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Sour cherry sauce with red wine and cinnamon

A thick, sweet-tart sour cherry sauce simmered with red wine, sugar, and cinnamon, then thickened with starch. Serves 4 with roast meat.

Translated from Slovak ·

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time
5 min
Cook time
15 min
Total time
20 min
Servings
4 servings
Difficulty
Easy
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Sour cherry sauce is a sweet-tart sauce for roast meat: simmer sour cherries with red wine, sugar, and cinnamon, then thicken with a little starch. It pairs well with duck, pork tenderloin, and game. You can use fresh or frozen sour cherries.

Ingredients

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Instructions

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  1. Simmer the cherries

    10 min

    Bring the cherries, wine, sugar, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 8–10 minutes, until the cherries soften.

  2. Thicken the sauce

    3 min

    Mix the starch with the cold water, pour into the sauce, and simmer, stirring constantly, for 1–2 minutes, until thickened and translucent.

  3. Adjust the sweetness

    Taste the sauce and add sugar depending on the tartness of the cherries. Serve warm with roast meat.

Tip: Adjust the sweetness only after thickening the sauce, as the tartness of sour cherries varies from year to year. For a smoother sauce, puree half the cherries.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy
122 kcal
Protein
1.0 g
Carbohydrates
24 g
of which sugars
18 g
Fat
0.3 g
of which saturates
0.1 g
Fiber
1.7 g
Salt
0.5 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Višňová omáčka k mäsu s červeným vínom a škoricou

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