Cherry sauce for the winter: for meat, for dessert, for duck, for turkey

Cherry sauce for the winter is a preparation that can be used both as a spicy gravy for meat and fish, and as a topping for desserts and ice cream. By using different ingredients, you can change the tasting qualities of the product, adjusting it to your taste preferences.

How to prepare cherry sauce for the winter

Cherry sauce is often referred to as a gourmet alternative to ketchup. It is versatile as it not only goes well with beef, turkey and other meats, but also goes well with white fish and desserts. The sourness in the sauce helps to neutralize the excess fat content of a dish, such as roast pork. At the same time, successfully playing with the recipe, you can get a new original taste.

Choosing the right base ingredients is essential. For the sauce, it is better to take sour cherries. This will give the taste more expressiveness. Sugar or honey can be added to balance the flavor.

The berries are sorted out in advance, then rinsed well, while removing the stalk. If necessary, remove the bone, pre-select the type of thickener. In this capacity, corn starch, food gum and flour can act.

Depending on what consistency is needed, the cherries are ground or cut into small pieces. The latter option is most often used when preparing cherry sauce for desserts.

You can enrich the taste of berry gravy with additives. Alcohol, dry spices, aromatic herbs, spices and fruit juice are introduced into the sauce. The recipe for meat allows the use of soy sauce, as well as cilantro, celery, chili, and various types of peppers.

The cherry sauce should be rolled up in sterilized jars and stored in a cool place.

Classic universal cherry sauce for meat

Cherry notes in the sauce perfectly set off the taste of any meat, giving the dish a spicy tasting flavor.

You should prepare:

• cherries (fresh) - 1 kg;
• corn starch - 20 g;
• balsamic vinegar - 150 ml;
• salt - 15 g;
• sugar - 150 g;
• spice.

Cherry sauce can decorate a dish and add a sweet and sour flavor to meat.

Step by step cooking:

1. Rinse the berries, remove the seeds and put everything in a saucepan.
2. Add salt, sugar and spices and bring everything to a boil.
3. Reduce heat, simmer for another 4-5 minutes, then add vinegar.
4. Cook for another half hour.
5. Dilute the cornstarch with a little water, mix well and add gently to the sauce.
6. Cook for an additional 2-3 minutes, then let the resulting product brew slightly (3-4 minutes).
7. Arrange in sterilized jars, cool and store in the cellar.

If desired, you can beat the cherries with a hand blender before adding the starch.

Duck Cherry Sauce Recipe

The duck version has a special piquant taste, which is obtained thanks to the combination of vanilla and cloves.

You should prepare:

• cherry - 750 g;
• table red wine - 300 ml;
• water - 300 ml;
• sugar - 60 g;
• vanillin - 5 g;
• flour - 40 g;
• cloves - 2 pcs.

While cooking the sauce, you can add herbs: basil, thyme

Step by step cooking:

1. Pour wine into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
2. Add sugar, vanillin, cloves and simmer for another 5 minutes.
3. Send berries to the pan.
4. Mix flour and water, get rid of lumps.
5. Add mixture to boiling sauce and cook until thickened.
6. Gently arrange in sterilized jars and roll up the lids.

Dry herbs such as basil and thyme can be added during the cooking process.

Turkey Cherry Sauce Recipe

This cherry and spice meat sauce recipe can be used in preparation for any important holiday. It goes well with turkey, white fish and can be an alternative to the famous narsharab (pomegranate sauce).

Recipe goes well with turkey and white fish

You should prepare:

• frozen cherries - 900 g;
• apples - 9 pcs.;
• oregano (dry) - 25 g;
• spices (coriander, cinnamon, ground black pepper) - 2 g each;
• salt - 15 g;
• sugar - 30 g;
• rosemary (dry) - to taste.

Steps:

1. Peel the apples, cut into wedges and put in a deep saucepan.
2. Add some water and put on fire. Simmer until softened, then beat with an immersion blender into a homogeneous puree (you can use the finished product).
3. Defrost cherries at room temperature.
4. Fold the berries and puree into a saucepan, add 50 ml of water and heat well for 5-7 minutes.
5. Add spices, salt, sugar and rosemary to the cherry-apple mixture and simmer for another 5 minutes.
6. Remove from heat and blend with a hand blender.
7. Return the sauce to the stove and simmer for another 5 minutes.
8. Spread hot in sterilized jars and roll up the lids.

Putting a part of the sauce (20-30 g) in a small container, and after waiting until it cools down, you can evaluate the thickness of the resulting fruit and berry gravy. If necessary, you can return the saucepan to the stove and reheat by diluting with water. Or, conversely, evaporate the excess liquid by simmering the sauce over low heat.

Winter cherry sauce with garlic

Garlic gives the cherry sauce an extraordinary pungency and makes it indispensable when served with baked beef. You can enhance the taste of the composition with a small portion of chili.

You should prepare:

• cherry - 4 kg;
• sugar - 400 g;
• garlic - 300 g;
• red chili pepper - 1 pc.;
• soy sauce - 70 ml;
• dill (dried) - 20 g;
• seasoning "Khmeli-suneli" - 12 g.

Garlic makes the sauce spicy and can be served with beef

Steps:

1. Sort the berries, rinse, remove the stalk and bone.
2. Grind the cherries in a blender until smooth.
3. Put the mixture in a saucepan and cook for 20-25 minutes over medium heat.
4. Send peeled garlic and pepper to a blender, mix everything into a gruel.
5. Add sugar, soy sauce, dill, suneli hops and garlic mixture to the broth.
6. Darken over low heat for another half hour and carefully arrange in sterilized jars.

Frozen cherry sauce

Frozen cherries can be purchased at almost any store, regardless of the season. The zealous housewives often freeze the berries themselves, having previously removed all the seeds.

