I love cranberry sauce but having type 2 diabetes I stay away from the canned stuff. When I found out how easy it was to make my own I was happy as a pig in, well, cranberry sauce! The first time I used a box of sugar free strawberry jello to sweeten and gel the berries. Pretty good stuff. Then I tried it just using the yellow packets of sweetener; no sugar, no pectin. Even adding some water or fruit juice didn't seem to cause a problem with the cranberry sauce gelling. I know, I know; artificial sweeteners are bad for you, but it's not like a have a half cup of the stuff every day. I store it in the fridge and it lasts for weeks, or probably would if I didn't gobble it up so quickly. Hmmm, maybe I do have too much. LOL! Maybe they have a lot more pectin in them than the other berries so they gel without the sugar.
I love cranberry sauce but having type 2 diabetes I stay away from the canned stuff. When I found out how easy it was to make my own I was happy as a pig in, well, cranberry sauce! The first time I used a box of sugar free strawberry jello to sweeten and gel the berries. Pretty good stuff. Then I tried it just using the yellow packets of sweetener; no sugar, no pectin. Even adding some water or fruit juice didn't seem to cause a problem with the cranberry sauce gelling. I know, I know; artificial sweeteners are bad for you, but it's not like a have a half cup of the stuff every day. I store it in the fridge and it lasts for weeks, or probably would if I didn't gobble it up so quickly. Hmmm, maybe I do have too much. LOL! Maybe they have a lot more pectin in them than the other berries so they gel without the sugar.