Cherry in red wine

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. To make a dessert of cherries in red wine, we will need: fresh or frozen pitted cherries; red wine with a bright aroma; zest from half an orange; dry mixture for cherry jelly; sugar; cinnamon stick.

2. Step 2:

   

   If the cherry is frozen, it is not necessary to defrost it. If fresh, then wash, dry, remove the stems and bones. It is better to save the juice that has been released at the same time.

3. Step 3:

   

   Remove a thin layer of peel from the orange, trying not to grab the white part, otherwise the dessert will be bitter.

4. Step 4:

   

   Chop the orange peel with a knife as small as possible.

5. Step 5:

   

   In a saucepan, combine cherries (and juice from fresh cherries, if there is one), sugar, orange zest, powder for cherry jelly (you can take any other red jelly, for example, from black currant, but I wanted to emphasize the cherry flavor) and a stick of cinnamon.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour in the wine. You can use any wine - dry, sweet, semi-sweet. When choosing a sweet wine, it is better to reduce the amount of sugar to 1 tbsp. l., or even remove it altogether (because there is already sugar in the jelly mixture), otherwise the dessert will turn out to be sugary.

7. Step 7:

   

   Put a saucepan on the fire, bring the wine to a boil and cook over low heat, stirring, for 20-25 minutes.

9. Step 8:

   

   Remove the cinnamon stick. If you don't like the orange peel in the dessert, but it's better to take it out too when it gives its flavor to the wine. But in this case, it is better to add it in large pieces so that they can be easily caught. I left the zest in the dessert itself, so I immediately chopped it finely.

10. Step 9:

    

    Arrange the cherries in wine in glasses or cream cups and refrigerate for 1-2 hours until completely solidified.

11. Step 10:

    

    Decoration. To decorate the finished dessert, we will need: whipping cream (33-35% fat content); vanilla sugar.

12. Step 11:

    

    Beat cold cream together with vanilla sugar into a thick, stable foam. Put the cream in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes so that they cool down and keep their shape better.

13. Step 12:

    

    Put the whipped cream in a pastry bag. If you serve dessert right away, then you can immediately put whipped cream for dessert. If the dessert is served later, it is better to prepare whipped cream immediately before serving. You can use ready-made whipped cream from a can.

14. Step 13:

    

    Decorate the dessert with whipped cream before serving. Enjoy your meal!