Best Chilled Coconut Soup Recipes

CHILLED COCONUT CORN SOUP

Steps:

• Melt coconut oil over medium heat in a large pot. Add onion, ginger, tumeric, and 1/2 tsp. salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is translucent, 8-10 minutes.
• Break corn cobs in half and add to pot along with corn kernels, potato, coconut milk, lime zest, and 1 1/2 cups water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to a simmer and cook until potato is tender, 20-25 minutes.
• Discard corn cobs and lime zest, then transfer soup to a blender. Add 1/2 tsp. salt and purée until smooth. Let cool to room temperature. Transfer to a large bowl and chill, covered, at least 2 hours.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°F. Spread coconut flakes on a small rimmed baking sheet and toast, tossing occasionally, until golden, about 5 minutes; transfer to a plate.
• Stir lime juice into soup and adjust seasonings, thinning with water, if needed. Divide soup among bowls, then top with toasted coconut, avocado, and cilantro. Serve with lime wedges alongside.
• Do Ahead
• Soup can be made 4 days ahead. Cover and chill.

CHILLED COCONUT-HONEYDEW SOUP

Steps:

• Combine honeydew melon, coconut milk, honey, lime juice, cinnamon, and ginger in a blender; blend until smooth. Refrigerate for 1 hour and serve chilled.

CHILLED CORN AND COCONUT SOUP

Steps:

• Bring chile, corn kernels, coconut milk, and water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Reduce heat, and simmer until corn is tender, about 20 minutes.
• Filling a blender halfway and covering with a kitchen towel, puree soup in batches. Strain through a coarse sieve into a large bowl; discard solids. Season with salt and pepper.
• Chill soup at least 3 hours or up to overnight. Stir in lime juice. Garnish each serving with fresh corn kernels if desired, and season with pepper.

CHILLED MINTY COCONUT MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Cut the honeydew melon in half and remove the seeds. Press the seed pith through a fine mesh sieve over a bowl, and reserve the resulting liquid. Discard the seeds. Cut the melon into sections, and remove the rind.
• Place the melon and reserved melon liquid into a tall pot. Puree with a stick blender. Alternately, you can puree the ingredients in a blender. Add the coconut milk, then continue blending until smooth. Stir in the melon liqueur.
• Remove the small tips on each sprig of mint, and reserve for garnish. Stack the remaining mint, then begin rolling the mint into a ball, securing with kitchen string. Drop the rolled mint into the pot with the melon soup. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight.
• Remove mint before dividing the soup into chilled cups. Garnish with the reserved mint tips.

CHILLED BANANA AND COCONUT SOUP

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the bananas, lemon juice, pineapple juice, yogurt, ice cream, rum and coconut milk. Ladle into a blender in batches if necessary, and blend until smooth. Refrigerate until chilled.
• Divide the cold soup among chilled serving bowls, and sprinkle sliced almonds over the top for garnish.

CHILLED COCONUT LEMONGRASS SOUP WITH WARM PINEAPPLE DUMPLING

Steps:

• Heat the simple syrup with the ginger, kaffir lime and lemongrass until just simmering. Do not boil or reduce syrup. Remove from heat, and allow mixture to steep for at least 1 hour. Stir in the coconut milk and heavy cream, and strain through a chinois. Chill soup and serve with dumplings, pineapple lime bombe, tropical fruit salsa and basil oil.
• In a medium skillet, caramelize 3 ounces of sugar until golden brown. Add the diced pineapple and vanilla beans and stir until sugar dissolves and pineapple is softened. Set pineapple aside to cool. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add 1-ounce sugar, pinch of salt and egg and mix until just combined. Fold in pineapple mixture and chill until firm. Fill wrappers with 2 tablespoons of the filling and chill until ready to fry. Heat oil to 350 degrees F and fry dumplings until golden brown. Drain dumplings well before serving. Yield: 1 to 2 dozen
• Whip egg yolks and 1/2 of the sugar and salt until tripled in volume. Fold in the pineapple puree. Whip the egg whites on medium speed until foamy. Increase the speed of the mixer to high and add the remaining sugar. Whip to stiff peaks and fold into the yolk mixture. Fold in whipped cream, lime zest and lime juice. Place in a large container or small containers and freeze until set. Serve frozen.
• To make the pineapple puree, peel, core and chop 1 pound 4 ounces of fresh pineapple into medium chunks. Toss with 3 ounces of sugar and cook until fruit is soft and sugar is just starting to caramelize. Puree in a food processor until smooth. Chill and reserve for use in bombes.
• Dice fruit and toss with minced ginger.
• Blanch basil and shock with ice water. Drain and squeeze water from basil. Place basil in blender; add oil slowly to form green oil. Strain through cheesecloth.

