Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cherry spoon sweet. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cherry spoon sweet is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cherry spoon sweet is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Sour cherry spoon sweet (aka vyssino glyko tou Koutaliou—in Greek: βύσσινο γλυκό του κουταλιού, pronounced VEE-see-no ghlee-KOH too koo-tal-YOO) is one of the Greek favorites, and it can be served along with a glass of water, with a cup of Greek coffee or spooned over Greek yogurt or vanilla ice cream. Speaking of summer, there is something I associate with Greece that Jane and I made. It's one of Greece's most popular spoon sweets, Sour Cherries (Γλυκο Βυσσινο).
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cherry spoon sweet using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cherry spoon sweet:
- Make ready 2 kg cherries
- Take 2 kg sugar
- Make ready 1 cup blanched almonds
- Get juice of one lemon
- Take 1 sprig rose geranium
Serve as a topping for dark chocolate ice cream and be amazed! Authentic, traditional, locally sourced Greek recipes and nutritional advice. They can be made from almost any fruit, though sour and bitter fruits are especially prized. There are also spoon sweets produced without fruit.
Instructions to make Cherry spoon sweet:
- Pit the cherries using a cherry pitter. It would be best if you do that over the pot that you are going to make the spoon sweet in so that all the juices don't go to waste but instead contribute to the sweet.
- Place alternating layers of cherries and sugar in the pot.
- Set the pot aside covered for 5 hours.
- Place the pot over strong heat and as soon as it boils for a couple of minutes add the blanched almonds and the rose geranium.
- The sweet will start to foam. You don't skim off the foam, instead you just stir. The foam will subside in a while.
- Count 7 minutes from the moment it starts boiling, stirring constantly.
- When the 7 minutes have passed, turn off the heat, add the lemon juice and allow the spoon sweet to cool on the stove.
- When it cools, store in sterilized jars.
Sour cherry spoon sweet is an excellent accompaniment to all types of poultry, and the syrup is used to make a favorite summer beverage, Vyssinatha. Quince and sour cherry spoon sweets are also delightful served with cheese (feta and manouri, especially). When I went to the farmers' market a few weeks ago and found some cheap cherries, I could not resist buying some to make some cherry preserve, which in Greece we call a spoon sweet. Vyssino, or sour cherry spoon sweet, is one of the best-loved Greek fruit preserves, made in mid June, when sour cherries are in season. It's a painstaking sweet to prepare.
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