Monday, July 5, 2010

Chilled Strawberry Soup



Ok, so yesterday I went Strawberry picking at Swanton Berry Farm (loved the place) and picked like tons of strawberries and so no points for guessing what I made :) Yep, chilled strawberry soup.  I pretty much followed the same recipe as I did for chilled raspberry soup, except for minor variations and except for the fact that this soup was made from personally-handpicked, organic strawberries, whereas the other one was made from store-bought frozen raspberries.  So here goes the recipe:

Recipe:

Strawberries - 20 oz. (fresh or frozen)
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Sour cream - 3/4 cup
Heavy cream - 3/4 cup
Strawberry juice - 1 cup (any other berry juice will do)
Lemon juice - 2 teaspoons
Mint - few sprigs, very finely chopped
  • Clean and chop off the greens from the strawberries. Cut into pieces.
  • Using a blender, puree the strawberries.  Use the strawberry juice while blending.
  • Fold in the sour cream and heavy cream.  Add sugar, lemon juice.  Mix well.  Refrigerate.
  • Serve chilled.  Garnish with heavy cream, very finely chopped mint leaves.
Just like Chilled Raspberry Soup - Although an appetizer, this soup is almost like a dessert in disguise! 

Enjoy!

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