CHILLED COCONUT SOUP

Steps:

• Pour the milk in to a large saucepan. Bring to a boil, stir in the coconut, lower the heat and let simmer for 30 minutes.
• Spoon the mixture into a food processor and process until smooth. This may take a while--up to 5 minutes--so pause frequently and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Rinse the pan to remove any coconut that remains, pour in the processed mixture and add the coconut milk.
• Stir in the chicken stock (homemade if possible) cream, salt, pepper, and sugar.
• Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally then lower the heat and cook for 10 minutes.
• Reserve a few cilantro leaves to garnish, then chop the rest finely and stir into the soup.
• Pour the soup into a large bowl, let it cool, then cover and put into the refrigerator until chilled.
• Just before serving taste the soup and adjust the seasoning as chilling will alter the taste.
• Serve in chilled bowls, garnished with cilantro leaves.

CHILLED HONEY-ROASTED PEACH AND CARDAMOM SOUP WITH COCONUT CREAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Toss peaches, brown sugar and honey in large bowl. Place peaches cut side down on prpared baking sheet. Roast peaches 15 minutes, turn over and bake until tender and juices begin to caramelize, about 10 minutes longer. Scrape peaches and pan juices into food processor or blender and cool; blend until smooth. Add pineapple juice, cardamom and salt; blend until smooth. Transfer soup to a medium bowl, season to taste with lime juice. Cover and refrigerate for 2-8 hours. Pour cilled soup into bowls and pour coconut cream in center, sprinkle with a dash of nutmeg, add a sprig of mint or a few peach slices and serve.

CHILLED AVOCADO COCONUT SOUP

Steps:

• Combine avocado, garlic, the chicken stock, lime juice, sour cream, and salt and pepper in a blender or food processor and puree. Mix in coconut milk until smooth. Stir in hot pepper sauce.
• Chill the soup for at least 1 hour. Garnish with chopped chives just before serving.

CHILLED COCONUT SOUP WITH SPICE-ROASTED PINEAPPLE

Steps:

• Bring coconut milk, grated coconut, and 1/2 cup sugar to simmer in heavy large saucepan, whisking until sugar dissolves. Cover and set aside to cool. Strain coconut soup through strainer set over large bowl, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible. Refrigerate until cold, at least 2 hours. (Soup can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and keep refrigerated.) Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place pineapple in 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Stud each quarter with 4 cloves. Place remaining 1/2 cup sugar in small bowl; scrape in seeds from vanilla bean and mix well. Sprinkle vanilla sugar over pineapple. Roast until pineapple is tender and juices brown, adding pineapple juice by tablespoonfuls as needed to keep pan juices from burning, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool pineapple completely, basting occasionally with syrupy pan juices. (Can be made 3 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.) Transfer pineapple to plate; cut into 1/2-inch cubes. Ladle soup into 8 bowls. Top with scoop of sorbet. Spoon pineapple around sorbet. Drizzle pan juices over. Garnish with mint and serve.

CHILLED BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND COCONUT SOUP

Steps:

• On a steady work surface, using a mallet or the back of a sturdy knife, bruise the root end of the lemongrass. In a large pot over high heat, add the lemongrass, vegetable stock, and ginger and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Strain the stock and return it to the pot. Add the butternut squash to the stock and simmer until the squash is fully cooked and begins to break down, about 1 hour. Remove from the heat and cool. Add the coconut milk, blending the mixture in batches until smooth. Season with lime juice and salt, and chill. To serve, garnish the soup with cilantro, cashews and coconut.