Sour Cherry Marmalade Recipe!

on September 28, 2022

Turkish Sour Cherry Marmalade

How to Make Home Made Sour Cherry Marmalade (Vişne Marmelati)!

Breakfast is a very important meal in the day and it is a fundamental part of the culture for many of us. It is a fact that breakfast has something to do with happiness, and happy breakfast have something to do with a good jam or marmalade. Do you agree with us?

On the other hand, our all winter preparations are ready and our breakfast tables will be so colorful in this winter. Because, during the summer, we have made many different jams and marmalades. One of them is sour cherry marmalade and we made it in July. We also love raw sour cherries alot. Sour cherries are round, soft and small. They are best when are sweetened and cooked and are usually available for a period of 2 or 3 weeks in June and July, here in Turkey. You don't have to wait for the exceptional short season of sour cherries to make your favorite desserts or just to taste these extraordinary fruits! Our sour cherries are so delicious in look and flavor that you right away start think of recipes for pies, tarts, crumbles or just a cup of sour cherry compote topped with ice cream, cinnamon or vanilla sugar. We call this tasty fruit in Turkish = "Vişne" (it is pronounced = Vi - sh - ne).

Sour Cherries are round, soft and small.
They are best when are sweetened and cooked

Can you find sour cherry fruit in your local markets? And have you ever made sour cherry jam or sour cherry marmalade in your kitchen?

In this post, we are going to share our "Sour Cherry Marmalade's (Vişne Marmelati) Recipe" with you. Don't be afraid. "Who is going to dig up al those sour cherry Kernels?" Dont ask me. And today, there are devices that extract the seeds of fruits in a practical way. We are sure that, when you try this delicious marmalade in your kitchen. Your household and you like it alot.

Healthy Fruit Marmalades: Sour Cherry Marmalade

How to Make Sour Cherry Marmalade!

Homemade sour cherry marmalade (Vişne Marmelatı) is really a perfect option for the breakfast tables. Recipe of sour cherry marmalade is not complicated and recipe is really so easy and ingredients are so simple. You just need fresh sour cherries, granulated sugar, lemon juice or lemon salt or both and vanilla. That's it! You can also find homemade sour cherry marmalade in online Turkish markets very easy.

Bye the way, there are couple of tricks about the preparing of sour chery marmelade. When boiling, remove the foam on the surface of the pot with the tip of a wooden spoon or a normal spoon and clean it. In this recipe, We didn’t use butter and we got foam but we generally use 1/2 teaspoon butter for decreasing the foam. Also, in this recipe, we used both lemon salt and lemon juice. Because, especially lemon salt makes your marmalade/jam shiny and by the help of lemon salt, you can save your marmalade or jam for a long time in your pantry. But it is optional, if you want, you can use only lemon juice. Did you use vanilla in preparation of marmalades. We often use it.

Recipe for Sour Cherry Marmalade!

Nowadays, plant based food growing like weeds. Like us, If you like marmalades and jams in your breakfast tables alot, we suggest that you try the sour chery marmalade, beacuse its taste is perfect and you can use it in all kinds of cakes and cookies. It is also a hundred percent plant dominant food.

Here it is our yummy sour cherry Marmalade's recipe;

Serve: 2 Half pint jars, Preparation Time: 15 or 20 minutes, Cooking Time: 50 or 60 minutes, Cuisine: Mediterranean/Anatolian Cuisine,

Very good family favourite;

Ingredients : 1 kg fresh sour cherry,

Ingredients : 2,5 Cups of sugar - nearly 500 gr -

Ingredients : 1/2 Piece of fresh squeezed lemon juice,

Ingredients : 1/4 teaspoon of lemon salt,

Ingredients : 1 teaspoon of vanilla, ( nearly 10 gr ),

Firstly wash your all sour cherries well,

Then remove the seeds: a toothpick : dip the toothpick
in the middle of the stems and carefully rotate
it around the core and lift it up,

Or remove the seeds with the help of special apparatus,
even you can make this process by an ordinary knife,

Then layer pitted sour cherries and sugar
in a saucepan overnight

Your sour cherries release their juice
until morning, if not, add water when cooking,

The following day place the sour cherries in a medium
size pot and then start cooking mixture of sour cherries
and sugar on medium heat until the sugar dissolves,

Cook the sour cherry mixture for about 50 minutes,
then take your blender and blend them
until they become puree,

If it foams while boiling, remove it with a spoon,

Then add fresh lemon juice and stir,

Then add lemon salt and stir,

Then add vanilla and stir the mixture for a little while
- nearly 8-10 mins - Then turn the heat off,

Now sour cherry marmalade is ready. Put it in a clean
glass jar and close the lid while it is warm. Then close the lid
and let it cool. Store it in a dark and cool place,

You can also use sour cherry marmalade
in all kinds of cakes and cookies,

Ingredients:

1 Kg Fresh sour cherry, pitted, (Normaly; 1 kg sour cherries equals to nearly 650 gr pitted sour cherry),
2,5 Cups - 500 gr - Granulated sugar, (it depends on your taste, if you want, you can add sugar more than the 500 gr),
1/2 Piece of fresh squeezed lemon juice,
1/4 Teaspoon of lemon salt, (couple of pieces of lemon salt),
1 Teaspoon of vanilla, (nearly 10 gr),

Preparation:

First of all, put your all ingredients on the work surface. Secondly, wash your sour cherries and remove their seeds (A toothpick: dip the toothpick in the middle of the stems and carefully rotate it around the core and lift it up, or remove the seeds of the stems individually with the help of a special apparatus, such as cherry pitted. Even you can make this process by an ordinary knife).
Then, layer pitted sour cherries and sugar in a saucepan overnight (your sour cherries release their juice until morning, if not, add water when cooking).
The following day (morning) place the sour cherries in a medium size pot and then start cooking mixture of sour cherries and sugar on medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves - melts - (if mixture needs water, add a glass of water and stir). Cook the sour cherry mixture, stirring continuously to avoid boil-overs, for about 50 minutes until the your sour cherries has completely fallen apart. If it foams while boiling, remove it with a spoon. Then take your blender and blend them until they become puree.
Then add lemon juice, lemon salt and vanilla and stir the mixture for a little while (nearly 8-10 minutes) and then turn the heat off.
Your sour cherry marmalade is ready, if you do not want to consume it immediately and want to store it for the winter months, put it in a clean glass jar and close the lid while your marmalade is warm. Then close the lid and let it cool. And then, store in a dark and cool place or store in the refrigerator.

Enjoy!

Please let us know how this "Sour Cherry Marmalade (Vişne Marmelati) Recipe" turns out for you in the comments. We are always so eager to hear from you.