Holiday Cranberry-Pomegranate Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (12 ounce) bag fresh cranberries, rinsed and sorted
1 cup white sugar
1 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon orange zest
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
1 pomegranate, peeled and seeds separated

Preparation

Mix the cranberries, sugar, orange juice, orange zest, ground cloves, and cinnamon sticks together in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Lower heat to medium, and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and cool.
Stir the pomegranate seeds into the cranberry mixture, and refrigerate at least 8 hours or overnight. Remove the cinnamon sticks before serving.