Name: Fresh Cherry Salsa with Goat Cheese
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 2 cups fresh cherries, (pitted and roughly chopped); 1/4 cup red onion, (finely chopped); 1/4 cup cilantro, (finely chopped); 1 medium jalapeño, (minced); 2 tbsp lime juice (freshly squeezed); 8 oz log soft goat cheese

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This Fresh Cherry Salsa is sweet but savoury, spicy but fruity. Serve with goat cheese or whipped feta cheese as an appetizer, or as a side with grilled fish, chicken or chips!

Fresh cherry salsa is a must-try!

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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
🛒 Ingredients
🔪 Instructions
⏱Make ahead of time
🗒 Other ways to serve cherry salsa
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

With only five ingredients, this cherry salsa is quick and easy to chop, combine and serve.

Roughly chopped cherries with red onion, cilantro, jalapeño peppers and lime juice makes an amazing salsa. You'll be surprised at just how incredibly good this salsa tastes!

You can serve this fruit salsa in two ways: first, as a fresh fruity appetizer with goat cheese and rice crackers and second, as a crostini topping with the same whipped feta cheese used in this Strawberry Whipped Feta Crostini.

Cherry salsa is naturally sweet with a little heat, and it is always enthusiastically devoured!

🛒 Ingredients

This cherry salsa is sweet but savoury, spicy but fruity.

fresh cherries: any sweet variety of cherries will work. I use a dark red cherry because I like the red and green colour contrast in this salsa.

red onion: for lots of tangy flavour and a little bite

jalapeño pepper: adds that necessary heat

cilantro: for pungent Mexican flavour!

lime juice: freshly squeezed is always best

goat cheese: cherry salsa spooned over a log of soft, creamy goat cheese makes an amazing appetizer.

🔪 Instructions

Cherry Salsa is quick and easy to make.

Combine roughly chopped cherries, finely chopped red onion and cilantro, minced jalapeño pepper and freshly squeezed lime juice.
Just before serving, spoon the salsa over a log of soft goat cheese. Serve with crackers or tortilla chips.

Cherries are abundant in June and early July. I like to make sure we have our fill of fresh ones every year at this time as there are so many ways to use them, such as these 8 Fabulous Recipes for Fresh or Frozen Cherries.

⏱Make ahead of time

You can make this salsa a day before you plan to serve it if you like. If you find that a little liquid collects in the bottom of the dish, simply drain it off.

Spoon the salsa over the log of goat cheese just before serving time.

Fresh cherries, lime, jalapeno, red onion an cilantro for fresh cherry salsa

🗒 Other ways to serve cherry salsa

While it's particularly good with cheese, this is a salsa you'll want to make again and again to serve with fish, chicken or chips.

Serve it as a crostini topping. Spread goat cheese on toasted baguette slices and top with a spoonful of salsa.

It's delicious served as a winter holiday appetizer using either preserved or frozen cherries, too. Look at those festive holiday colours!

Fresh Cherry Salsa with goat cheese on crackers

So if you spot cherries in your local market, snap them up, have your fill, and save a few to make this appetizer with goat cheese and cherry salsa!

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