Cherry Mustard Recipes

CHERRY MUSTARD

Steps:

• In a heavy bottomed pot, cook down cherries and honey over medium heat for approximately 20 minutes. Place cherries, honey, and natural cooking juices into a blender and blend until smooth. Pass blended cherries through a fine mesh strainer directly into a mixing bowl (or combine both those steps using a food mill.) Add a pinch of salt, and start adding mustard, a little at a time until desired taste and consistency in achieved. You might not use all the 3/4's cup, but have enough on hand to adjust as needed.

CHERRY PEPPER-HONEY MUSTARD

Steps:

• Mix together the yellow mustard, honey, cherry pepper relish, Dijon, Worcestershire, granulated garlic and salt and pepper to taste in a small bowl.

PORK CHOPS WITH CHERRY MUSTARD SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Lightly season pork chops with salt and pepper, then, two to four at a time, depending on the size of your skillet, brown well on each side, removing to warm oven.
• Deglaze the skillet with the wine, scraping up brown bits, reduce heat to medium and stir in the mustard, then add the cherries.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• When the sauce begins to bubble, add all the pork chops back into the skillet, spooning sauce over them to coat, cover and reduce heat to medium low.
• Cook over medium low about 5 minutes, then rearrange chops so those on the bottom are now on the top, and spoon sauce over.
• Cover and cook an additional 5 minutes or more, until chops are cooked through, but still very slightly pink inside (test by prying into the thickest part of one chop with a knife point).
• Remove chops to serving platter or individual plates.
• Melt butter (optional) into remaining sauce in skillet, heat and spoon over chops.