Cherries: Recipes that taste like summer
Cherries? Pure summer!
Finally cherry season! Whether sweet cherries or sour cherries? We love all varieties of cherry and just can not get enough of the plump, red fruits in summer. We are looking forward to cherry cake, cherry jam, cherry juice and of course the fresh fruits, which we enjoy in all variations. Because: The cherry is much more versatile than you might think.
It can be sweet, but it can also be hearty as gazpacho or spicy pesto. She can be pure, but she can also cook. It invites you to simply pick them fresh from the tree, but also to bake and boil. With the taste of cherries, we combine our best childhood memories, thinking of homemade ripe fruit earrings, which also taste really delicious, of fresh juice and spots on summer dresses that Mama said we would never get out of. Cherries are just pure summer!
The delicious classic: Kirschkuchen
The cherry cake is of course the classic recipes with cherry. We love this cherry cake with crumbs and lavender, in which the wonderful aroma of sour cherry comes out wonderfully. But that's just one of many great ideas for delicious cake with cherries. Here are more recipes for cherry cake. There is certainly something for every taste. Cake fans will not be able to resist the cherry chocolate meringue cake.
Hearty recipe creations with cherries
But the cherry can be very different. For example, sweet cherries can be used to prepare a hearty dish with baked goat's cheese, in which the aromatic cheese from the oven meets the fresh sweetness of the cherries. That means holidays on the palate! Recipe: Baked goat's cheese with cherries
Also exceptional is the spicy cherry pesto, which goes very well with grilled fish or meat. Here are the cherries with coarsely chopped tomatoes, port and water in the pot, where they are boiled and then mixed with pine nuts, cheese and garlic. So fast and yet so delicious! The recipe: spicy cherry pesto.
A third savory variant is the cherry gazpacho, a cold soup topped by an aromatic celery-basil blend. The recipe: cherry gazpacho
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That cherries are healthy is because a whole series of vitamins (vitamins A, B1, B2, C and niacin) and trace elements in the little balls and their high content of iron and folic acid has a positive effect on the blood.
Sweet or sour - cherries are quite delicate. Therefore, they should be handled carefully and consumed quickly. To ensure that juice and aroma are not lost, they are preferably washed and pitted shortly before they are processed. As a cake topping you usually have to thicken the cherries beforehand. In addition, you can freeze cherries, so you still have some of the fruits in winter. Here you will learn how to core cherries.
