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Easy and delicious Homemade Cranberry Jam. This simple cranberry jam is made with only 4 ingredients and makes a perfect addition to many breakfast dishes.

Homemade Cranberry Jam. This simple cranberry jam is made with only 4 ingredients and makes a perfect addition to many breakfast dishes. #cranberry #jam #breakfast

Cranberry Jam

Cranberries are such a wonderful fruit with many health benefits. I love the tart and sweet flavor of cranberries when they’re baked in desserts and baked goods.

There is always a bag of cranberries in my fridge in the winter and when I make sure to freeze some for the off-season. During the winter months, I like to make some simple cranberry jam for breakfast. This is a delicious and easy seasonal jam.

Cranberries are not only delicious, they are also very healthy and considered superfood. Cranberries are full of vitamin C, fiber, antioxidants, and vitamin K. Cranberries outrank almost every fruit and vegetable  when it comes to antioxidants.

So for breakfast, substitute store-bought strawberry jam for this vitamin packed cranberry jam!

Homemade Cranberry Jam. This simple cranberry jam is made with only 4 ingredients and makes a perfect addition to many breakfast dishes. #cranberry #jam #breakfast

What else can be added to the cranberry jam:

To change up the flavor a little, try using a pear instead of apple.

During holiday time, I like to spice up this cranberry jam with cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. The aroma and flavor is just perfect to put everyone in Christmas mood.

Add some orange zest and squeeze a little orange juice for additional flavor.

Homemade Cranberry Jam. This simple cranberry jam is made with only 4 ingredients and makes a perfect addition to many breakfast dishes. #cranberry #jam #breakfast

How to serve cranberry jam:

Serve this cranberry jam on toast, bagels, muffins, fresh baked sweet bread.

Add some to oatmeal.

Cranberry jam can also be added to fudge, cookies, cheesecake, and sweet creamy dips.

Homemade Cranberry Jam. This simple cranberry jam is made with only 4 ingredients and makes a perfect addition to many breakfast dishes. #cranberry #jam #breakfast

Some more cranberry ideas:

Apple Cranberry Pie

Christmas Cheesecake

Cranberry Pecan Biscotti

Cranberry Salsa

Cranberry Bliss Bars

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Homemade Cranberry Jam

This simple cranberry jam is made with only 4 ingredients and makes a perfect addition to many breakfast dishes.

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cranberry, jam
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 8 (16 oz jar)
Calories 135 kcal
Author Lyuba Brooke

Ingredients

  • 1 lb fresh cranberries
  • 1 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 large apple peeled, cored, diced
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients in a medium saucepan, mix, and bring to a simmer over medium heat.

  2. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover with a lid, and simmer, stirring frequently, for about an hour. Keep covered while simmering, leaving only a little crack for the steam to escape. Stir from time to time.

  3. Transfer into a blender and puree until smooth.

  4. Let cool completely and transfer to a medium jar. Once completely cooled, close with a lid tight and refrigerate.

  5. Without canning process, this jam will last about 6 weeks in the refrigerator. 

Recipe Notes

All images and text ©Lyubov Brooke for ©Will Cook For Smiles. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If using my posts in collections and features, please link back to this post for the recipe. Disclaimer: Nutrition information shown is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as most ingredients and brands have a slight variation.

Nutrition Facts
Homemade Cranberry Jam
Amount Per Serving
Calories 135
% Daily Value*
Sodium 1mg 0%
Potassium 72mg 2%
Total Carbohydrates 35g 12%
Dietary Fiber 3g 12%
Sugars 29g
Vitamin A 0.9%
Vitamin C 11.3%
Calcium 0.6%
Iron 0.9%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Homemade Cranberry Jam. This simple cranberry jam is made with only 4 ingredients and makes a perfect addition to many breakfast dishes. #cranberry #jam #breakfast

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  7. Hi, Thanks for the recipe. I’d like to try it but I don’t think I quite understand something. If you put chunky fruit in a pot and simmer it for an hour, then pour it into jars to cool, does it disintegrate into jam-form? Is there no blending or food-processing going on here? I don’t see how it could look the consistency of smooth jam with no blending involved. Thanks!

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  20. Did you add any water anywhere during the process? I might have overcooked mine because it was incredibly thick. When I put it in the blender, it wouldn’t do anything with it. The taste was great but I think I’ll add a little water or juice the next time I try it. Thanks for the idea!

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  21. We make this all the time. Except we add orange juice or frozen orange concentrate instead of the apple and lemon juice. We use this as a topping for pancakes or (my favorite) to teas.

    I’ll give you variation a try next time we make it. 🙂

    Margaret @ Live Like No One Else

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  22. Hello! I am anxious to try your recipe this Fall. I am new to jam making and am wondering how this should be stored. (Pantry? Fridge?) And how long of a shelf life does it have? Thank you.

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    • Hi Amanda. I would recommend storing it in the fridge. Since we are not canning it and sealing it, it will have air coming it and should be refrigerated. I don’t know the exact shelf life but I would estimate 4-5 weeks based on personal experience. (That’s how fast it was gone not when it went bad.)

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  23. Try this wonderful condiment on much more than toast! It may sound strange but try some peanut butter and this jam on your next bacon cheeseburger–a small bite of heaven.

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  24. I don’t think it is the Holiday season until you hear your first cranberry pop. Thank you for your wonderful jam recipe and I will use it with your white fudge recipe.

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  25. WOW!! I followed the recipe exactly. I did throw the end result in the Magic Bullet…Amazingly different from the over sweet berry jams. This is sweet and tart, balanced just right. I had the jam with multigrain bagels this morning… Yummmmm!!! Thanks for the great (and painless) recipe, will do it again!! 🙂

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    • It might be a personal preference. When I made the jam, it wasn’t very bitter at all. There was some tartness but the sweetness was much stronger.

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  27. Oh my goodness ….. I am in love with cranberries and can’t wait to make this … I am assuming that you could seal like other jams and jellies ?? Thanks for sharing….. I came via Trendy Tree House a share party ?

    Happy Holidays…..into the New Year…

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    • Hi Jill, welcome! You can definitely can it if you know how 🙂 It’s been so many years since last time I canned anything (I used to with my grandmother) so I can’t quite remember how.
      Happy New Year to you as well!

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  29. I AM SO DELIGHTED TO SEE A RECIPE FOR CRANBERRY JAM . I HAVENT FOUND THAT RECIPE ANYWHERES !! I AM NOT SO SURE I CAN MAKE IT , BUT WISH ME LUCK !! BY THE WAY GREAT RECIPES AND A REALLY NICE FOOD BLOG ! YOU ARE SUCH A GREAT COOK !!

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  30. I finally found the recipe using fresh cranberries on your website!!
    Thank you very much for the wonderful recipe 🙂
    I have a question, can I use lime juice instead?

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    • Oh no, Libby, I’m sorry you don’t get fresh cranberries. I’m also sorry to tell you that it won’t work with craisins. You’d need juice and “meat” from the berries for the jam. I’m sorry 🙁 I hope that may be you’d be able to find some fresh cranberries sometime!

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      • Why couldn’t she used dried cranberries? All she would have to do is rehydrate them, I believe that 3/4 cup of dried cranberries is equivalent to 1 cup of fresh cranberries. Craisens are dried cranberries where the juice was extracted for juice. then sweetened. So if she were to use 3/4 cup of craisens and a 1/4 cup of cranberry juice she would be ok. She might have to adjust the sugar a bit as I believe they do add some sugar to craisens
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  33. Do you not add any liquid other that that little bit of lemon juice? I would think the betries would scorch if they were dry in the pan and needing to reach a boil.

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