Two Melon Soup Food

MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Cut ends off each cantaloupe and stand upright. Remove skin in strips working around melons. Halve melons and seed with spoon. Chunk melons and place pieces in food processor. You will work in 2 batches. Fill processor 3/4 full. Add 1 tablespoon sugar, the juice of 1/2 lime and about 3/4 cup spring water. Pulse grind them process soup until smooth. Adjust sugar to your taste and pour soup into 2 bowls, repeat process. Top each soup bowl with kiwi and raspberries and serve.

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!

MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Place melon cubes, lemon juice, white sugar, honey, and a pinch of salt in a blender and puree for 1 minute. Then add the mint and yogurt and puree another 1 minute. While pureeing, add the grappa. Transfer the puree to a glass pitcher. Refrigerate. Serve with crostini bread sticks wrapped in prosciutto to enhance the soup's sweet flavors.

TWO-MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Cut the cantaloupe and honeydew melons in half; remove and discard the seeds. Using a melon baller, scoop out several chunks of each melon and reserve as garnish. Scoop out the remaining flesh of the cantaloupe and place it in the bowl of a food processor or blender, discarding the rind. Add 1/4 cup plum wine or lillet and a pinch of salt and process until very smooth. Transfer to a clean container or small pitcher and refrigerate until very cold. Repeat the process with the honeydew melon and refrigerate until very cold.

MIX-AND-MATCH MELON SOUP

Steps:

• In a food processor, puree honeydew, lime juice, moscato, mint, and 1/4 teaspoon salt until smooth, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a bowl, and refrigerate.
• Rinse out food-processor bowl. In food processor, puree cantaloupe, creme fraiche, honey, lemon juice, and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt until smooth, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and refrigerate. Both soups can be made 24 hours in advance.
• To serve soups, divide three-fourths of the honeydew soup among four soup bowls, and divide three-fourths of the cantaloupe soup among four other soup bowls. Garnish each serving of honeydew soup with remaining cantaloupe soup, and each serving of cantaloupe soup with remaining honeydew soup. Serve immediately.

CHILLED MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Have all your fruit prepared and chilled.
• Place honeydew melon into a blender and process until smooth, (do not over process), pour into a bowl and set aside.
• Rinse out blender and process the cantaloupe until smooth; pour into a bowl.
• To each bowl of puréed melon; add 2 tablespoons chilled vodka, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, and 2 teaspoons lime juice, stir well, cover and chill.
• Place sliced strawberries in blender and process until smooth. Pour into a bowl; cover and chill.
• To serve:.
• Pour 1/2 cup of cantaloupe mixture into each of 4 individual bowls.
• Pour 1/2 cup of honeydew mixture in center of cantaloupe mixture.
• Dollop each serving with 2 tablespoons of puréed strawberries in the center.
• Take a wooden tooth pick, place it below the surface of the strawberry purée and without lifting it, pull it to the edge of the bowl, passing through the honeydew and cantaloupe purées. Repeat this all the way around the bowl. For an even more decorative pattern, starting from the edge of the bowl (in-between the stripes you have just made), place the tooth pick into the cantaloupe purée and pull it in the opposite direction to the center of the bowl, passing through the honeydew purée ending in the strawberry purée. You can do more simple decorative pattens by making random swirls, waves, or wiggly lines. It is a blank canvas, have fun.
• Garnish with a sprig of mint. (optional).

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 SOUP

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
• Place half of the fruit mixture into the container of an electric blender; process until smooth; pour puree into a large bowl.
• Repeat with the remainder of the fruit mixture.
• Add more cinnamon and honey to taste.
• Chill for several hours before serving.