Cherry pie filling is easy to make with this fast recipe. You can use fresh or frozen cherries. Using frozen cherries means you don't have to wait for cherry season; you can make it all year.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cherry pie filling, cherry pie filling recipe, filling for cherry pie, recipe for cherry pie filling
Prep Time 2 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Servings 2cups
Ingredients
4cupscherriesfresh, pitted or frozen drained
⅔cupssugar
¼cuparrowroot powder or cornstarch
¼teaspoonsea salt
1 ½cupswater
2tablespoonslemon juice
1teaspoonlemon zest
Instructions
In a large saucepan, combine cherries, water, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
Bring cherry mixture to a boil.
Lower heat and cook an additional 6 - 8 minutes, until cherries soften.
Add in the sugar, arrowroot powder (or cornstarch), and salt. Stir.
Cook for 2 minutes. Stir continuously until it is thickened.
If using cherry pie filling to make a cherry pie (or other dessert), you can transfer the warm mixture into the pie crust to bake. Otherwise, cool before storing in airtight container in the refrigerator.
Notes
If the cherry pie filling is too runny, drain some liquid. Or you can add cornstarch or arrowroot powder a half teaspoon at a time.