I'm allergic to tomatoes, so when I need ketchup I use cranberries or beets. Most often I put canned pickled beets in the food processor and add spices like coriander and allspice and maybe others. A sprinkle of garlic powder too. If I were using canned cranberry sauce I'd also add apple cider vinegar.

use cranberry sauce with whole cranberries, mayo, then add IF you desire, garlic, balsamic vinegary whatever. I just like the mayo.

I don’t have a TNT using canned sauce. Depending on your preference for sweet or somewhat savory, you could heat the canned sauce with some chopped apple, spice (ginger, cinnamon or cloves) and a little oj or zest. For more savory, add some chopped onion/shallot and a little vinegar (apple cider or balsamic) with a touch of one of the spices. I might even be tempted to add a touch of horseradish. Just a touch so there’s some zip but not enough to know it’s horseradish…unless you’d want that.

An original ketchup that was from old English and early American culinary history is mushroom ketchup. i do believe that it was the original version.

Check out 'townsends" early american cooking on Youtube for how it was originally made, He has wonderful historical cooking videos!

Ketchup, as we know it, basically delivers a bit of fruit, sweet, vinegar and mild spice. For the small amount that one might apply to a burger, it seems that there would be any number of substitutions that could be used instead.

It doesnt have to be red.

I do not have one either but the first thing I thought of was a cranberry chutney. It'd give the sandwich more flavor. Mmmm now I want a turkey sandwich.

Not cranberry but I top turkey burgers with Major Grey's Chutney.

Eld, pretty low brow here but I always have Ocean Spray whole berry sauce on hand - I have a brother in law who eats it on everything. I often keep a can for him in the refrigerator so its cold on opening. If I were making turkey burgers I would likely let it warm up to room temp, serve as is if I've seasoned the ground turkey. Ocean Spray because they are local and its familiar - there maybe are other brands of similar quality.

I've tried it with a bit of horseradish and squeeze of lemon and he's fine with that for sandwiches. If I've done nothing but open the can, he's fine with that too.

I use ground turkey in place of ground beef almost of the time, now. I prefer it to beef, which we buy very little of anymore. It doesn't seem anything like turkey that you would have at the traditional thanksgiving meal that you associate the cranberry sauce with.

Burgers or patties made from it can get very dry because the poultry doesnt have much fat in it.

I prefer to make what I call "loose meat burgers", where the meat gets chunked into smaller pieces and gets browned in a skillet with an adequate amount of oil and laid into a nice bun and dressed just as you would any burger.

It always needs some oil added to the mix if you are going to make patties or meat loaf or meat balls. I really prefer it to beef, anymore.

We just lost our taste for beef, even the local grass fed beef no longer seems appealing.

Ground poultry stands in for it quite well.

Morz8, yes Ocean Spray. We like the whole berries now rather than the jellied.

I wound up using a recipe I found.

It included the cranberry sauce, mayo, dijon mustard and a small amount of orange juce.

It okay, but I would be do it again.

Claudia, I used the Trader Joe’s frozen. We were diligent in nor over cooking it on the grill.

It was moist.