In summer, when a lot of fruits and berries, you need to use them as fresh as possible, because it is an excellent source of vitamins and trace elements. But you can also make beautiful workpieces from them. Some of them are suitable as an addition to sweet dishes, and the latter can be used as a sauce for meat . Now we will tell you how to prepare a pickled cherry.
Pickled cherries
Ingredients:
- ripe cherries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 100 g;
- dessert red wine - 200 ml;
- vanilla - 2 pods;
- a peel of one orange;
- cinnamon - 1 stick;
- cloves (bud) - 1 piece;
- fresh mint leaves - 4 pcs .;
- nutmeg - to taste;
- water 250 ml.
Preparation
Vanilla pods cut in half along. We scrape the seeds into a saucepan, pour water in there, put the pods, crushed orange peel and other spices with sugar. We bring all this to a boil over a small fire. Then we make the fire minimal and cook for 10 minutes under the lid. Then let's brew for another 10 minutes. We remove the bones from the cherry, put the berries in a syrup, bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes on a small fire. Then remove the sauté pan from the fire and pour in the wine. Let the cherry cool and send it to the cold for about 6 hours. We serve it in a chilled form with syrup.
How to make a pickled cherry?
Ingredients:
- cherry - 1 kg;
- water - 500 ml;
- vinegar - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 1/4 tsp.
- buds of a carnation - 2 pieces;
- cherry leaf - 1 pc .;
- cinnamon - 3 g;
- horseradish root - 5 g;
- Ground coriander - 0,5 tsp.
- mustard seeds - 0,5 tsp.
- vodka - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
In the water we breed salt, sugar and vinegar. The solution is boiled, and then it is cooled to about room temperature, we pour into the resulting marinade vodka. Cherries my, we remove the bones. We put berries in a jar, shaking, so that they are packed, but they are not crumpled. Add the spices and pour it all with the prepared marinade. We close the jar and send it to the cold to marinate for 5 hours.
Cherry marinated in its own juice
Ingredients:
- water - 500 ml;
- cherry juice - 500 ml;
- sugar - 700 g;
- table vinegar - 2/3 cup;
- buds of a carnation;
- cinnamon sticks;
- allspice;
- cherry.
Preparation
We fill the jars with washed berries. We prepare marinade: heat water, dissolve sugar in it, add cherry juice , bring to a boil, pour vinegar. On the liter bank will go 5 buds of cloves, a piece of cinnamon and 7 pieces of sweet pepper. Fill berries with a hot marinade and sterilize liter jars 7 minutes, and then roll.