What to do with frozen cranberries?

fangmouse
fangmouse Posts: 119
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I bought 2 bags of fresh cranberries but they were so tart i couldn't finish it so i stuffed them in the freezer. What can I do with them now?
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  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    make cranberry sauce, cranberry bread, cranberry pancakes, cranberry and some kind of poultry, or give them to me! :bigsmile:
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    Use them in smoothies, use them for cookies, make homemade cranberry jam, or divy them out into ice cube trays to cover with water and use as fancy ice cubes for drinks on New Year's Eve. Once they are frozen you can pop them out and put them in a plastic baggy to save space.
  • tinavflynn
    tinavflynn Posts: 80 Member
    I know the obvious answer is cranberry sauce, but my sister makes a seriously awesome cranberry sauce.

    1 cup sugar
    1 cup orange juice
    Dash (1/2 tsp or so) of Cinnamon

    Add Orange juice and sugar together and heat until sugar dissolves, then add the cranberries and dash of cinnamon. Put the cranberries on a low boil until most of them have popped. Then put them in a bowl and in the fridge until a jelly consistency.

    Enjoy!
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    Edit: ^^ that recipe is AWESOME. I've made that a couple of times.

    Plop those puppies in pancakes, waffles, muffins, any quick breads, even cookies. I wouldn't even bother thawing them out much first.
  • fangmouse
    fangmouse Posts: 119
    If I put them as they are into muffins and such, will it make the baked goods taste overly tart? :/ just curious!
  • TheGymGypsy
    TheGymGypsy Posts: 1,023 Member
    If I put them as they are into muffins and such, will it make the baked goods taste overly tart? :/ just curious!

    When you bake them they become significantly less tart and more sweet.
  • SapiensPisces
    SapiensPisces Posts: 992 Member
    I know the obvious answer is cranberry sauce, but my sister makes a seriously awesome cranberry sauce.

    1 cup sugar
    1 cup orange juice
    Dash (1/2 tsp or so) of Cinnamon

    Add Orange juice and sugar together and heat until sugar dissolves, then add the cranberries and dash of cinnamon. Put the cranberries on a low boil until most of them have popped. Then put them in a bowl and in the fridge until a jelly consistency.

    Enjoy!

    I do this, but with half the sugar and add blackberries. It's very very good. Goes well on roast beef, leftover turkey, and pretty much any other meat.
  • LishieFruit89
    LishieFruit89 Posts: 1,956 Member
    If I put them as they are into muffins and such, will it make the baked goods taste overly tart? :/ just curious!

    So typically dried cranberries are sweetened so recipes that call for those have less sugar than recipes with fresh cranberries.
    With fresh, I think it's like 2-3T for 1c cranberries.

    http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/11/meyer-lemon-and-fresh-cranberry-scones/

    also cranberry BBQ sauce

    They last for awhile in the freezer so don't worry about keeping them for a bit
  • krazeedr
    krazeedr Posts: 35 Member
    Cranberry maple syrup yam casserole:

    http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefinder/maple-cranberry-sweet-potatoes-recipes

    I love this recipe and make it as often as I can. I skip the butter though. I find no reason for it.
  • marko320
    marko320 Posts: 84 Member
    Garnish your vodka cocktails with them.
  • LishieFruit89
    LishieFruit89 Posts: 1,956 Member
    Cranberry maple syrup yam casserole:

    http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefinder/maple-cranberry-sweet-potatoes-recipes

    I love this recipe and make it as often as I can. I skip the butter though. I find no reason for it.

    Butter = deliciousness.
    it'd bring out other flavors in the food.
    Plus it's only 3T in a dish that serves 10.
    So that's only 30 more calories a serving
  • Denjo060
    Denjo060 Posts: 1,008
    I know you dont want to use them for cranberry sauce but I made it yesterday with a can of mandarin oranges (big can) and used the juice from the oranges in place of the water and cut the sugar back to half it was soo good :)
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    throw them at people you don't like.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    throw them at people you don't like.

    I recommend using a sling shot.

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  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    If I put them as they are into muffins and such, will it make the baked goods taste overly tart? :/ just curious!

    When you bake them they become significantly less tart and more sweet.

    This. Heating them up some way makes them sweeter.
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    This is my favorite thing to do with whole cranberries, and it's so easy, even an idiot like me can do it.
    http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarbsidedishes/r/cransauce.htm
  • kbmnurse
    kbmnurse Posts: 2,484 Member
    google some recipes. I make Cranberry/apple Bread. It is always a hit.
  • tfleischer
    tfleischer Posts: 199 Member
    If I put them as they are into muffins and such, will it make the baked goods taste overly tart? :/ just curious!

    When you bake them they become significantly less tart and more sweet.

