Best Pineapple Melon Mint Cold Summer Soup Recipes

CHILLED PINEAPPLE SOUP WITH COTIJA CHEESE AND BASIL

Steps:

• Add all ingredients to a Vitamix or blender.
• Puree until smooth.
• Chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Garnish with cotija cheese.

COLD MELON SOUP

Steps:

• In a blender container, combine honeydew, lime juice, and honey. Blend until smooth. Pour into a bowl and add yogurt.
• Beat with a fork or wire whisk until blended.
• Chill several hours.
• Serve cold.
• Whisk before serving and garnish each bowl with a few melon balls.
• NOTE: chilling time not included with prep time.

CHILLED MELON, CUCUMBER, AND MINT SOUP

Steps:

• Peel, halve, and seed 2 cucumbers, then coarsely chop. (You should have about 4 1/2 cups.) Halve and seed remaining (unpeeled) cucumber; cut into a 1/4-inch dice. Working in batches, puree chopped cucumbers, melon, 1/2 cup lime juice, mint, and ice in a food processor or blender. Season with salt and more lime juice. Transfer soup to a bowl, cover, and refrigerate until ready to serve, up to 2 hours.
• Smear 1/4 cup yogurt onto two sides of each serving bowl. Spoon chilled soup into bowls, drizzle with oil, and sprinkle with diced cucumbers and mint. Serve, with lime wedges.

PINEAPPLE MELON MINT COLD SUMMER SOUP

Steps:

• Clean, peel and cut up all three very ripened fruits. (The pineapple might even be a little light brown on the inside.) Put in a blender or food processor and blend/process well.
• Throw in ~1 cup of loose fresh peppermint leaves and pulse just for a moment.
• Refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Serve in either cup size or bowl size.
• Garnish with a nice sprig of fresh mint.

THE ULTIMATE SUMMER FRUIT SOUP

Steps:

• Combine the blueberries, pineapple, oranges, melon, lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar, and pineapple juice in a large skillet. If desired, stir in the yogurt to make the mixture more creamy. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until the sugar dissolves and the fruit softens, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Place fruit mixture into a blender or the bowl of a food processor; blend or pulse until smooth. Spoon into a freezer dish. Chill until mixture becomes slushy, about 20 to 25 minutes, or until desired consistency. Serve garnished with fresh mint leaves.

COLD CANTALOUPE SOUP

Steps:

• Cut cantaloupe in 1-inch chunks. Place about 1/4 of them in a blender and process at high speed until puréed. Once you have a purée, gradually add remaining melon, processing until the mixture is smooth.
• Add lime juice and blend briefly. Season with salt to taste and blend again.
• Refrigerate until ready to serve, or serve at once. Divide soup among 6 soup plates and drizzle a little balsamic vinegar in a circular or squiggly pattern on top of each.

FINNISH SUMMER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat stock to boiling in a medium pot; add potatoes. Reduce to a Simmer until potatoes are soft, about 20 minutes.
• Add salt, pepper, butter, onions, carrots and green beans; simmer until tender then add peas. If you can't find fresh peas, frozen works just fine.
• In a small bowl, stir together half-and-half and flour until smooth; stir into the simmering vegetables slowly.
• Cook, stirring constantly until the soup is slightly thickened. Serve immediately.

WATERMELON AND FETA CHEESE SUMMER SOUP RECIPE

Steps:

• Chop the watermelon.
• Dice cucumbers.
• Blend the watermelon.
• Strain through a nylon mesh sieve to remove seeds.
• Add diced cucumber.
• Chill well until ready to serve.
• Pour chilled soup into cocktail glasses or glass bowls.
• Crumble feta cheese on top.
• Garnish with mint leaves.
• Bon Appétit!

TWO-TONE MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Slice, deseed & peel melons, then cut them into chunks, placing each melon in separate bowls.
• In a blender puree cantaloupe, then pour back into its bowl.
• Repeat for the honeydew, keeping each pureed melon separate.
• Stir 2 to 4 teaspoons of lime juice into each puree.
• Refrigerate until well chilled, at least 4 hours, but no longer than 24 hours.
• To serve, pour some of each puree into a separate measuring cup, then SIMULTANEOUSLY pour each measured amount into opposite sides of the same wide soup bowl. DO NOT MIX.
• If desired, add a little yogurt to center of each bowl & swirl it a little between the two purees!

WATERMELON SOUP

Steps:

• Blend watermelon, lemon juice, mint, and honey in a blender until smooth. Refrigerate 2 hours before serving.

CHILLED WATERMELON SOUP

Steps:

• Put 5 cups of diced watermelon in a food processor or blender and blitz to a purée. Strain purée through a fine-meshed sieve into a bowl. You should have about 4 cups purée. Season with salt and pepper and cayenne, 1 tablespoon vinegar and 2 tablespoons lime juice. Taste and adjust seasoning. Chill bowl on ice or refrigerate.
• To serve, place remaining diced watermelon, honeydew melon and cucumber in a small mixing bowl. Toss with a little salt and pepper, 2 tablespoons lime juice and 2 tablespoons olive oil. Divide mixture evenly into chilled soup bowls.
• Ladle watermelon purée into each bowl. Sprinkle with chives, basil and mint. Add a sprinkle of crushed red pepper and flaky salt if desired. Pass lime wedges separately.