Apple-Orange Cranberry Sauce

Granny Smith apples build on the already tart and sweet profile of cranberry sauce, and the addition of extra orange juice and orange zest gives adds a brightness.

Mulled Wine Cranberry Sauce

Make this elegant and cozy Mulled Wine Cranberry Sauce for your adult Thanksgiving feast. A sweet-tart combination of two holiday classics.

Brandied Cherry Cranberry Sauce

This sweet-tart, lightly-spiced Brandied Cherry Cranberry Sauce is an elegant twist on the classic Thanksgiving side. Alcohol-free substitution ideas included. Make it ahead for easy entertaining!

Spiced Cranberry Sauce

For this variation, add spices like cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cloves as well as orange juice and zest, then finish it off with a bit of spiced rum. The end result is incredible: a cranberry sauce that has a multidimensional array of seasonal flavors that fits seamlessly into any Thanksgiving meal.

Cranberry-Apple Relish

There's more than one way to enjoy cranberries this Thanksgiving than in gelatinous sauce form, and this cranberry-apple relish is a great alternative with some added bonuses.

Cranberry-Pomegranate Sauce

In line with traditional cranberry sauce, the addition of pomegranate pushes the fruity flavor further without covering up that sweet and tart cranberry flavor you expect with your Thanksgiving dinner.

The World's Easiest Thanksgiving Cranberry Sauce

We're saying it: this is officially The World's Easiest Cranberry Sauce, and is also incredibly simple to tweak for your own tastes and preferences.

Sam Sifton's Basic Cranberry Sauce

Yes, cranberry sauce is a given. You probably make a homemade version to accompany its canned brethren in order to appease the most strident of canned-sauce believers. But often homemade cranberry sauce recipes include a cascade of spices, fruit, and nuts to distract from the fact that the sauce is simply a frozen bag of bouncy fruits cooked up with far too much sugar. In Thanksgiving: How to Cook it Well, Sam Sifton offers a straight-forward, yet well-balanced Basic Cranberry Sauce to counter a...

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

This is a very simple, classic homemade cranberry sauce recipe. It's sweet (but not overly sweet) and tart with a little touch of lemon that I think makes all the difference. It takes all of 3 minutes of active preparation time and 20 minutes on the stove - very low maintenance!

Cranberry Chutney with Orange and Crystalized Ginger

A one-pot wonder that cooks in 15 minutes, this cranberry chutney brings together the holiday flavors of sweet-tart cranberries, bright orange, and spicy ginger. It's a touch exotic and touch homey all at once.