Spiced Cranberry Sauce
Source: Low Carb
Luxury
One 1-pound box fresh cranberries
1 1/2 Cups water
2 tsp grated orange peel (fresh is best!)
Dash of allspice
Dash of cloves
10 drops of orange extract
5 drops of red food color [optional]
1 Cup SplendaŽ
Liquid sweetener (saccharine, cyclamate, etc)
equal to 1 Cup Sugar
Bring cranberries, water and orange peel to a boil. Boil until the skin of the
berries pop open (about 5 minutes.) Remove from heat, add remaining ingredients,
and mix till thoroughly combined. Cool in refrigerator before serving.
An excellent accompaniment to your low-carb Thanksgiving Turkey meal!
Makes appox. 3 Cups. 1 gram per Tablespoon serving.
NOTE: You can use all Splenda as your sweetener,
but you'll lower the carb count AND make a sweeter mix by combining 2 different
sweeteners. Do NOT use Equal (aspartame) in this recipe as temperatures are too
high for safety or for sweetness not to break down.