Last Updated on November 13, 2019 by Chef Mireille
Known as Sekahadelma Keitto in Finland and Fruktsoppa in Sweden, this is a traditional dessert soup usually served at Christmas with rice pudding. For a rice pudding similar to the Finnish version, you can use the Belgian version here to make a complete Finnish dessert.
When you cook a lot of International food, you will often see similarities between cuisines, however they usually have some common factor i.e. colonized by the same country, slave history, etc. What relationship Finland could have to Peru I don’t know, but this is very similar to Mazamorra Morada, which I made here. A Peruvian in Finland for Christmas won’t be feeling too homesick with this similar holiday recipe.
I had neglected to soak the fruits and needed to make this for today’s post for letter D as the Blogging Marathon crew are cooking alphabetically Journey Through Cuisines. I decided to do an instant version without pre-soaking the fruits. I just cooked it in more liquid for a longer period of time. However, I have noted below the traditional method as well.
Dried Fruit Soup
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Finishing Time: 1 hour (to chill)
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients:
- 5 oz. mixed dried fruit (I used peaches, pears and tart cherries)
- 6 cups water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon potato starch
- juice of 1 lemon
Combine fruit, water and cinnamon in a large pot. Cook on high heat, uncovered, for 30 minutes. Add sugar and stir to combine. Cook for another 15 minutes.
Remove fruit and cinnamon. Reduce heat to medium.
In a small bowl, whisk potato starch with 1 tablespoon of water to form a paste. Add to fruit liquid, stirring constantly and cook for 1-2 minutes until liquid thickens.
Combine fruit and liquid in a container and refrigerate until chilled.
Serve cold with rice pudding, sour cream or yogurt.
Notes:
Traditionally, the fruits would be soaked overnight and then cooked in only 4 cups of water for 15 minutes before adding the slurry.
Since it is so sweet, you definitely need something milky and creamy to balance the sweetness. You can also eat with sour cream or yogurt, if you don’t have any rice pudding around.
Although not traditional, this also makes a great topping for ice cream.
Dried Fruit Soup
Ingredients
- 5 oz. mixed dried fruit I used peaches, pears and tart cherries
- 6 cups water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon potato starch
- juice of 1 lemon
Instructions
- Combine fruit, water and cinnamon in a large pot. Cook on high heat, uncovered, for 30 minutes. Add sugar and stir to combine. Cook for another 15 minutes.
- Remove fruit and cinnamon. Reduce heat to medium.
- In a small bowl, whisk potato starch with 1 tablespoon of water to form a paste. Add lemon juice. Add to fruit liquid, stirring constantly and cook for 1-2 minutes until liquid thickens.
- Combine fruit and liquid in a container and refrigerate until chilled. Serve cold with rice pudding, sour cream or yogurt.
Notes
Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 63
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Soup with dried fruits,wow what a treat.It must have tasted awesome.
That is quite an interesting addition to the holiday table. And don’ the fruits need chopping?
traditionally they are left whole – since they are so soft your teeth are good enough to break them as you are eating
How interesting and i would absolutely love this on my ice cream. Lovely selection of recipe!
Hearing this for the first time. Amazing recipe Mir!!
The soup sounds more like a dessert , but very interesting and delicious . Would love to try it .
It is a dessert. It’s a dessert soup.
This is something quite interesting and inviting Mir.Kudos to your choice of theme and recipe selection..
Very interesting dessert soup Mir, it’s new me. Looks delicious…Bookmarked the recipe:)
I was wondering what a fruit soup would be..what an interesting way to make this Mir..very sinful!
This is so new to me. Didn’t know how dry fruits can be incorporated into soup until I read your post. Looks so lovely…
Loved the fruit soup .. Our kind of mild fruit based dessert ! Bookmarking.
And yes, as we read so many recipes in our “research” for BM, we realise so many common recipes across states / countries isn’t it ?
So true , some of the recipes are so similar, though they are from different cuisines. Fruit dessert soup looks lovely and delicious
Interesting recipe Mir Thought it was a starter nice recipe…
What an interesting soup with dried fruit soup. Looks o tasty and delicious.
Different soup, never had a chance to make this kind of soup with fruits, interesting one.
Very interesting fruit soup, Mir.
I feel it will go so well as a topping on vanilla ice cream. I can almost feel the flavors…
I havent heard about a recipe like this bfore. Nice!
Thats a very simple and sinful recipe….
i have had berries, fruits and nuts of all kinds while in finland..and can completely relate to this recipe….nicely
This looks so good Mir.So many new recipes to learn from you