    Kind of like people after they get baked.....:smokin:
  • krazeedr
    krazeedr Posts: 35 Member
    Cranberry maple syrup yam casserole:

    http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefinder/maple-cranberry-sweet-potatoes-recipes

    I love this recipe and make it as often as I can. I skip the butter though. I find no reason for it.

    Butter = deliciousness.
    it'd bring out other flavors in the food.
    Plus it's only 3T in a dish that serves 10.
    So that's only 30 more calories a serving

    I'm not anti-butter, lol. I think it should be a food group unto itself - with bacon and cream cheese - for just delicious things. I don't find it adds much to this one though so I tend to skip it. I think the reduced maple syrup adds so much wonderful flavor on its own. It's a very rich flavor all by itself. Try it - if you're a fan of yams and cranberries, you'll be a fan of this!
  • marko320
    marko320 Posts: 84 Member
    If I put them as they are into muffins and such, will it make the baked goods taste overly tart? :/ just curious!

    When you bake them they become significantly less tart and more sweet.

    Kind of like people after they get baked.....:smokin:

    Word.
  • dellaquilaa
    dellaquilaa Posts: 230 Member
    I did the same. Made cranberry bread, cran-orange cookies and tossed some in salad...mmm
  • pita7317
    pita7317 Posts: 1,437 Member
    Cranberry Chutney. Google some recipes. Freezes well, my friends beg for it.
    Great gift. Nice jar, ribbon. Done deal.
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    so good in smoothies
  • currlee
    currlee Posts: 395 Member
    AWESOME cranberry sauce:
    http://lickmyspoon.com/recipes/orange-and-ginger-spiced-cranberry-sauce/

    Just made this bread for Christmas gifts and it was super yummy(I added the spices from the cranberry sauce recipe, but in smaller quantity):
    http://ovenlovinblog.com/cranberry-orange-gift-bread/

    I also made cranberry mint muffins this fall. And adding them to smoothies or shakes is a great way to add in those amazing little berries to your everyday. They're beneficial to your liver and urinary tract. They contain antioxidants and can help lower blood sugar. And they stimulate the production of digestive enzymes. :)
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    vanilla flavoured protein powder + plain yoghurt + frozen fruit = excellent post-workout shake

    also I put frozen berries on my breakfast cereal in the morning, and sometimes I eat them right out of the packet, still frozen. Cranberries are not very sweet, so if you don't like the taste on their own, you can always mix them with other frozen berries in all these ideas.
  • Mom0819
    Mom0819 Posts: 82 Member
    FRESH CRANBERRY SALAD

    Place 2 bags of fresh cranberries into a food processor & chop into small pieces (don't mash or process too long).

    Dump into a large bowl, then process a whole orange, peel & all, and add to the bowl.

    Add a large can of pineapple tidbits that have been well drained.

    Add a good helping of chopped pecans or walnuts, & stir everything together with a large spoon.

    Finally add sugar to desired sweetness or tartness.

    We usually serve in individual cups topped with a large blob of whipped cream
  • MalloryMelts
    MalloryMelts Posts: 28 Member
    Ocean Spray has a recipe for cranberry relish. Its a mixture of frozen cphole cranberries and orange. It calls for sugar but I use splenda. :-)
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    M.C.D.'s New Cranberry Sauce recipe for 2013:

    One bag frozen cranberries.
    2/3 cup dark agave nectar.
    1 cup water.

    Bring to a boil on the stove in a medium saucepan.

    Boil gently after lowering heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cranberries will pop and burst.

    Push through a drainer or pasta drain spoon with big holes rather than a mesh sieve. (To keep the seeds but lose the peels.)

    Stir and pour into a dish you plan to serve it in carefully.

    Refrigerate and it will gel up similar to the canned stuff. Serve it with a little turkey on the side....LOL we LOVE this sauce so much our ratio of turkey to cranberry got really skewed this year.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    I have eaten a very interesting cranberry jalapeno salsa that seemed to be made up of the following.

    What follows is an approximation, not a "recipe" i've seen anywhere but an estimate based on said "salsa":

    1 bag frozen cranberries thawed.
    1-2 fresh jalapeno peppers depending on heat and how hot you like it.
    One bunch cilantro.

    The cranberries appeared to be halved and not cut much smaller than that.

    The jalapeno's appeared to be cored and seeded and diced small. (I'd keep a few seeds if you like more heat.)

    The cilantro was chopped.

    It was all stirred together and I wouldn't be surprised if a little lime juice or orange juice or a combo was bringing it all together. Probably like at the most 2 tablespoons of any combo of both.

    I'd serve it on a tortilla with turkey.

    I ate it alongside my turkey the day I had it. It was yum.
  • mamacoates
    mamacoates Posts: 430 Member
    Bump for later reference.

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