one of the best zero-fat desserts. If you are looking for something sweet, healthy, and fruity dessert, this kind of dish is one of the best and easiest. Control the sweetness by adding or lowering the amount of sugar, or make it more gelly by lowering the water level. With only 3 ingredients needed, this simple recipe is one of the most followed in the US. If you think it is too much sugar in it, squeeze a bit of lemon, but the taste will change a bit (will not change in a bad manner, just change).

How I found out about the Cranberry Sauce Recipe

I was invited by my friend on Thanksgiving to have dinner with them. As I entered the door, a pleasant and sweet smell caught my attention. I first thought he made something sweet for the children, but that smell still lingered. When he started to put all the goodies on the table, he also brought this sweet dish with an incredible smell. It was this Cranberry Sauce. To be honest, although I’m not proud of what I did, I tasted it as soon as it was placed on the table. Poor Garry hadn’t even carved the turkey. Both the smell and taste were as expected, so I asked for the recipe, wrote it step by step in the cookbook, and prepared it at home. The recipe you see here is the same recipe from Garry, one that I would not change, which makes you lick your fingers and redo it for both your loved ones and yourself.

You can find many types of recipes for Cranberry sweetness, but believe me, try this recipe and you will not regret it. Moreover, you will remake it whenever you have the opportunity.

Can it be eaten if I’m on a Weight-Loss diet?

Normally, when you follow a strict weight-loss diet, you should avoid sugar at all costs. But, if you have a low/medium diet, you can eat Cranberry sauce. It has 0% fat and saturated fat, and this is a great thing. However, one serving has 109 calories and you should avoid eating more than one plate. So, the answer is YES, you can eat even if you follow a slimming diet.

Health Benefits of Cranberry

Cranberries are a popular superfood. I will write here some of the most important health benefits, but not all. Being a superfood, it has a lot of healthy minerals and vitamins.

• Cranberries played a role in traditional treatments for UTIs.
• Reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
• Slowing cancer progression. A 2016 review of 34 preclinical studies revealed that cranberries or compounds in cranberries had several beneficial effects on cancer cells in test tubes.
• Enhancing oral health. This fruit does this by preventing bacteria from binding to the surface of teeth.

Vitamins

• calcium
• iron
• magnesium
• phosphorus
• potassium
• sodium
• zinc
• vitamin C
• folate DFE
• vitamin A
• vitamin E
• vitamin K
• vitamin B-1 (thiamin)
• vitamin B-2 (riboflavin)
• vitamin B-3 (niacin)
• vitamin B-6