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4 delicious sweet and savoury plum recipes for the autumn season – PHOTOS
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Plums are in season from early summer all the way into October; nonetheless, these sweet, juicy stone fruits always remind us that Autumn is coming and it is time for making jams, fruity pies, cakes and plum dumplings. Make the most of the autumn season with these delicious plum recipes.
Hungarian creamy plum soup with whipped cream
Fruit soups are incredibly popular in Hungary and are made from a wide variety of fruits such as apple, cherry, strawberry or raspberry.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg plums
- 3 dl water
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1tsp ground cloves
- roughly 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1tbsp honey
- 1 unflavoured yoghurt
- Wash the plums, then cut them in half and remove the pit.
- Add the fruit, the water, the cinnamon, the vanilla bean, the cloves and the grated lemon zest to a pot and bring it to a boil.
- When the plums are cooked, remove the soup from the heat and let the soup cool slightly. Transfer it to a blender and blend until smooth. Add the honey and the yoghurt to the mixture.
- Serve when cold with some whipped cream on top.
You can find more special Hungarian fruit soup recipes HERE.
Quick duck stew with spicy plums
This dish offers the perfect balance of savoury and sweet.
Ingredients:
- 400 g skinless duck breasts
- 250 g plums
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 dl red wine
- salt
- freshly ground pepper
- cloves
- rosemary
- cinnamon
- 1 tbsp plum jam
- Wash the plums, remove the pit and cut them into cubes. Cut the meat into approximately 6 to 8 cm long strips, then heat the butter in a pan and brown the duck breats.
- Add the wine and bring it to a boil. Simmer until the meat is half done and add the plums and the plum jam.
- Season with salt, pepper, cloves, rosemary and cinnamon, then braise until soft. Serve with mashed potatoes.
Hungarian plum pie with poppy seed
Those plum topped squares look good. I love Gomboc and also plum soup. Never ever had whipped cream in the soup though. only had whipped cream on espresso or Key Lime pie…which is actually a pie even if the crust is not the flaky dough type that makes pie pie.
When i move back home to Hungary in 3 yrs time the first thing I want to eat is cherry soup and pastry with ground poppy seed in it. Can’t find any amount of poppy seed here or find a place that would grind it for me to let out the oils which carry all of the flavour. Bagels that they dust the tops of here in NS Canada is like eating sand so thankfully most of it falls off into the bag. They don’t use an egg wash to make them stick.