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Apple and sour-cream soup with cucumber, mint and lychees

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Apple and sour-cream soup with cucumber, mint and lychees
Apple and sour-cream soup with cucumber, mint and lychees

Apple and sour-cream soup with cucumber, mint and lychees

Ben Dearnley
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“Cucumber is an ingredient I use frequently in my desserts. It’s juicy and refreshing, and has an unobtrusive flavour which lends itself well to refreshing desserts. Combined here with the ‘instant soup’, it makes for a quick and surprisingly sophisticated dessert.”

Ingredients

Apple and sour-cream soup

Method

Main

1.For apple and sour cream soup, whisk ingredients in a bowl, strain through a fine sieve and refrigerate to chill (15 minutes).
2.Divide cucumber, lychees and mint among bowls, top with soup and serve chilled.

Cold-pressed unfiltered apple juice is available from select delicatessens.

This recipe is from the February 2011 issue of

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Notes

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