Seductive Spiced Plum Cherry Soup
From mystic_river1 14 years ago
- 50 minutes to make
- Serves 4
This 'soup' is actually a dessert from a natural products co-op. Spiced fruit was made very often by my Mom but I have never seen a recipe as good as this one, It made me so nostalgic for my Mom that I ordered the fruit from them, which is organic and had made this last Easter. Read more So I dug out their recipe and will make it again. See less
Ingredients
- Ingredients shopping list
- 3/4 cup ripe red plums, split shopping list
- 3/4 cup unsweetened pomegranate juice shopping list
- 10 black peppercorns shopping list
- 6 whole cloves shopping list
- 1 star anise shopping list
- 1 cinnamon stick shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon whole fennel seeds shopping list
- 2 tablespoons honey shopping list
- 1 12-ounce package frozen dark sweet pitted cherries, defrosted or 3/4 pound fresh cherries, pitted shopping list
- 2-4 ounces sour cream or 2-4 ounces soy yogurt, to garnish shopping list
- 1 tablespoon finely julienned orange zest shopping list
How to make it
- Directions
- Combine the plums, pomegranate juice, peppercorns, cloves, anise, cinnamon, and fennel seeds in a small heavy saucepan and bring the liquid to a boil. Cover, turn the heat down so the liquid gently boils, and cook until the plums are very soft, 40 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool with the spices.
- Discard the cinnamon. Pour the soup through a fine strainer, pressing to extract as much liquid as possible. You should have about 2 1/2 cups.
- Stir in the honey and the cherries.
- To serve, ladle about 1/2 cup of soup into four small bowls. Fill a plastic squeeze-bottle with sour cream and make decorative dots, squiggles, or a crosshatch pattern on the top. Sprinkle a pinch of orange zest in the center and serve.
The Rating
Reviewed by 8 people-
Wow. Superb as always!
merlin
in San Francisco loved it
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What an interesting combo Mystic. Some of the ingredients are going to be hard to get here but really interesting. RJ
elgourmand
in Apia loved it
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very unique..sounds absolutely delicious...
andiecooks
in home loved it
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