
This cold summer soup, with sour cherries floating in creamy thickened cherry juice, is a Hungarian specialty. It makes a wonderful light dessert on a hot summer night.
My mother-in-law Vera (Hungarian, naturally) kindly shared her recipe with me. Bottled Morello sour cherries make this dish a snap to prepare: Apart from the cooling time, mine took less than five minutes to put together.
Vera's Hungarian cold sour cherry soup
Ingredients:
Directions:
Drain the cherries over a saucepan big enough to hold the juice from both bottles. Set half the cherries aside for another use (they work well in this cherry clafoutis recipe).Put the remaining cherries in a large bowl.
Whisk the flour into the sour cream or yogurt. Add the sour cream mixture to the cherry juice in the saucepan and whisk to combine. Bring the juice mixture to a boil over medium heat, and let boil gently for a minute - this will take away the taste of the raw flour.
Remove the pan from the heat. Stir in the lemon zest, lemon juice and sugar, and whisk or stir until the sugar is dissolved. Pour the hot liquid over the cherries in the bowl.
Let the soup cool to room temperature, and then chill in the refrigerator at least two hours or up to two days.
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