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Spicy Cranberry Sauce

By Claire Saffitz

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Bright red cranberry sauce in a white serving bowl on plywood.
Photo by Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott, Prop Styling by Kalen Kaminski, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich

Jalapeño and lime give this year's cranberry sauce the zesty-spicy kick it deserves. Removing the seeds from one of the chiles lessens the punch. If you like more heat, leave them in. If less, scrape out seeds from both chiles.

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