Chilled Melon Soup With Jerked Pork Recipes

CHILLED MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Place the orange juice, yogurt and cantaloupe in a blender; cover and process until pureed. Add the honey, salt, nutmeg and cayenne; cover and process until smooth. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving. Garnish with mint sprigs.

CHILLED MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Dice enough melon to measure 1 cup and combine in a small bowl with cucumber, 2 tablespoons lime juice and scallion green. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve the soup.
• Place the remaining melon and 4 tablespoons lime juice in a blender. Chop the whole scallion and seed and chop jalapeno; add to the blender along with water, orange zest, orange juice, ginger and salt. Blend until smooth and creamy. Taste and add more lime juice, jalapeno and/or orange juice, if desired.
• Refrigerate the soup until chilled, 2 hours.
• Stir the reserved diced melon mixture and divide among 4 soup bowls. Pour the soup into the bowls. Garnish each serving with cilantro (or mint) and yogurt (or creme fraiche), if using.

CHILLED WATERMELON SOUP

Steps:

• Put 5 cups of diced watermelon in a food processor or blender and blitz to a purée. Strain purée through a fine-meshed sieve into a bowl. You should have about 4 cups purée. Season with salt and pepper and cayenne, 1 tablespoon vinegar and 2 tablespoons lime juice. Taste and adjust seasoning. Chill bowl on ice or refrigerate.
• To serve, place remaining diced watermelon, honeydew melon and cucumber in a small mixing bowl. Toss with a little salt and pepper, 2 tablespoons lime juice and 2 tablespoons olive oil. Divide mixture evenly into chilled soup bowls.
• Ladle watermelon purée into each bowl. Sprinkle with chives, basil and mint. Add a sprinkle of crushed red pepper and flaky salt if desired. Pass lime wedges separately.

CHILLED MELON SOUP WITH JERKED PORK

Steps:

• To make the pork, put all the ingredients except the pork into a food processor and process to make a gooey paste. (One teaspoon chopped Scotch bonnet or hot sauce makes a moderately fiery marinade; use more or less to taste.) Rub the pork with the paste, wearing rubber gloves, as the pepper can burn. Cover loosely and refrigerate for 1 day.
• One hour before serving, wipe off the marinade with a towel. Roast pork over a charcoal fire, turning regularly, for 35 to 50 minutes, or until the interior is 140 degrees. Cool.
• To make the soup, finely puree the tomatoes, melon, 2 cucumbers, salt, pepper, chili- pepper flakes and buttermilk in a blender or food processor, working in batches. Transfer to a bowl and stir in the orange zest, mint and coriander. Adjust the seasoning and chill. Slice the remaining cucumber into i-inch half-moons and refrigerate.
• Ladle the soup into 6 bowls. Toss the diced pork with the cucumber half-moons and add to the bowl. Garnish with mint and coriander leaves.

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).

CHILLED MELON SOUP

Steps:

• Dice enough melon to measure 1 cup and combine in a small bowl with cucumber, 2 tbsp lime juice and scallion green. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve soup.
• Place the remaining melon and 4 tbsp of lime juice in a blender. Chop the whole scallion and add to the blender along with the water, orange zest, orange juice, ginger and salt. Blend until smooth and creamy. Taste and add more lime juice, and/or orange juice, if desired.
• Refrigerate the soup until chilled, 2 hours.
• Stir the reserved diced melon mixture and divide among 4 soup bowls. Pour the soup into the bowls and garnish with cilantro (or mint) and yogurt.