Hello and welcome to in the kitchen with Matt.
I am your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make sugared
or candied cranberries.
This is another holiday dish.
It's a great snack to have around the holiday,
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
And I love fresh cranberries, and I love the sugared, kind,
really easy to do.
Simple ingredients only three ingredients.
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Let's get started down below.
In the description box, you'll find a list of the
ingredients and their amounts.
Begin with cranberries this 12 ounces or 340 grams
of cranberries, and then I have a cup of water and have a cup
of sugar here.
And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just start by
making a little bit of a simple syrup.
So I have a pot here.
I'm going to add in the sugar and water that's one cup
of sugar, one cup of water and now over to the stovetop.
We go in here on the stove top burner.
I have a heat set to medium and all we're going to do is we're
just going to heat this up.
And just until we dissolve that sugar, that's all we
want to do.
We don't need to bring this to a boil or anything.
We actually don't want it incredibly hot because we don't
want to split those cranberries.
We only want to coat the cranberries in the
simple syrup.
This will just take a couple of minutes to dissolve.
I'm actually going to switch over to the slotted spoon
because this will come in handy a little bit later, but just
kind of come in here and stir a little bit as the
water heats up.
All right.
And once it's all clear and the sugar has dissolved, we can
turn off this heat.
And now I'm going to take that syrup and I'm going to pour
this on here all over these cranberries.
Super easy, and we just want to get these all nice and coated
really well,
then I'm going to take it.
So this is why this slide to comes in handy.
Well, take it, let it drain and then put the lamb out on a
sheet pan with a wire rack.
This way, we can get these to dry.
And I just use the sheet pan, so it catches the drippings,
and what's going to happen is as these dry, the simple syrup
is going to get sticky on the outside of these cranberries.
And that's what the sugar is going to stick to.
Some people will even soak the cranberries in that
simple syrup overnight.
And you can certainly do that if you like.
So here we go, and now we're just going to let these dry for
about an hour and a half.
All right.
And then we'll do the next step once these have had a
chance to dry.
And we're going to kick a another ball and I have about a
cup of sugar in here as well.
And then I'm going to take these cranberries and we're
going to go in here with them.
And then what you can do also, if you have like a lid to
your bowl, we can put that on there.
Or you can also just put it in like a Ziploc bag of sugar and
berries and just shake them around, but have a nice
led to this.
I'm going to put that on there.
Yeah, and look at that.
Awesome.
I'm just going to come in here again.
But that's how you want them to look like that and how we want
them to dry again, somebody is going to put them back here
on this
wire rack.
And you could use less sugar.
You could get away with using like a half a cup of
sugar like you.
You'll notice it.
There's a lot of the sugar left and you could save this sugar
and use it for something else because it's kind of got like a
little cranberry hint of flavor to it.
And there we go.
We're going to let this sit here for another about an hour
and then they'll be ready to eat on to that step.
And once the sugar has had time to dry a little bit on
the outside, they are ready to go.
Super easy to do.
These sugar cranberries are awesome.
I'll give it a taste.
So good, the sugar on the outside kind of cuts through
the tightness of the cranberry and just makes it
an awesome snack.
If I can do it, you can do it.
I'm Matt Taylor.
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