Cherry sauce is ideal not only for dumplings and pancakes, but also for meat. To prepare such a dressing is not at all more complicated than the one for the creation of which fresh tomatoes or tomato paste are used. Moreover, cherry sauce makes beef, pork and poultry dinner much more juicy and tasty.
Most often, such berry filling is done in the ripening season of cherries. But if you freeze the product, then you can use it in the winter season.
Cherry meat sauce: recipe
In fact, in the preparation of such a sauce there is nothing complicated. But to make it really very tasty, you should strictly follow all the prescription requirements. However, let's talk about everything in order.
What ingredients will we need to make a thick and rich cherry sauce? The recipe (you can see the photo below) requires the use of:
- fresh pitted cherries - about 250 g;
- large white sugar - 1 large spoon;
- potato starch - 1 large spoon;
- drinking water - 2 large spoons;
- greens (parsley or cilantro) - about 20 g;
- any brandy (can be replaced with vodka or liquor) - 2 dessert spoons;
- ground pepper and iodized salt - apply to your taste.
Preparation of components for cherry sauce
How to make cherry sauce for meat? The recipe for this dressing requires careful processing of berries. They are washed, and then all the bones are squeezed out and laid out in a pan. After adding sugar to the cherry, it is put on the stove and stewed for about 7-9 minutes. Over time, the berry is removed from the stove and carefully crushed with a nibbler or an ordinary fork.
Fresh greens are also washed separately and ground with a sharp knife. As for potato starch, it is diluted with drinking water, and then a little cognac is added to it.
Cooking process
After the main components are prepared, starch water with cognac is poured into the stewed cherry, and chopped greens, iodized salt and ground pepper are added. All ingredients are mixed well and brought to a boil.
After extinguishing the berry for about one minute, it is removed from the stove and cooled. Ready cherry sauce is served to the table along with boiled or fried meat. Making a side dish for such a dish is not recommended.
Making spicy bird sauce
About how to cook sweet cherry sauce, we described above. However, some chefs prefer to do this dressing a little differently. Spicy spices are added to it, resulting in a very delicious piquant sauce, which is ideal for poultry.
So, to implement the presented recipe, we need:
- pitted frozen cherries - about 200 g;
- garlic cloves - 3-4 pcs.;
- hot chili pepper - ½ pod;
- salt, not very small - 1 dessert spoon;
- light sugar - not more than 1 large spoon;
- soy sauce - 1 dessert spoon;
- dried basil - 1 dessert spoon.
We process the ingredients
To make cherry sauce for duck, thawed seedless berries are placed in a blender bowl and then crushed to a smoothie condition. By the way, you can use a fresh product to prepare such a dressing. However, it should be pre-washed, dried and squeezed all the bones.
Cooking method
Having transformed the berry into a homogeneous gruel, it is laid out in a deep saucepan and brought to a boil. In this form, cherries are boiled in their own juice for about 10 minutes (over low heat). At this time, begin to process the garlic. It is peeled and rubbed. Chili pepper is also processed separately. It is freed from seeds and cut into rings.
By the way, the amount of garlic can be reduced or increased at will (depending on how spicy sauce you want to get).
After the cherries are stewed in their own juice, chopped garlic and hot pepper are added to it. Next, soy sauce is poured into the same pan, table salt and light sugar are added. By the way, the amount of the last ingredient can also vary depending on your personal taste.
At the very end, dried basil is added to the cherry sauce, a photo of which is presented in this article. In this composition, berry dressing is cooked for another 20 minutes over low heat. In this case, the sauce is periodically stirred so that it does not burn, but it turns out thick and tasty.
How and with what to present to the table?
Now you know how to make cherry sauce. After it is cooked, it is poured into a sterile jar, which is closed with a lid. In this form, the sauce is cooled, and then cleaned in the refrigerator, where it is stored for no more than one month.
Chilled spicy dressing is served with poultry (duck, chicken, goose, etc.). By the way, some cooks who like to experiment, present such a sauce to vegetable side dishes. But this is a matter of taste for everyone.
Making meat dressing with wine
How else can you make cherry sauce? The recipe for such an unusual dressing may involve the use of different components. To prepare a more aromatic and rich sauce, we need:
- shallots - a small bunch;
- fresh pitted cherries - 2 glasses;
- olive oil - about 35 ml;
- semi-sweet red wine - 3/4 cup;
- orange zest - 1 large spoon;
- orange juice - 2 large spoons;
- coarse sugar - 2 large spoons;
- table salt, dried thyme, ground pepper - use to your liking.
Sequencing
There is nothing complicated in making such a sauce. Fresh shallots are thoroughly washed and chopped with a sharp knife. After that, put it in a pan and fry in olive oil until golden. Then, canned seedless cherries are added to the greens.
After quenching the ingredients, red semisweet wine is poured into them , and orange zest, juice and a small pinch of salt are added.
After boiling the mixture in half, it is removed from the stove and allowed to cool completely. After that, a large piece of fried or boiled meat is poured with thick cherry sauce, and then it is served at the table with a fork and a knife.
Cooking Syrup Cherry Sauce
Quite often, cooks use fresh or frozen berries to prepare cherry sauce for meat . However, in this recipe we decided to use a canned product in syrup. Using such cherries, homemade sauce will have a pleasant acidity and an unrivaled aroma.
So, to make berry dressing we need:
- unflavored olive oil - about 2 large spoons;
- red onion - 1 medium;
- lemon zest, grated on a small grater - 1 dessert spoon;
- dried thyme - 2 branches;
- dry red wine - 1/3 cup;
- low-fat chicken broth - 1/2 cup;
- cherry in syrup - about 400 g;
- balsamic vinegar - 2 dessert spoons;
- high fat butter - about 30 g.
Step cooking
To make a fragrant sauce of canned cherries, finely chopped red onions are first fried in a small saucepan, and then pour lemon zest and dried thyme. In this composition, the ingredients are cooked for about 5 minutes (until the vegetable has a golden color).
After heat treatment of the components, dry red wine is added to them and cooked on low heat for about 2 minutes. Following the alcoholic drink, low-fat chicken broth, cherry syrup and balsamic vinegar are poured into the stewpan.
All ingredients are brought to a boil, and then the heat is reduced and the sauce is boiled for 3-4 minutes. Next, add cherries to the products and continue to stew the sauce for another 5-8 minutes.
As soon as the meat dressing thickens and acquires a rich red color, it is removed from the stove. Having added a piece of fresh butter to the sauce, they mix it well, cover it and leave to cool for several hours.
Over time, cherry dressing is used for its intended purpose. A piece of fried or boiled bird is poured with it, and then presented to the table with a slice of bread. If you wish, you can separately prepare a potato or some other vegetable side dish for such a dinner.