Cranberry Sauce

There's nothing better with your Christmas turkey than home made cranberry sauce.

Ingredients

• 225g (8oz) Cranberries

• 100g (4oz) Demerara (or other brown) Sugar

• grated rind and juice of 1 orange. Alternatively you can also use a fresh good quality orange juice here. Just add a glass full and reduce a bit more if the sauce is too thick. This year I used Tropicana Cranberry Blend, and the result was superb.
  

• glass of port (85-120 ml / 3-4 fl oz)

Preparation

• Put the cranberries, sugar orange rind, orange juice and port in a pan.
• Stir it over a gentle heat until the sugar disolves.
• Simmer for 5-8 minutes untill the cranberries are soft and the sauce has thickened.
• Allow to cool, then poor into a rigid container.

This sauce keeps up to a week in the fridge or for up to 2 months in the freezer.

When quality cranberry sauce is so easy to make, there's no reason to use the shop bought variety, other than a lack of cranberries that is.