I love Valentine's Day, how about you? I love candy hearts, paper doilies, red roses, pink cupcakes, romantic violin music, candle light dinners and seeing men scurrying here, there and everywhere with bouquets of beautiful flowers for their sweethearts................
............... One of my love languages for Valentine's Day and all through the year is making special treats for family and friends. I prepared this delicious dessert soup especially for my son, since he's quite smitten with clementine oranges. I had some beautiful fresh strawberries and decided to pair them with the sweet clementines for a fun and unique dessert.
This delicious Strawberry-Clementine Soup comes together in minutes, looks quite impressive, is bright, fresh and amazingly guilt-free from a nutritional point of view. How many desserts can you say all that about? Pull out your fanciest glasses for the big V-day and treat you family/friends/sweetheart to a delightful, heart-healthy treat.
P.S. A shortbread cookie (or two) would be a wonderful accompaniment to this delicious, vibrant soup...... and quite legal since the dessert is so healthy. Isn't that how it works?
Ingredients:
1 ½ quarts fresh strawberries
zest and juice of 8 clementine oranges
¼ cup honey
zest and juice of 1 lime
½ cup dry white wine
Greek Yogurt or heavy cream , for drizzling
Instructions:
1. Place all ingredients into a blender or food processor container and puree until smooth. Taste and add a bit more honey and/or lime juice, if needed.
2. Chill for 2-3 hours before serving.
3. Serve in your fanciest glasses, drizzled with Greek yogurt (thinned with a bit of milk or cream) or whipping cream. Swirl yogurt or cream with a toothpick for a beautiful presentation.
zest and juice of 8 clementine oranges
¼ cup honey
zest and juice of 1 lime
½ cup dry white wine
Greek Yogurt or heavy cream , for drizzling
Instructions:
1. Place all ingredients into a blender or food processor container and puree until smooth. Taste and add a bit more honey and/or lime juice, if needed.
2. Chill for 2-3 hours before serving.
3. Serve in your fanciest glasses, drizzled with Greek yogurt (thinned with a bit of milk or cream) or whipping cream. Swirl yogurt or cream with a toothpick for a beautiful presentation.
It looks both utterly decadent and beautiful and whimsical and romantic all at the same time!
ReplyDeleteHi Chris, wow..... what a gorgeous looking dessert soup. Too pretty to be eaten. Love your presentation. So sweet looking.
ReplyDeleteHappy valentine day to you. Have a great week ahead,regards.
This is SO creative! I love how bright the color is!
ReplyDeleteWhat a treat!!! On our last cruise there were a number of "dessert" or cold soups. I didn't actually try any, mostly just because I'm not really good at new things. You've tempted me though!!
ReplyDeleteYes it is legal to have a sugar cookie to accompany this delicious soup.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! Happy Valentine s day!
ReplyDeleteI love this recipe! I am the biggest strawberry fan and swirled with greek yogurt! This is the most perfect dessert!!!
ReplyDeleteLove your presentation and it looks so good. I think I would want a second helping, and kudos to Scott for the beautiful pictures.
ReplyDeleteYour soup sounds very refreshing. Looks like you've managed to keep your Valentines Day dishes healthy. Very nice!0
ReplyDeleteI need to make this soup ASAP! Looks really beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love it Such a prety color too!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty - I will try this recipe as soon as we will be getting fresh strawberries around here.
ReplyDeleteStrawberries and clementines...what a fantastic pairing. I love the touch of lime in there too. I have to admit that neither Hubby or are into Valentine's Day, even though it's the day he popped the question 12 years ago. That being said, I'm all for making this soup as a special treat just for the heck of it.
ReplyDeleteIt looks delicious, pretty, and refreshing!
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty treat, Chris! I love the strawberry and clementine flavors together :).
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, That looks wonderful. I love healthy desserts that don't leave you bloated and that "too full" feeling. After all, it's Valentine's day and we should be getting busy lol!
ReplyDeleteOnly you could come up with this, Chris! What a stunner. The swirls are exquisite. Happy Valentine's Day!
ReplyDeleteOooo, this looks delicious. I'm so tired of seeing unhealthy, decadent chocolate v-day treats...this is such a pretty and refreshing change!
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful Chris and I love the little hearts swirled through the top! We'll be eating a very rich chocolate cake after dinner tonight. No biscuits allowed with that!
ReplyDeleteThe color is just beautiful! So very pretty. I am pinning this for sure! I think it would be awesome in the summer too. Maybe with a splash of rum :)
ReplyDeleteI made a dessert soup once and it was really good. I'm sure this one is perfect... The color is perfect for Valentine's day!
ReplyDeleteStrawberry clementine soup! What's not to love? Absolutely beautiful, Chris!
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's, Chris! And what a superb idea for a heart-healthy Valentine's instead of all the sweets! But you know me, I can't resist desserts...!
ReplyDeleteSo COOL!! Never had a sweet dessert soup before, this is a fantastic idea.
ReplyDeleteYummy, and lovely for a dessert or starter for a special day.
ReplyDeleteLovely! I like fruit soup-a perfect flavorful healthy dessert just the way you've served it here;-)
ReplyDeleteI made this for Valentine's Day. It was light an refreshing--a perfect ending. My cream hearts could use some work, but it was still pretty.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully refreshing and perfect to top off a wonderful dinner! Stunning. (Just wish I had a glass of this now. ) :-)
ReplyDeleteWow, I've never made anything like this before but I love, love the sound of it. The ingredients just seem so perfect together. Perfect for Valentines Day, for sure!
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