Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to prepare cranberry sauce for meat for the winter? We prepare all the ingredients for making homemade lingonberry sauce for meat.
Step 2:
Peel the onion from the husk, rinse under running water and cut into small cubes. Pour olive oil into a frying pan, warm it up and fry the onion over medium heat until transparent. We transfer the fried onions to the dishes in which the sauce will be prepared.
Step 3:
Wash the orange thoroughly, wipe it with a paper towel and rub the zest of the whole orange on a very fine grater.
Step 4:
Cut the orange into several pieces, put it in a blender and grind it. We set the strainer over the bowl, put gauze on the strainer and spread the resulting orange pulp on it. We collect the gauze in a bundle and squeeze out the juice from the orange pulp.
Step 5:
Wash the lingonberries under water and transfer it to the lightly fried onion.
Step 6:
Immediately add the orange zest and pour in the orange juice. We put natural honey and mix all the contents of the pan. Put the pan on the stove and cook the sauce over low heat for 10 minutes.
Step 7:
We transfer part of the sauce to a blender and chop it, and then pour it back into the pan. You can puree with a hand blender, but it is very important that some of the berries remain whole.
Step 8:
Pour dry red wine into the pan and cook the sauce for another 15 minutes. If the sauce turns out to be very thick, you can add a little water.
Step 9:
When the sauce cools down a little and becomes warm, pour it into a saucepan and serve it to the meat.
It is better to transfer the remaining part of the lingonberry sauce to a glass sterilized jar, close the lid and store in the refrigerator or basement.
For a rich flavor, cinnamon and other spices (stars of cloves, star anise and others) are often added to the sauce, which gives the sauce unusual new notes.
This sauce is very popular in the Nordic countries. In addition to its taste qualities, it also has medicinal properties, which is very important for the cold Scandinavian climate.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Honey - 400 kcal/100g
- Lingonberries - 43 kcal/100g
- Liqueur wines - 212 kcal/100g
- Semi-dry wines - 78 kcal/100g
- Dry wines - 64 kcal/100g
- Red wine - 88 kcal/100g
- Oranges - 36 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g