Strawberry Citrus Soup served with Chocolate Dipped Berries
This is part of our Valentine’s day dinner planner. It is a light, elegant finish to a meal. It is both vegan and gluten free. We are serving here with dipped berries. You could also serve with cookies or a tuille. Let us know if you are interested in more recipes.
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Strawberry Citrus Soup
A very light dessert to finish out a heavy meal. Vegan and gluten free.
Ingredients
- 1 quart Fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
- 2 each lemons, limes, and clementines
- 2 cups Sugar
- 2 ounce grand marnier
- 1 cup Vegan chocolate
- 1 T cooking oil
- 4 each large strawberries
Instructions
- Peel the zest from the citrus fruits, place in a large mixing bowl
- Hull and slice the strawberries, place in the bowl with the citrus zest
- Juice the lemons, limes, and clementines into the bowl with the berries
- Add the sugar and grand Marnier and toss until well coated. Place in fridge to allow the fruit to macerate for at least 8 hours, preferably over night.
- Check the maceration process. Once the berries are translucent and a lot of liquid is apparent, remove from the fridge. Place a fine strainer over a large receptacle and line with a fine cheesecloth, double up on the cheesecloth if you can. Strain, the soup through the cheesecloth. Let it sit for a good half hour. The resulting liquid should be translucent with no particles.
- Make the dipped berries. Melt chocolate in a double boiler (A mixing bowl over a pot of boiling water) add a little oil to thin the chocolate.
- Hold the strawberry by the stem and dip it into the chocolate. Dip one side, then the other to get an even coat. Allow to cool on parchment paper on a flat pan.
- Dip a fork in the remaining melted chocolate and drizzle over the dipped berries. If you have white chocolate, you could melt some of that as well and drizzle to give a nice contrast.
- Serve the "soup" in a clear glass to show off the clarity. Accompany with the dipped berries.
Notes
This is an elegant refreshing way to end a meal. You will have the leftover berries that can be used to make smoothies or mix with cream cheese to make a nice stuffed french toast. Or, you could make a nice sundae topping.
Here we are serving it with dipped berries. You could also serve with cookies or a tuille. If you are interested, we can get you recipes. Or, you could buy them. You’ve done a lot of work putting on a Valentine’s dinner. Let someone else do some of the work for you.