How to Cook Fruit Soup

Serves: 8

Preparation time: 15 mins + 1 hour (inactive)

Cooking time: 10 mins

Ingredients needed to make Fruit Soup:

• 3 cups apricots, chopped
• 1 ½ cups mango, chopped
• 2 cups pineapple, chopped
• 1 cup blueberries
• 2 lime peels
• 2 lemon peels
• 2 pieces orange peel
• 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• ¼ cup fresh orange juice
• 1 tbsp minced ginger
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 4 cups water
• Few mint sprigs, to garnish

Cooking instructions for Fruit Soup:

• Heat a medium pot over moderately high heat and spoon in the minced ginger.
• Stir fry it for a couple of minutes and empty a cup of pineapples, 2 cups of apricots and ¾ cup mango chunks into it.
• Throw in the citrus peels and give them a nice stir to mix well.
• Cook the mixture for another couple of minutes, stirring periodically and pour in the fruit juices as well as water.
• Stir them together, along with the sugar and bring the mixture to a simmer.
• Continue to cook the mixture likewise for 5 minutes, stirring periodically, until the fruits turn mushy and turn off the heat.
• Set aside to cool the mixture to some extent and pour portions of it into the food processor to pulse into a smooth puree, until all of it is blended.
• Tip the soup into a fine mesh sieve to strain into a large bowl and stir in rest of the fruits into it until they are distributed evenly throughout the mixture.
• Place a lid on top and leave in the fridge to chill.
• Ladle it into serving bowls and place a mint sprig on top of each serving to garnish.
• Serve cold.

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons