Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipe Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

• 2 cups fresh cranberries
  

• 2 T date paste or 2 medjool dates
  
• ¼ cup water
  
• Juice of 1 orange + 1 tsp zest
  
• Fresh ginger (approximately ½” knob), chopped finely
  
• 1 cinnamon stick or ¼ tsp ground
  
• 1 pear, diced small (1 cup)
  
• ½ jalapeño pepper, finely minced (optional)