Yummy Sour Cherry Sauce

There are about a hundred bajillion ways to cook chicken; roasted chicken, BBQ chicken, grilled chicken, steamed chicken, fried chicken, baked chicken, boiled chicken, stuffed chicken ... the list just goes on and on and on. The trick is to keep it interesting; quite the trick indeed.

When I was pregnant I ate a lot of frozen fruit. Berries, grapes, cherries. I wouldn't thaw it because I was also craving ice, so I'd just suck on the frozen berries. My Mom gave me a big freezer bag of frozen sour cherries that I never made it through. Maybe because there were so many of them, maybe because they were super sour. Super, super sour.

So for today's dinner I made a lovely sour cherry sauce to dress the chicken.

• About 2 big cups Sour Cherries, pits removed
• 1/8 cup Brown Sugar
• 2-3 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
• 1 Tbsp Cornstarch, optional

In a small pot, heat the cherries on medium heat. When they start to get soft, mash 'em up with a fork. You can remove the skins if you want, but I didn't.

Add your brown sugar and vinegar and stir.

Adjust to taste as you like.

If you want a thicker sauce, add the cornstarch. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Then reduce the heat.

Allow to simmer for a while. Like any sauce, the more time it has to bond, the better. 

I found that the sauce was still a bit sour, but the brown sugar took the edge off. The balsamic vinegar gave it just a touch of zang and it was really quite nice; especially with all the little chunks of cherry that I left in.

For our dinner, I cut the chicken into strips and steamed them in my wonderful bamboo steamer; best $14 I ever spent. Once they were done, I plated with pan fried (homemade) gnocchi--I'll put up a post for those soon--and some steamed veggies. We drizzled the sauce over the chicken.

The result? Yummy! 

I plan on putting some of the leftover sauce in my oatmeal tomorrow morning. Oatmeal is so boring by itself. It needs a buddy, and I think that this will work well. I guess we'll see.

That's my taste on it.

Also, I just realized how boring my plates are. I really should do something about that.