Stone Fruits + Vegetables Chilled Soup

Dear : Lovers

How have you been doing during this week? The sunshine has surely been bright and beautiful lately. It made me want to plop myself on top of the moving sky, and move forward to summer. I mean what not to love about summer anyways? I bet you are looking forward for it too. Speaking of summer, the latest food demonstration that Iam about to do in class is one of a kind. We can pick our own theme and do almost anything exciting. My partner and I decided to take a theme on “Bringing Summerlicious Home”. Surely one of amazing things about Toronto is the convenience of getting great length of cuisines within your budget. This is a good chance to explore the different variety of cuisine in Toronto. However, summer often ties in with a lot of socializing, which means, warning on your pocket! Now…I propose why don’t we bring a lovely summerlicious home to our backyard and entertain our guest while keeping the piggy bank safe? I promise you it won’t be painful, rather it will be very gratifying!

This idea of summerlicious actually ties in with another concept of eating local! Ontario produce rocks! Especially during summer, you can almost find everything you need in your local grocery shop! You can check what are fresh  in your local grocery stores or you can go tohttp://www.foodland.gov.on.ca/english/availability.html. This way you are supporting our own local produce and get the freshest ingredients that are available!

So I did a little thinking what I can do with the ingredients available in Summer, and today I offer you a Stone fruits with Sweet Bell Pepper Chilled Soup for  Bringing Summerlicious Home

Now for those who doesn’t get what stone fruit is, it is any fruit that has a stone- like seed inside their meat such as nectarines, plums, peaches,cherries,etc.

 Here are the ingredients that you need to make the soup:

• 4 ripe nectarines, seeded, and diced
  
• 2 ripe peaches seeded and  diced
  
• 1 sweet red pepper seeded chooped roughy
  
• Juice from one navel orange/ you can use a readily prepackaged OJ
  
• ( approximately ½ of cup)
  
• 2 carrots peeled, slice thinly to reduce cooking time
  
• A hint of star anise to bring out the earthy flavor of the fruits and vegetable
  
• Pinch of salt
  
• 1 tbsp Olive oil
  
• A dollop of Balkan yoghurt/sour cream
  
• 1tbsp sugar/ honey
  

 

The “execution”

• Sautee all the  vegetables and fruits  with 1tbsp of olive oil
• Add the pinch of salt and sugar/ honey
• Pour the orange juice to simmer the vegetable and fruits
• Add a hint of star anise ( I like to keep it simmer with the soup for 10 minutes as it tends to be really perfumy)
• Simmer the mixture until the fruits and vegetables are fully cooked.
• In a food processor or blender, process the ingredients until it creates a smooth consistency
• For velvety texture, use a strainer to separate the soup from the grainish texture from the fruit skins
• Chill the soup on the refrigerator
• When its ready, on the center of the bowl, put a dollop of Yoghurt/ sour cream
• Pour the soup around the Yoghurt
• Garnish with fresh sliced nectarines / baked nectarine chips

 

Quite frankly, I think this soup is very summerlicious! The vibrant colour  just gives such a joy and warm feeling, on top of the  vitamin and fiber goodness in it!

Its worth the try!

 

Passion + Patience

*Gastrobutterfly*

A food to your soul.