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Sour cherry soup

3
Points®
Total Time
15 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
0 min
Serves
4
Difficulty
Easy
Wow your family and friends with this stunning dessert, ideal for hot summer days. Ready in just 15 minutes, this chilled tart cherry soup is super simple to prepare. The eye-catching red soup is full of bright cherry flavor and super fresh to the palate. The cherry pieces add great texture and deepen the flavor while the dollop of lime sorbet amplifies the crisp, cool, tartness of the lime and cherry combination. Prepare the soup ahead and serve for a dinner party or throw it together quickly for a family night treat. Ranier cherries, available in late June and early July each year, make a wonderful variety for this dish. Add a touch of mint for an easy variation.

Ingredients

Cherries

24 oz, jar, pitted tart variety

Fresh lemon juice

2 tsp

Table salt

⅛ tsp

Sorbet

1 cup(s), lime variety

Instructions

  1. Put the cherries in a sieve set over a medium bowl. Remove 1/2 cup of the cherries and set aside; reserve the juice. Put the remaining cherries in a food processor and puree until smooth. Pour the cherry puree through a sieve set over the same bowl, pressing hard on the solids to extract as much liquid as possible. Stir in the reserved cherry juice, the lemon juice, and salt.
  2. Refrigerate, covered, until the soup is thoroughly chilled, at least 2 hours or up to 1 day. Ladle 1⁄2 cup soup into each of 4 shallow soup bowls. Garnish each serving with 2 tablespoons of the reserved cherries and a 1⁄4-cup scoop of the sorbet. Serve at once. Yields (1⁄2 cup soup, 2 tablespoons cherries, and 1⁄4 cup sorbet per serving.

Notes

An excellent, efficient straining technique is to use one rubber spatula to press the cherries through the sieve to help loosen the pulp.

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