Cherry Clafoutis

This is a french country  dessert, (pronounced as Kla-foo-tee ). It is a very light dessert and sweetness of the fresh cherries is delicious.
Ingredients:

 Fresh cherries - 490 gms ( stones removed - 390 gms),
All purpose flour - 1/2 cup or 65 gms ( sieved ),
Eggs - 2,
Granulated sugar - 2 tbsp or 25 gms,
Milk - 3/4 cup or 180 ml,
Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp,
Granulated sugar - 2 tbsp or 25 gms,

Butter - 1 tbsp .


Method :
Pre heat oven to 220 C
Wash the cherries and remove the stem and pit.
Take a bowl and beat the eggs for 30 seconds with a beater .

Add sugar and beat for 20 seconds .

Add vanilla essence,flour and milk and beat for 60 seconds on high till the batter is smooth.

Let it rest while we prepare the fruits.


If you have a heavy 8 or 9 inch oven non stick pan than use that or you can use any pan and then transfer the contents to a greased round 8 or 9 inch baking pan to bake.


Put pan on  low heat and add 1 tbsp of butter .

Make sure to coat the butter all sides and bottom.

When the butter is bubbling add the pitted cherries and cook until the cherries have softened a bit  and coated with butter ( 2 to 3 minutes on low heat ).

Then sprinkle the cherries with 2 tbsp of sugar and cook until the sugar has dissolved and turns into a syrup ( 1 to 2 minutes - low to medium heat ).

Close the gas and then pour the batter over the cherries and bake for 20 minutes or until the clafoutis is puffed ,set and baked golden brown.

Do not open the oven door  before 20 minutes as it may collapse.

If you do not have a oven pan then transfer the cherries with sugar syrup into a greased pan .
Spread the cherries and the syrup evenly at the bottom and then pour the batter over it .
Place the pan into the oven and bake for 20 minutes.

Take out from oven and dust with icing sugar .

You can serve this dessert immediately with icing sugar and  yogurt or ice cream or  whipping cream. Drizzle some cherry couli and you will love this light dessert .
If you leave it to cool it tastes better, when the cherries are coated with its own juice.
Can have it for breafast too!
Leftovers can be kept  in the fridge .