Luxardo cherries are the perfect cocktail cherry garnish for many cocktails. But luxardo maraschino cherries are not readily available in my area so I made a homemade recipe so I can enjoy and serve them at home.
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Other recipes call for sour cherries, and they can be used but sour cherries are not always available in my grocery store. So in this recipe, I use dried cherries in place of fresh or frozen cherries. They are easily found in the grocery store and they make an amazing luxardo cocktail cherry.
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🍒 Homemade Luxardo Cherry Ingredients:
- Sweetened, dried cherries
- Luxardo Brand cherry liqueur
- Sugar
- Cherry Juice
🥣 How to make homemade luxardo cherries:
- Make a simple syrup with sugar and cherry juice.
- Add the dried cherries.
- Portion the soaked cherries into jars.
- Add leftover cherry syrup and top each jar with luxardo.
- Sous vide for 1 hour for the fastest results.
- If sous vide is not available, chill in the refrigerator for 2 weeks.
The syrup for these cherries is made with cherry juice and double the portion of sugar. The extra sugar will make a thicker syrup and the cherry juice will infuse more of a sour cherry flavor into the dried cherries.
I did try this recipe with frozen cherries but I found that they became more watery and not as concentrated with the intense cherry flavor in comparison to the dried cherries. These cherries would be great served on top of sous vide cheesecake.
Sous Vide Instructions:
- Prepare the cherry simple syrup.
- Soak the dried cherries.
- Fill the jars.
- Top the jars with 50/50 cherry syrup and Luxardo.
- Close the jars and cook for 1 hour in a sous vide bath.
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Luxardo Cherries Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 pound Sweetened (dried cherries)
- 2 cups Sugar
- 1 cup Cherry Juice
- 1 cup Luxardo Brand cherry liqueur (as needed)
Instructions
- In a sauce pan make a simple syrup with the sugar and cherry juice.2 cups Sugar, 1 cup Cherry Juice
- Add the dried cherries and allow the cherries to soak up the syrup.1 pound Sweetened
- Allow the cherries to cool.
- Portion the soaked cherries into jars.
- Top each jar with luxardo and leftover cherry syrup in a 50/50 ratio.1 cup Luxardo Brand cherry liqueur
- If sous vide is not available, chill in the refrigerator for 2 weeks.
Notes
To sous vide the cherries:
Cook the cherries in a 160 water bath for 1 hour. This will speed up the marinating process. Cherries are ready to eat when the hour is up.Nutrition
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carla wibel
Can you can this recipe and store them in the pantry?
Samm
Won’t the Luxardo liqueur dilute the cherry syrup when it is poured into the jars of cherries? I’m looking to duplicate the thick syrup on the jared Luxardo cherries you can buy in stores, but do it myself.
Thank you