Our cherry sauce recipe makes use of simply three components and no starches, making it gluten free and maintaining it mild, recent and fruity. You’ll wish to pour this scrumptious sauce over all of your favorite desserts!
This cherry sauce is fruity, easy and candy with a slight tang. It’s good on breakfast pancakes, cherry pie, cheesecake, chocolate brownies, ice cream, layered in a chocolate cake…the listing is limitless.
It’s such a fast and simple dessert sauce and tastes heavenly, it could possibly actually amp up your desserts!
The truth is it is a good recipe to avoid wasting for once you’ve simply been cherry choosing or have an additional quantity of cherries. Cherry sauce freezes very well so make a batch or two to all the time have some readily available to jazz up a dessert or two.
Our recipe is gluten free because it makes use of the pectin within the lemon juice to thicken the sauce so no starches are wanted. This additionally means it’s mild and there’s nothing to masks these scrumptious recent fruity flavours!
This sauce is made in very a lot the identical means as my strawberry coulis on this website, and pairs effectively with this superb cheesecake recipe.
This cherry sauce will be preserved for extended storage whereas maintaining the identical scrumptious flavour, try our recommendations on canning sauces.
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Elements
Our cherry sauce so easy to make and solely requires three components. There’s no want so as to add any water because the cherries prepare dinner in their very own juice.
- candy cherries – use recent or frozen. Bitter cherries would require extra sugar.
- white sugar – modify this in keeping with style.
- lemon juice – lemon is wealthy in pectin and this may assist thicken the sauce with none want for corn or potato starch.
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Pitting cherries
Wash and pat dry the cherries and use a cherry pitter to take away the stones.
In the event you don’t have a cherry pitter, slice the cherries in half and use a knife to chop across the stone, then gently it pry away.
Or try this video over at Wholesome Nibbles on the best way to pit cherries with no cherry pitter. I haven’t tried this methodology however it appears to be like enjoyable!
Variations
Why not tweak the recipe in keeping with the season? Add any of those whereas the sauce is simmering earlier than mixing. Alter the quantities in keeping with style:
- summer time – add some grated coconut or somewhat recent orange juice for additional freshness.
- winter – stir in a crushed clove, a small piece of ginger and a pinch of cinnamon for some seasonal spice.
For a chunkier texture skip mixing the sauce earlier than serving, though the sauce could have a richer flavour if blended.
The right way to serve it
This cherry sauce will go superbly with most of your favorite desserts. Serve it with:
Candy dishes: waffles, pancakes, cherry pie, cheesecake, chocolate brownies, ice cream, in between layers of a chocolate cake, with ricotta/yogurt, over a chocolate pie, or make cherry popsicles.
Savory: Cherry sauce additionally goes effectively with lamb dishes comparable to these kebabs, roast rooster and beef comparable to roasts, steaks and burgers.
What would you serve it with? Let me know within the feedback beneath!
Make forward and storing
Cherry sauce will be ready upfront. Set it apart to chill then switch to a sealed container and chill for as much as 3 days.
The sauce will thicken barely when chilled, so chances are you’ll wish to combine with a tiny little bit of water earlier than serving.
Benefit from cherry season over the summer time and put together a big batch to freeze.
Freeze in ice dice trays, then prove and retailer the frozen cubes in labelled freezer luggage for as much as 3 months.
Thaw in a coated container within the fridge in a single day or on the counter.
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Cherry Sauce
This cherry sauce recipe makes use of simply three components and no starches, making it gluten free and maintaining it mild, recent and fruity. You may wish to pour this scrumptious sauce over all of your favorite desserts!
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Notes
Cherries
You should utilize recent or frozen cherries. Use a pitter to take away cherry stones.
Variations
- for the summer time – add some grated coconut or somewhat recent orange juice for additional freshness.
- for the winter – stir in a crushed clove, a small piece of ginger and a pinch of cinnamon for some seasonal spice.
For a chunkier texture skip mixing the sauce earlier than serving.
Make forward/storing
To organize upfront: set it apart to chill then switch to a sealed container and chill for as much as 3 days. It’ll thicken barely when chilled, so combine with a tiny little bit of water earlier than utilizing.
Freeze in ice dice trays, then tun out and retailer the frozen cubes in labelled freezer luggage for as much as 3 months. Thaw in a coated container within the fridge in a single day or on the counter.
MEASUREMENT NOTES
The components right here on EOTF are set out in grams & milliliters and in US cups & spoons.
Diet
Energy: 76kcalCarbohydrates: 20gProtein: 0.5gFats: 0.1gSaturated Fats: 0.02gPolyunsaturated Fats: 0.02gMonounsaturated Fats: 0.02gSodium: 0.1mgPotassium: 99mgFiber: 1gSugar: 18gVitamin A: 28IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 6mgIron: 0.2mg
