What can you make from cherries? Read our cherry recipes
Summer is not only a time for vacations and picnics, but also an opportunity to treat yourself to fresh berries and stock up on vitamins. Cherries are one of the first to ripen - a healthy and tasty berry. Of course, the first thing you need to do is eat your fill of fresh berries. Well, then you can think - what to cook from cherries? Oddly enough, there are not so many recipes - mostly compotes are made from cherries and jam is made. But you can also bake pies - shortbread, jellied, chocolate, and prepare desserts. The selection of cherry dishes that we offer you will be useful not only in the summer season - both fresh and frozen cherries are used in baked goods and desserts.
Cherry recipes
Jellied pie with cherries
Ingredients for the dough: 1.5-2 cups of flour, 3 tbsp. l. milk and vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 egg, 100 gr. curd cheese, 10 gr. baking powder.
For filling: 3 eggs, 200 gr. cottage cheese or low-fat cottage cheese, 3 tbsp. l. sugar, 100 ml. heavy cream, 1 tbsp. l. semolina, a pinch of cinnamon.
For the filling: 1.5 - 2 cups pitted cherries.
How to cook. For the dough, grind the curd cheese with the egg and sugar. Pour in the milk and butter, stir and add 1.5 cups of flour mixed with baking powder. You should get a soft, tender dough. If it sticks to your hands, add more flour. Distribute the dough over the bottom and sides of the mold, place the cherries on it.
To fill with a mixer, mix all ingredients and pour over the pie. Place it in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 45-50 minutes. The middle may turn out to be runny - that's okay. The cake must cool completely and then it will acquire the desired density. It is better to cut it when it has cooled.
Cherry pie
Ingredients: 500 gr. cherries, 5 tbsp. l. flour (heaped), 2 eggs, 200 ml. low-fat kefir, 3 tbsp. l. sugar, a packet of baking powder, a pinch of salt.
How to cook. Remove the pits from the cherries and place the berries in a colander to drain excess juice. Beat eggs with sugar and salt, pour in kefir. Add flour and baking powder and immediately knead the dough. The consistency will be like pancake consistency, but don’t add any more flour. Place cherries in the dough, stir and pour into a greased pan. Place in the oven, bake for half an hour at 200 degrees.
Pie with cherries and sour cream
For the test you will need: 200 gr. margarine, sour cream and sugar, 2.5 cups of flour, 2 eggs, a pinch of soda.
For filling: 700-800 gr. cherries, 400 gr. sour cream, 1 tbsp. l. starch, sugar to taste.
How to cook. Mix margarine at room temperature with sugar and beat with a mixer into a fluffy mass. Mix flour with soda. Add eggs and sour cream to the butter cream, stir, gradually add flour. The dough will be soft and sticky, it is better to knead it with a spatula. Place on a baking sheet, moisten your hands with cold water and smooth out the dough, making sides. Place cherries on the dough (don't forget to remove the pits!) and pour sour cream on top. For the cream, beat sour cream with starch and sugar. The pie is baked for 40-45 minutes, temp. oven 180 degrees.
Curd cream with cherries
Ingredients: 500 gr. cottage cheese and cherries, 200 ml. cream or sour cream, 5 tbsp. l. powdered sugar.
How to cook. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve until it becomes homogeneous, without lumps. Add cherries. Separately, whip cream or sour cream with powdered sugar. Add 2/3 of sour cream to the curd mass and place in bowls. Decorate with remaining cream and berries. Place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours and serve the dessert chilled.
Clafoutis with cherries
Ingredients: 180 ml each. milk and heavy cream (30-35%), 2 eggs, 1 yolk, 100 gr. sugar, 50 gr. flour, pinch of salt, 400 gr. cherries.
How to cook. Mix the egg, yolk and flour into a homogeneous mass. Pour in milk and cream, add sugar and salt. Beat with a whisk. Grease the molds with oil, place the pitted cherries in them and fill them with the egg-cream mixture. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 30-35 minutes. The filling should “set” and brown along the edges. Let the clafoutis cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Sour cream jelly with cherries
Ingredients: 400 gr. not very fatty sour cream, 3 - 4 tbsp. l. sugar, 10 gr. gelatin, pitted cherries.
