Vanilla Cranberry Sauce

Elmotoo's Note:

Now THIS is worth writing home about, so here I am! I wanted to do something different with my cranberry sauce this year. Enough of the citrus, no shallots for making compote...vanilla! I have a few dried out beans that I've been hoarding! Now that we have a supply of fresh beans, time to use the old - why not drop one in the cranberry sauce? How bad could it be? OMG.....it was divine!!! Vanilla sugar adds extra vanilla flavr but you can certainly use regular sugar.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 lb fresh cranberries
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup vanilla sugar
• 1 vanilla bean, old, dried out ones work well here

Directions:

1. Put all ingredients in a medium saucepan & bring to a boil.
2. Simmer about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pull out the vanilla bean, slice open & scrape the seeds into the sauce. Add the bean back to the sauce & continue simmering & stirring occasionally until cranberries have popped.
3. Cool & serve or refrigerate. Remove bean just before serving.

Reviews

[iris5555]

We loved this! The vanilla adds such a nice mellow flavor! I used a 12 oz bag of cranberries, 2/3 cup water but all the sugar.

[Doc's Mom]

I served this for Thanksgiving… finally a cranberry sauce people will eat! A week before, I measured 1 cup a sugar in a jar and threw in a vanilla bean. So when I was ready to make this dish I just threw in the contents of the jar into the cranberries. Thanks for posting! YUMM!

[Sydney Mike]

A GREAT SAUCE, & a definite keeper of a recipe! I love cranberries, so this was a no-brainer & in combination with the intenst vanilla flavor, OUTSTANDING! Thanks so much! [Tagged, made & reviewed in the Aus/NZ Recipe Swap #21]