Easy Sugar Free Cranberry Sauce with only FOUR INGREDIENTS and water. Five minutes of prep and the smell of cranberries, cinnamon, and vanilla will fill your house. This delicious keto cranberry sauce is also low carb, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, and THM friendly! The perfect accompaniment to your holiday.
I love cranberry sauce. It just tastes like fall. Whole berry sauce. Not jellied. That just looks a little too processed to me when you slide it out of the can and it still has the lines on it. At least with canned whole berry sauce, you can stir it up and have it look like the real stuff. But cranberry sauce is SO easy to make you never need to buy it. It takes less than 5 minutes of hands-on time to make a batch of beautiful, red, delicious cranberry sauce.
How to make Cranberry Sauce without Sugar
Cranberries are naturally very tart. You will something to sweeten them when making keto cranberry sauce. I use my own blend of xylitol, erythritol, and stevia in my recipes. This is twice as sweet as sugar. It is comparable to Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet and Truvia.
Making my own sweetener blend saves a ton of money. I can make it for under $7 a pound and since it is twice as sweet as sugar it lasts longer than blends with a 1:1 sugar ratio.
Ingredients in Sugar-Free Cranberry Sauce
- cranberries - fresh or frozen work well
- water
- sugar-free sweetener
- vanilla
- cinnamon
The vanilla and cinnamon can really be optional, reducing this to just two ingredients, but I find that they complement the flavor of the berries nicely so do recommend adding them.
Leftover Cranberry Sauce?
This sugar-free cranberry sauce is delicious as a surprise cupcake filling in the Cranberry Cupcakes pictured above! And I love having some sugar free cranberry sauce on hand to put on top of my Cranberry Baked Brie.
This homemade cranberry sauce will last for weeks in the refrigerator. I make a double batch before Thanksgiving and use it until the new year! Besides serving low carb cranberry sauce with turkey I use it in these cupcakes and baked brie. I also use keto cranberry sauce as a condiment to pork and chicken and in coffee cakes such as my Cranberry Cake with Walnut Topping.
And if you have leftover cranberries make some of my Sugar-Free Dried Cranberries!
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Ingredients
- 12 oz bag of cranberries
- 4 oz water
- 1 cup Joy Filled Eats Sweetener (or see alternatives in recipe notes)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Combine the cranberries and water in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat until all the berries pop, about 5-7 minutes. Add the other ingredients and reduce the heat to low. Cook until desired thickness. It will thicken further as it cools.
- Store in the fridge for up to 2 weeks or you can freeze it. I love having some on hand to put on top of my Baked Brie.
Notes
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Julia Bettis says
I love making this sugar free version of jellied cranberry sauce! It is so simple and easy! I run the cranberries through my food processor to break them up ahead of cooking. I also add a package of gelatin to the final mixture to get a firmer result. Delicious!
Marlene says
Yummy! Turkey and cranberries and no guilt! I did ad orange zest as I really love the combination of cranberry and orange..
Rachel says
Oh this was lovely. I also doubled the recipe. I used one cup gentle sweet and one half cup super sweet. I also squeezed about a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice (I just had half a lemon from another recipe hanging around). I did use the vanilla, but for the cinnamon, I placed four cinnamon sticks into the mixture as it was boiling. It was the best cranberry sauce I’ve ever made. Thank you for the simplicity of this recipe! <3
Bridgette Robertson says
I love this! Why is it S instead of FP? Just curious. Thank you!!! It’s so good!
Taryn says
It is a FP. 😊
Kathleen Blando Brand says
Love it doubled the recipe. Used scant cup ERythritol, scant half cup golden Monkfruit, two TBS Stevia. My Keto phobic husband liked it a lot. Now that's a big deal!
Elizabeth Ferrell says
Yummy. I also added to this 1 granny smith apple and 2 mandarin oranges then blended because my family does not care for chunky sauce. Loved it!!!
Alice says
Delicious! So simple and easy to make! Mine got a little crystalized, I used Lakanto monkfruit sweetener. But the flavor was amazing! Thank you for this recipe.