How to cook. Mix sour cream with sugar, beat lightly. Fill the gelatin with water according to the instructions on the package (be sure to follow it, different gelatin requires different amounts of liquid). Place the gelatin in a water bath and heat until it is completely dissolved. Pour into sour cream and stir. Place the cherries in the molds, fill them with cream and put them in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
In principle, you can make a wide variety of baked goods with cherries.– cupcakes, muffins, pies and pies, add to milkshakes and smoothies. It is used in baking just like cherries, you just need to adjust the amount of sugar - otherwise it will turn out very sweet. If possible, freeze the cherries for the winter. Then you will have pies all winter, and if you wish, you can prepare a vitamin cocktail or smoothie in five minutes.
And it seems like you have time to eat your fill, but still, with the onset of cold weather, you remember with longing about this juicy berry. In this article we will tell you what can be made from, the recipes will be simple and even a beginner can handle them.
Freezing
By properly freezing cherries, you can preserve for a long time all the vitamins and microelements contained in this delicious berry. First you need to decide in what form you will eat cherries in the winter - with or without seeds. With seeds it is perfect for compotes and other drinks, and without it - for filling pies or dumplings.
If you decide to freeze in its pure form, then the first thing you need to do is select high-quality fruits - damaged or overripe fruits are not suitable for storage in the freezer. The selected cherries are washed well, all stalks and leaves are removed. Before putting it in the freezer, it should dry well. Place the washed, dried berries on a wide dish, preferably so that the berries do not come into contact with each other. For freezing, 3-4 hours in the freezer is enough. After complete freezing, the berries can be packaged in a container convenient for you and placed in the freezer until cold weather sets in.
Important! In order for frozen berries to retain their aroma and taste for a long time, follow the rules for storing them in freezers: store in airtight packaging, store meat and fish products away from the berries, try not to re-freeze already defrosted products.
Another option for harvesting cherries for the winter includes recipes for freezing the berries in your own syrup. The preparation technology is somewhat more complicated than the previous recipe, but in this form you can pamper your household with delicious cherry drinks all winter. You need to prepare syrup from selected and washed berries. For 1 kg of berries, take 4 glasses of water and half a glass of sugar. Place the container with the ingredients on the fire and allow the cherries to blanch for 5-7 minutes. 
Drying
Dried cherries are not such a frequent guest on the table in winter, however, even in the form of dried fruits, they have a pleasant taste and contain a large amount of vitamins and microelements. The easiest way is to use an electric dryer. However, if you don't have one, don't despair. Using the oven, you can prepare dried cherries for the winter.
First of all, the berries need preliminary preparation - to speed up the drying process, they are doused with boiling water and the skin is lightly cut in several places. Next, they are placed in an electric dryer or oven. The temperature at which the process will take place should not exceed 70-75 °C. If you are drying in the oven, the door must be open. The drying time is 16-18 hours. It is very easy to check the readiness of the fruits - the finished drying has a burgundy, almost black color, does not release juice when pressed, and does not stick to your hands at all.
Did you know? The oldest preserved product was found by archaeologists in the Egyptian pyramids. It was a vessel made of clay, the lid of which was sealed with resin. Inside was canned duck meat in olive oil. The age of the found canned food is more than 3 thousand years.
It is very important to properly store cherries in the form of dried fruits - it is best to use glass jars in which the fruits are neatly placed in a tight row. The top needs to be covered with a lid with holes. Store jars of dried fruits in a cool and well-ventilated area. You should periodically inspect the workpieces for bugs and worms. If you find such cherry lovers, do not rush to throw it away. Reheating in the oven and microwave is sufficient. 
Conservation
Canning cherries for the winter is a great way to preserve a little bit of summer on a cold winter day. There are a huge number of recipes for cooking cherries, let's study the best of them. 
Jam
Cherry jam is one of the most popular winter delicacies. There are a huge number of ways to prepare it: with or without seeds. We will tell you an easy recipe for making delicious cherry jam with pits. Ingredients you will need:
- berries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1-1.2 kg;
- vanillin - a pinch.
Compote
Lovers of delicious drinks will love our recipe for cherry compote for the winter. To ensure there is enough compote for everyone, the proportions are calculated for three-liter jars:
- cherries - 5 glasses;
- sugar - 1.5-2 cups;
- water - 3 liters.
