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Drescription
This easy homemade cherry pie filling can be used for any recipe calling for canned cherries. Use sweet or tart, or make a blend!
Ingredients
- 4 cups fresh sweet cherries , pitted
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse kosher salt* , optional
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch , dissolved in 2 tablespoons water to create a slurry
- 1 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract
Directions
- Prepare your cherries by washing and removing the stems and pits. The simplest way to do this is to use a cherry pitter, but you can also use a metal straw.
- how to pit a cherry
- Add the cherries, lemon juice, sugar, water and salt into a medium saucepan and heat over medium-high heat stirring occasionally until boiling and the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Reduce heat to low and add in cornstarch slurry and mix until well combined and the mixture starts to thicken. About 2-3 minutes.
- cherry pie filling in a saucepan
- Remove from heat and whisk in almond extract and set aside to cool for 10 minutes.
- Use after cooling or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to use.
