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Meggyleves

Name: Meggyleves
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Hungary
Ingredients: 1 can (400g) Dark Cherries (canned); 150g Sour cream; 60g Sugar; 1 Cinnamon stick; 3 Clove; 2 tbsp Lemon juice; 1 tbsp All-purpose flour; 500ml Water

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

A chilled sour cherry soup finished with sour cream — Hungary's summer fruit soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Meggyleves is a cold soup eaten in Hungarian summers: tart sour cherries (meggy) are simmered with sugar, cinnamon, and cloves and finished with sour cream, turning it pink. Sweet and tangy, it's served as a starter or dessert at lunch on hot days.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a summer lunch in Hungary, bowls of pale pink chilled soup dotted with red cherries are set out on a terrace table.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Dark Cherries (canned) 1 can (400g)
Sour cream 150g
Sugar 60g
Cinnamon stick 1
Clove 3
Lemon juice 2 tbsp
All-purpose flour 1 tbsp
Water 500ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the water, canned cherry syrup, sugar, cinnamon, and cloves for 10 minutes.
Add the cherries and simmer 5 minutes.
Mix the sour cream with flour and thin it with a little soup.
Return it to the pot, bring just to a boil while stirring, and add lemon juice.
Remove the cinnamon and cloves and chill well.

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