Important! If the technology for preparing your preparations involves sterilizing the jars in a large pan, then to prevent them from cracking during the cooking process, cover the bottom of the pan with a thick towel.
In its own juice
There are two options for recipes for canning cherries in their own juice - with and without preliminary sterilization. We'll tell you about both. Recipe in own juice with pre-sterilization (for a 1 liter jar):
- cherries - 700-800 g;
- sugar - 100-150 g;
- water - 500 ml.
- cherries - 2 cups;
- sugar - 1 glass;
- citric acid - 1 teaspoon.
Jam
The jam is perfect for filling pies and buns. We suggest you prepare jam according to the following recipe:
- berries - 2 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Jam
If your garden has had a large harvest of cherries this summer, we suggest you prepare the fruits in the form of jam for the winter. To prepare it you will need:
- cherries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 500 g;
- zest of half a lemon.
Rubbed with sugar
This is the simplest type of winter preparation - our recipe contains only berries and sugar as ingredients. The fruits are washed, the seeds and stalks are removed. The proportions for 500 ml of such “cold” jam are 2 cups of sugar and 2 cups of cherries. The preparation technology is very simple - berries and sugar are ground with a blender into a homogeneous mass. Pour the finished product into a convenient container and leave it in the refrigerator until winter.
Did you know? Wild cherries are used to produce natural dyes. Only the color it produces is not red, as one would expect, but green.
Dried
The technology for preparing dried cherries is in many ways similar to preparing dried cherries. But in this recipe, the berries will be dried in the fresh air, without the use of an electric dryer or oven. First of all, the cherries must be prepared - the selected berries must be thoroughly washed. It is best to use running water. Remove leaves, stems and seeds. The prepared berries are covered with sugar, the approximate proportions are 1 kg of sugar per 2 kg of cherries. The cherries with sugar should stand for a day in a cool place - this is done so that excess juice comes out and the berry itself is saturated with sweetness. 
The next step is to prepare the sugar syrup. Stir sugar in water (for 2 kg of cherries, the approximate amount of ingredients is 600 g of sugar and 600 ml of water) and put on fire. Our berries should boil in boiling syrup for 6-8 minutes. Be sure to let the fruits drain excess juice - this will significantly speed up the drying process, and then place them on a baking sheet or tray in one layer. In this form, you will need to leave the berries for several days, after 3-4 days, carefully turn each berry on the other side and let them dry for 7-10 days. Berries should be dried in a dry and well-ventilated place. This delicacy is stored in exactly the same way as dried cherries - in glass jars and in a cool place.
Pickled
Cherries, closed for the winter in pickled form, will definitely surprise your household with their original spicy taste. In this form, it perfectly emphasizes the taste of meat dishes, and is also an unusual appetizer for the holiday table. Preparing pickled cherries is very simple, now you will see for yourself. For convenience, the calculation of spices and marinade for the preparation is calculated for a jar with a volume of 500 to 700 ml, choose for yourself which one will be convenient for you:
- To prepare a mixture of spices: cloves, white pepper and allspice - 3 pcs each, bay leaf - 1 pc, currant or cherry leaves - 1 pc each, white grain mustard - 0.5 teaspoon;
- To prepare the marinade: boiled water - 1 l, table vinegar - 250 ml, sugar - 100 g.
Let's start by preparing the marinade for the preparations. Water, vinegar and sugar are mixed in a saucepan, which is placed on the stove. Until the marinade boils, stir it periodically. The cherries are placed in a jar and filled with a mixture of spices. Try to fill the jar tightly with berries, but make sure that they do not begin to choke or burst. Fill jars of berries with boiled marinade to the very top, the main thing is that each berry is immersed in the spicy water.
Many housewives advise pasteurizing the workpieces after closing. This process is recommended for berries and fruits that are characterized by high acidity. Pasteurization will take 15-20 additional minutes, but you will have peace of mind that your preserves will last until the end of winter or even longer. Take a large saucepan and place a jar of pickled cherries in the bottom. Fill with water almost to the lid and put on fire. After the water boils in the pan, let the jars “boil” for 15-20 minutes. Then carefully remove the pieces and place the lids down.
