Low Carb Jellied Cranberry Sauce from TooSweet

[Doug Varrieur]

Jellied Sugar Free Cranberry Sauce
 
  •1 ½ cup fresh cranberries or ½ 12 oz. package.   (*15 net carbs.)  •1 cup water
  •¾ cup xylitol
  •2 boxes of sugar free orange Jello
  •1 ½ cups of boiling water to dissolve Jello in.
  •1 small or ½ cup of plain mashed zucchini          (*1.5 net)
  •A pinch of all spice (I didn’t measure so if you must maybe 1/8th-1/4th tsp.)       (about *.5 for both spices)  •A pinch of cloves (again I didn’t measure so if you must maybe 1/8th-1/4th tsp.)

Rinse cranberries well and put in small sauce pan with the one cup of water.  Simmer for about 10 minutes to cook down.  Berries will start to burst.  Add xylitol, spices and zucchini (if using fresh just peel and slice otherwise add the mashed and continue to simmer for 15 more minutes to reduce.  Make sure you are stirring and watching that it doesn’t scorch.  Process mixture in blender or food processor and set aside.  Heat the remaining water to boil and dissolve Jello.  Mix all together and poor unto Jello molds or do like I did and clean a couple of empty cans to make it look more authentic…LOL   Let set up in the refrigerator until firm.  I think overnight would be best if you can wait that long. When ready to serve run knife around can and turn upside down.  Jelly should slide out whole. Slice and enjoy!!

This mixture filled 2 cans (I cleaned two 15oz. green bean cans) Only 17 net carbs for the whole recipe. Grin Grin

I know it sounds weird to put zucchini in this but it helps to give it some low carb bulk without having to add to many berries and you really don’t know it’s there.  I also wish I could have found some sugar free cranberry Jello but I’m not sure they make that any more.  Undecided With doing a web search I came up with nothing.  The orange is a nice flavor with it anyway.  This is really pretty good and without opening a can of the real thing to refresh my memory I believe it comes darn close…LOL  Cool Cool

[umpa]

This was our Thanksgiving contest winner .Great job TooSweet!

[shawn116]

   Thank you guys for the wonderful book!!!  Love it    Happy Holidays everyone!!

[Rena]

Sounds great -- and congrats, Too Sweet!

I'm making the whole berry kind tomorrow night to eat with our Christmas Eve dinner. I'll have to give this recipe a try sometime, as my family all likes the jellied, but I prefer whole berries.

[MommaB]

I made this and had it for CHRISTmas dinner and it was delicious!!! Thank you soooo much for sharing this!! I got to have cranberry sauce like everyone else in the family!! 

[shawn116]

Thanks I'm glad you liked it 

I made some more for Christmas as well but I had run out of xylitol    The only thing open was our local grocery so I had to use Truvia instead.     It wasn't bad but it kinda had that sugar free after taste      In my opinion the xylitol is definitely the way to go with this recipe 

[mouseissue]

I ran out of xylitol too!... All the holiday treats really demand a lot of it!

I've got a 15 pound bag of Now brand on order.

[umpa]

I buy the 15 pound bag too Tony.

[SherriPie]

How many drops of the fat to skinny sweetener would I use instead of the xylitol?

[umpa]

its on the bottle sherripie same as sugar

[Andrea]

36 drops, Sherri.  48 drops are the equivalent of 1 cup so 3/4 cup is 36 drops.

[umpa]

Good morning Andrea

[Andrea]

Good morning, Umpa. 

[mdanziger]

This sounds great.  I was going to skip the cranberry sauce this year, but I will add this instead.  We are only going to be the four of us for Thanksgiving, but with all the great recipes I am finding here, and in the books, I am going to make enough FTS friendly food that we will be eating well for a week.

[shawn116]

For fun Mark empty a can and let this set up in it.  It really makes it look authentic  LOL