How To Make Cherry Soup with Limoncello
This cherry soup is made with sweet, fresh cherries macerated and coated with sugar and limoncello, an Italian lemon-flavored liqueur, for a luscious side!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2lbfresh sweet cherries
- ½cupsugar
- 2tbsplimoncello,(Italian lemon flavored liqueur), or more to taste
- 2cupswater
- 1cinnamon stick
- ½cupmascarpone,or crème fraîche
- lemon zest,long thin shavings, for garnish
Instructions
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Set aside 1 cup of cherries with a little of their juice.
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Add the water and cinnamon stick to the remaining cherries, then heat to boiling over medium heat while stirring. Remove from the heat and let stand for 30 minutes.
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Drain the cherries, reserving the liquid. Discard the cinnamon stick.
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Puree the cherries through a food mill into a bowl or puree in a food processor and press through a fine sieve into a bowl.
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Stir in the cooking liquid and season to taste with additional limoncello, if needed.
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Cover and refrigerate until cold.
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Ladle the soup into shallow bowls. Cut the reserved cherries in half and place them in a bowl. Add the mascarpone, stir to mix, and add a dollop to each bowl.
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Sprinkle with lemon-zest shavings, serve, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 374.57kcal
- Fat: 10.13g
- Saturated Fat: 5.59g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.56g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.52g
- Carbohydrates: 68.69g
- Fiber: 3.75g
- Sugar: 64.49g
- Protein: 3.11g
- Cholesterol: 31.35mg
- Sodium: 116.58mg
- Calcium: 58.75mg
- Potassium: 380.90mg
- Iron: 1.00mg
- Vitamin A: 122.55µg
- Vitamin C: 8.42mg
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