The rich cherry harvest is just asking to be put into jars. In addition to canning preserves, compote, jam, cherries in their own juice for the winter will be an excellent variety in this list. For such preparation, the cherries need to be scrupulously sorted so that there are no rotten berries. Even one thing can ruin the entire workpiece. Only ripe and fresh fruits are suitable for storage in their own juice. Sweet cherries are denser in structure than sour cherries; when exposed to hot temperatures, they will not lose their shape. Therefore, it does not need to be kept in cold water for a short time before canning, like cherries.
Cherries in their own juice, closed for the winter, are perfect as a filling for delicious pies or pies. For this purpose, it is advisable to preserve the berries without sugar. For preparation, take cherries of white, pink, red varieties, compact them to the top in jars and sterilize them in a saucepan for 10-15 minutes. Then they are sealed hermetically and sent for storage.
White cherries in their own juice with seeds
For the recipe for white cherries in their own juice for the winter, you will need liter jars. One such container will take approximately 700 grams of medium-sized cherries. You need to take sugar so that it occupies ¼ of the volume of the container (about 200 grams). This recipe includes the procedure for sterilizing jars with cherries inside.
Preparation:
- Sterilize your chosen liter glass container. One jar can be treated with hot steam using a kettle, but if you plan to close a large batch of fruits, then this procedure is better done in the oven or microwave.
- Add half a glass of sugar.
- Wash the cherries, get rid of spoiled ones, remove leaves and stems.
- Fill the jar to the top with berries. Pour boiling clean water over the shoulders of the cherry blank. There is no need to top up to the neck; during the sterilization process, the empty space will be filled by the released cherry juice.
- Place a clean towel on the bottom of the pan, add water and heat it slightly. Place the jars of cherries in a saucepan so that the warm water reaches the shoulders. Start sterilization, lasting 30 minutes.
- Carefully remove the provisions from the pan with tongs, screw on the lids tightly, turn over, and wrap until cool. The next day, return it to its normal position and put it in the pantry.
If, after sterilizing the jars of cherries, they have not released enough juice and there is empty space left to the brim, it needs to be filled with boiling water. Only after that can you seal them with lids.
Sweet cherries of pink and black varieties in their own juice with sterilization
Cherry preparations for the winter, the recipes for which are not particularly varied, but still require adherence to a certain order when canning them. For preparation you will need 700 grams of medium-sized cherries, which should fit in a liter jar or two half-liter jars. 100 grams of sugar will make the product not sweet enough, which will allow you to use the berries for baking in the future. The syrup will use 0.5 liters of water.
Too concentrated juice from berries requires dilution with boiled water in proportions that suit your taste.
Classic recipes for canning cherries can be varied by adding other berries or fruits. You can also add various spices to enhance the taste with certain notes. Delicious berry preparations to you!
A strange picture is observed in the summer months. One berry after another keeps up! Before the strawberries had time to leave, they were replaced by cherries, sweet cherries, raspberries, currants, cherries. And I want to prepare everything for the winter. Cherry... It seems like one of those berries that you can’t really imagine using in preparations. Just to eat, that's all. But it was not there.
From this delicious berry there are such gorgeous compotes, jam, berries in their own juice, which go great as a filling for dumplings and pies, drunken cherries, jellies, and so on. Judging by the list of compliments we give to cherries, they have a lot of advantages. It's not just sweet and juicy! No one is ever allergic to it, it contains a sea of vitamins .
It just so happens that these berries do not grow all over Russia, in the south, but here and there in the center. But even if they grow, they are very productive! If you can only take the fruits from the market, do not spare money! After all, in winter you will get a simply wonderful product that will brighten up the gloom of long evenings.
Cooking cherry compote for the winter
Here everything is as it usually happens, only even simpler. Since cherries themselves are very sweet, they don’t require much sugar. But, despite the fact that cherries do not have a special zest, like, say, cherries, the compote turns out delicious. Especially from light varieties, which also look more presentable in compote, because they almost do not lose their pinkish color. So, let's wash the berries without turning off the water. We take them so that they take up half the bottle or jar. Let's wash the cherries well and remove all the debris.
