Sauces with Dried Cherries

Does your meal seem a little boring? Is your rice a rather uninteresting dish? Do you want to add a little flavor to your meat? Does your bread appear to be a little typical, a little dull, a little unenticing? Don’t fret anymore. Dried cherries offer a variety of recipes which will surely spice up and add a twist on your plate.

Dried cherries are cherries which underwent the drying process, usually for the purpose of preserving the fruit for more future uses. Cherries may follow the sun-drying procedure (sun-dried cherries) or the dehydration process. The latter procedure is what most commercially sold dried cherries go through.

This type of cherry products can be applied to various menus and recipes. It can be used in making pies, cakes, salads, sauces, stuffing and lots more. Dried cherries give this sweet-tangy flavor that your palate loves. And if your meal is sort of unexciting and bland, dried cherries are a perfect ingredient to make it more appetizing.

One way to heat up your dish is by making a dried tart cherry sauce. A tart cherry’s taste is better than the other type, the sweet cherry, because the latter could be too sweet for a sauce. Dried tart cherry sauce can be a good complement to your meat, rice and even your bread.

How can you prepare such a sauce? It’s easy. One recipe of doing this would require you other ingredients like dried thyme, brandy (or balsamic vinegar), chicken stock, and clove garlic. All you have to do is mix them, boil in a saucepan, and then allow it to simmer. Strain it after it is already cooked. And then you can add chopped dried cherries. Sprinkle some salt and pepper and you’re now ready to serve. You can also make a cranberry sauce with dried cherries – just explore the internet, there are lots of recipes that you can find. It depends on your convenience as to what recipe to choose.

Some recipes allow you to sip your dried tart sauce straight from your bowl. While this is advisable, however, you are limiting the scope of what this sauce can do to your meal. To give you a hint about the extent and “diversity” of recipes you can arrive at using this ingredient, here is a short menu of dried cherry sauce meals.

Crostini. Crostini is an Italian food that is prepared by slicing a bread (most preferably a baguette or a white bread) very thinly, and then toasting it (or grilling sometimes) to make it crispy. Once you toasted (or grilled) your bread, you can apply a thin layer of cheese and then finish it off with your dried cherry sauce.

Pork Medallions. Obviously, you cannot cook a pork medallion using dried cherries. Pork medallions are made with pork tenderloin. However, dried cherry sauce could also be a good finishing touch as a coating. Pork Medallion with dried cherry sauce is best served with wine during Christmas or Thanksgiving Day with your loved ones.

Rice Pudding. Although rice is nutritious and energy-giving, it can be very boring and uninteresting to eat. One way to “liven it up” is by making it a rice pudding. A dried cherries sauce would be a very delicious topping for jasmine rice cooked with salt, cinnamon, milk, sugar, vanilla and almond extract.