Sun-dried cherries – recipe
Cherries have already been canned, but there are still so many of them left. We offer to cook a sweet and sour, but tasty delicacy – dried cherries.
Sun-dried cherries taste like they do and are also a great filling for various desserts.
To make dried cherries as tasty as possible, you need to use freshly picked cherries. Frozen ones will not work.
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Sun-dried cherries – ingredients
Cherry – 500 g
Sugar – 125 g
Water – 150 ml
Sun-dried cherries – cooking
Wash the cherries and separate from the seeds.
Pour water into a saucepan, add sugar and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
Put half a serving of cherries in the syrup and cook from the moment of boiling for 7-8 minutes. Next, remove the cherries boiled in syrup with a slotted spoon on a strainer. Repeat this procedure with the second half of the cherry.
Watch the video recipe: Cherries in their own juice.
When all the syrup from the cherries has drained and it has cooled down a little, spread it on a plate or baking sheet, each cherry separately.
It remains to dry the cherries. You can dry in a fruit dryer, oven (140 degrees 6 hours, 30 minutes to open the oven) or in the air. Drying time depends on temperature and humidity.
Sun-dried cherries should be slightly firmer than raisins.
From 500 grams of fresh cherries, about 70 g of dried cherries were obtained.
Sun-dried cherries – storage
Dried fruits are best stored in specially sewn cloth bags so that there is always access to air. You can also store in jars, covering them with gauze. In this form, dried cherries can be stored for 6 months. Before use, cherries should be soakedin a small amount of water. Thanks to the liquid, the berry will swell well.
