It can be meticulous cleaning and preparing fresh cranberries for a cranberry sauce. While canned cranberry sauce might not be your first choice with homemade dishes, you can still add ingredients to make it taste just as good as a dish created from scratch.

Garten places the canned cranberry sauce into a pot and adds a few tablespoons of freshly squeezed orange juice, about a teaspoon of orange zest and half of a grated apple. She cooks this at a simmer, letting all the flavors mingle and meld—though the apple adds more than just flavor.

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