Step 1. Sort and wash the cherries thoroughly
Let's tear off all the tails. But let’s leave the seeds, otherwise we won’t get compote, but mush. Now let's solve the sugar issue. We put 4 tablespoons per liter jar, although everyone does it to their own taste. To add a little sourness, you can add other berries, or add a little lemon juice. Then we scald with boiling water (or you can traditionally sterilize it by steaming) the jars into which the compote will be poured, and the screw-on lids with which we will roll it up.
Step 2. Sterilize the jars
Let's put water on gas. Pour sugar into it and, when it all boils, pour it into the jar where the berries are already located. Don’t rush to close it, as you can do with cherries (as you remember, even without sugar, but sterilized, they will last all winter)! Here you need to sterilize the jars by covering them with lids and placing them in a pan of hot water. Let's bring it to a boil, and from the beginning of boiling, sterilize the liter jar for about 15 minutes. This will be especially true if you add a little, say, red wine to the syrup! For even greater expressiveness, you can add vanilla, lemon balm, a couple of leaves or mint.
Step 3. Making compote
Sweet cherries in their own juice - step-by-step preparation with photos
No, you heard right. I understand your confusion, but I want to assure you that it’s a great thing. This can be used as a preparation for drinks, for various fillings, and as a separate food. Here it is important to maintain the proportion of sugar and something that would make the taste even brighter. Gooseberries and red currants would be good here - literally add a fourth of the jar. So, we need to wash the berries and sort them thoroughly, tearing off the tails and removing rotten specimens.
Step 1. Tear off the tails and wash
Then we’ll fill the sorted cherries with sugar (how much to put it in? Depends on whether you’ll add something sour or whether you like sweets. I put 2.5 cups of sugar per kilogram of berries, with a little lemon dripping in) and let them stand. But don’t hold on too long, the cherry tree is a tender young lady, and as soon as a midge flies over her. So, the berry releases juice very quickly and a lot, it literally floats in it, like in a compote.
Step 2. Add sugar to release juice
Let's take advantage of the moment and send it all away. As soon as the berries boil, turn off the heat as much as possible - now the process of releasing the juice and sugaring is important. We cook for a long time, but not like jam. As soon as it thickens a little and changes color to that pleasant shade that you see in the photo, you can close it in jars! It will all taste like honey, only with a cherry tint.
Step 3. Boil over low heat and roll into jars
Making a delicious cherry filling
Yes, when I open a jar with such filling in winter, I get upset - well, why did I close so little? After all, with such cherries (you can specially remove the pits) the most gorgeous pies are baked, the most delicious pies and cakes are made! What about dumplings? What about pasta filled with cherry filling? In short, there is no counting of everything that can be obtained from cherries using this type of preservation. Here we put a little more sugar. That is, 500 grams per kilogram. The process is almost the same as in the case of cherries in their own juice, but we will cook longer.
Step 1. Add more sugar and cook longer
Cook the cherries over low heat, but do not cover with a lid! Otherwise it will turn out to be pure porridge. Meanwhile, the berry filling for the pies should turn out amber. Yes, so that it does not fall apart, but the pickle remains, although very thick, like syrup. That is, we don’t get tired of looking into the cauldron and thoroughly, but carefully, mixing the berries. There she is, a berry, beautiful and delicious! When hot, seal in sterilized jars and leave upside down to cool.
Step 2. The filling for the pies is ready
How to make delicious cherry jam for the winter?
What a delicious and original amber-colored jam you can make from cherries! You can only compare it with honey, as I wrote above! There are several options for preparing it - in its pure form, with other berries. I will give two recipes, but in each of them you need to perform the same procedures - wash the cherries, clean them of debris and tails, you can also remove the seeds (but this is more suitable for jelly). Here I put 700 grams of sugar per kilogram of berries. I poured it over the cherries and immediately put it on the fire. Has the juice gone? Boil for 10 minutes, stirring well. Let it cool, then boil again for 10 minutes. You can add a little cardamom or other spices. In a word, the syrup should not flow down the nail so that it resembles honey. Close while hot in sterile jars.
The second recipe I tried is prepared in the same way as the previous one, but here I added some strawberries left over from the strawberry jam. That is, I cooked fresh strawberries with cherries, but the process took longer - I wanted something that would turn out like confiture.
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