6 Best Canned Cranberry Sauces for Thanksgiving Dinner
These store-bought cranberry sauces are the perfect partner to your turkey.
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There are some people who swear by homemade cranberry sauce, and then there are those who just love canned cranberry sauce — no matter how gourmet their uncle tries to get with it every year at Thanksgiving dinner. The truth is, you just can’t replicate that perfectly jellied, delightfully jiggly texture at home. While we’re usually all about from-scratch cooking, this classic Thanksgiving side dish can be exceptional store-bought too.
Or maybe you prefer the texture and flavor of homemade sauce, but you just don’t have the time? Between roasting a turkey, whipping up the sides and baking Thanksgiving desserts, we don’t know how anyone has the time, TBH! Thankfully, there are delicious canned whole cranberry sauce options out there, and perfectly sweet-tart cranberry relishes that seriously taste homemade. So no matter which kind you prefer, we tracked down the best canned cranberry sauces to add to your Turkey Day dinner.
Unsure how to serve canned cranberry sauce? The most classic presentation is to slice jellied cranberry sauce into rounds, or, use cookie cutters to make festive shapes! Whole cranberry sauce and cranberry relish just need to be opened, transferred into your favorite small serving dish and served with a spoon. That’s it!
For recipes using canned cranberry sauce (if you’re lucky enough to have extra!) check out our Thanksgiving leftovers round-up.
Slather your post-Thanksgiving sandwich with a generous spoonful of this sweet, sour and slightly spicy sauce. The heat will balance the richness of your leftovers.
If you'd rather a cranberry condiment that almost makes you pucker, Ocean Spray's Whole Berry sauce is the best option for you. This luscious sauce, with big chunks of berries, lets the cranberry's tartness shine without being unpleasantly sour.
A nod to the comfort of Mom's homemade sauce at Thanksgiving, Stonewall Kitchen includes warm fall spices, like cloves, in their relish. It is the perfect elegant addition to your Thanksgiving dinner without being overly sweet or cloying.
Our tasters found this go-to to be the tartest of the bunch. While it's a great sliceable option, this jelly maintains the juiciness of the cranberries, making it refreshing to pair with turkey and all of your sides.
This saucy side gives a real berry taste and balances sweet and sour well. To make this store bought cranberry sauce a little extra special, add some orange zest for a citrusy flair.
The short, non-GMO ingredients list, with no corn syrup or artificial colors added, means this cranberry sauce has a delicious, clean flavor that's true to the fruit.
Samantha (she/her) is the Senior Editor at Delish, where she edits the most-talked-about food news and features on the internet. In her previous role as Assistant Editor in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, she taste-tested hundreds of products and recipes (tough job!). A graduate of Fordham University, she considers the kitchen to be her happiest place.
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