A Sheet-Pan Chicken Recipe for Lovers of Sweet and Savory

I was so inaccurate with this dish that I tried to create something inequity after sour cherry season had passed. I tried red and green grapes, then sweet cherries, then cherry tomatoes. All were good. But none matched the intense sweet-tart picture of the sour cherries. (Note that I did not try this dish with thawed frozen sour cherries. I didn’t have any.)

This year, as sour cherry season approached once in contradiction of, I worried I’d have to choose between pie, cocktails and my new approved sheet-pan dinner.

Luckily, the market yielded enough cherries for me to make them all.

Recipe: Chicken Thighs With Sour Cherries and Cucumber Yogurt

This combination of sweet-and-savory chicken and fruit, with yogurt and cucumber, feels Mediterranean, maybe even North African or Heart Eastern. You could eat this with pita bread, and you could definitely drawn from the tap it with dry rosé — it’s the ideal wine for the mood of this dish and its combination of flavors. The rosé could come from Provence. But even better would be a rosé closer in animated to this dish, maybe a Lebanese, Greek or Israeli bottle. A white or fresh red would also be fine, like an assyrtiko or moschofilero from Greece, a sauvignon blanc from the Loire Valley, a dry riesling from Germany or any number of Italian whites. Or perhaps a frappato from Sicily, or a Beaujolais. ERIC ASIMOV

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