You should prepare:

• frozen cherries - 1 kg;
• corn starch - 50 g;
• lemon juice - 50 ml;
• honey - 50 g;
• water - 300 ml.

The photo recipe for cherry sauce for meat is as follows:

1. Put berries and honey in a saucepan, pour everything with water and bring to a boil.
   
2. Dissolve cornstarch in 40 ml of water and send it to a saucepan. Cook while stirring until thick.
   
3. Remove from heat, add lemon juice, stir and serve with steak.
   

You can store this sauce in the refrigerator for 2 weeks.

Cherry Gelatin Sauce Recipe

Gelatin is a natural thickener of natural origin, which is most often used in the preparation of aspic from meat, fish, fruit jelly and marmalades.

You should prepare:

• cherry - 900 g;
• sugar - 60 g;
• instant gelatin - 12 g;
• cloves - 3 pcs.;
• cognac - 40 ml.

Gelatin is used in sauce as a natural thickener

Step by step cooking:

1. Sort the berries, wash, remove the stalks and put in a saucepan with a thick bottom.
2. Add 50 ml of water and simmer over medium heat for 15-20 minutes.
3. Add sugar, cloves, bring to a boil and keep on low heat for 3-5 minutes.
4. Dissolve gelatin in water.
5. Send gelatin and cognac to the pan with the composition.
6. Mix everything well and cook for 1 minute.

The sauce is poured into sterilized jars or, after it has cooled down, is sent to the refrigerator for storage (no more than 15 days).

Cherries can just as well be replaced with plums. If serving to children is planned, then alcohol is removed from the recipe.

Cinnamon and Wine Cherry Sauce Recipe

The combination of cinnamon and cherry is typical for baked goods and desserts. However, if you introduce such a spice as hops-suneli, then the sauce will be an excellent addition to meat and vegetable garnishes.

You should prepare:

• berries - 1.2 kg;
• water - 100 ml;
• sugar - 80 g;
• salt - 8 g;
• table red wine - 150 ml;
• olive oil - 40 ml;
• hops-suneli - 15 g;
• cinnamon - 7 g;
• hot pepper (ground) - 8 g;
• corn starch - 20 g;
• parsley or cilantro - 50 g.

You can use not only wine, but also cherry or berry liqueur, as well as cognac

Steps:

1. Sort the berries, wash, separate the seeds and, using a blender, grind in mashed potatoes.
2. Place the mixture in a thick walled cast iron skillet and bring to a boil.
3. Set low heat, add oil, salt, sugar, suneli hops, cinnamon and hot pepper.
4. Chop greens and send them to the pan.
5. Add wine and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
6. Dissolve starch in 100 ml of water and send it to the cherry gravy in a thin stream.
7. Bring to a boil, simmer for 1 minute and remove from heat.

Instead of wine, you can use cherry or berry liqueur, or cognac, but in smaller quantities.

Sweet cherry sauce for the winter with pancakes and pancakes

Sweet cherry topping can be served not only with ice cream, pancakes or pancakes, but also with curd casserole, cheese cakes or dumplings.

You should prepare:

• cherry - 750 g;
• corn starch - 40 g;
• sugar - 120 g;
• water - 80 ml;
• cognac or liqueur (optional) - 50 ml.

Sweet topping can be served with pancakes or pancakes, or spread on bread

Steps:

1. Put clean berries in a saucepan and cover with sugar.
2. Put on fire, simmer for 10 minutes, stirring gently with a wooden spatula.
3. Dilute starch in 80 ml of water.
4. Kill the berries in mashed potatoes with an immersion blender, pour in the starch and brandy in a thin stream.
5. Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer for another 2 minutes.
6. Pour into prepared sterilized containers and seal.

Topping can be used to coat cakes and decorate cakes.

How to make Provencal Herb Cherry Sauce

To prepare this sauce, it is more advisable to buy a mixture of Provencal herbs in the store. However, gourmets can separately purchase rosemary, thyme, sage, basil, oregano and marjoram.

You should prepare:

• cherry - 1 kg;
• a mixture of Provencal herbs - 50 g;
• corn starch - 10 g;
• hot pepper (ground) - to taste;
• wine vinegar (red) - 80 ml;
• salt - 15 g;
• honey - 50 g;
• fresh thyme - 40 g

Rosemary, thyme and sage can be added

Steps:

1. Fold the washed berries into a saucepan.
2. Add spices, honey and herbs.
3. Bring to a boil and simmer for another 30 minutes.
4. Dissolve the starch in 50 ml of water and add it to the mixture in a thin stream.
5. Pour in wine vinegar.
6. Simmer for another 2 minutes and remove from heat.
7. Chop fresh thyme and add to the cherry sauce.

Cherry sauce is served with beef, tilapia or jasmine rice.

Storage rules

You can store blanks of cherry sauce for the winter in the basement, if the house is private, or in an apartment. In the latter case, storage can be organized in the closet, on the mezzanine or in the "cold cabinet" under the window in the kitchen.True, such designs are provided only in old houses.

In modern apartments, there are often vestibules that fence off part of the staircase. There you can also store vegetable or fruit and berry preparations.

An excellent storage place is the loggia. On it, using the simplest shelves and partitions, you can construct a whole section for conservation. The main condition is the absence of direct sunlight, therefore, part of the window adjacent to the storage department is darkened. Also, do not forget about the temperature and humidity in the room. In this regard, the balcony must be regularly ventilated.

Conclusion

Cherry sauce for the winter is an original universal seasoning that allows you to enrich the taste of a hot dish or sweet dessert. Most of the recipes are simple and accessible to beginners. If you make preparations from your own harvest, then they will cost quite inexpensively.

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