End Your Festive Meal with This Delicious and Refreshing Dessert. This mandarin soup with pomegranate and ice cream combines the sweet and fresh taste of mandarins with the sparkling juiciness of pomegranate seeds. Additionally, this soup looks sunny, transporting you to sunnier places even on the coldest winter evenings. Later in this article, you will also learn everything about mandarins and pomegranates.

How to make mandarin soup with pomegranate and ice cream?

Simple, Surprising, and Easy to Prepare in Advance. This mandarin soup with pomegranate and ice cream has all it takes to become your new favorite dessert.

Preparing the Mandarin Soup

You can perfectly prepare the mandarin soup in advance. Later, you only need to scoop it into glasses and finish with pomegranate and ice cream, or other decorations as desired.

We start by juicing the mandarins. Alternatively, you can also use oranges or tangerines. We'll discuss the similarities and differences later in this article. Use a little of the mandarin juice to dissolve the cornstarch.

Then, we heat the wine with the vanilla sugar, cinnamon, and regular sugar. We cook it for about ten minutes until the alcohol has mostly evaporated. Then, we add the dissolved cornstarch and let the soup thicken.

Finally, we add the remaining fresh mandarin juice. Mix everything well and let the soup cool down. Once cooled, it can also be placed in the refrigerator.

Collecting the Pomegranate Seeds

Removing the seeds from the pomegranate is perhaps the most challenging part of this recipe. You must know how to do it; otherwise, you risk messing up your entire kitchen. This was the case for me the first time… So I speak from experience ?

First of all, roll the pomegranate firmly on the counter. You can also tap the fruit firmly with a wooden spoon. The goal is to loosen the seeds.

Now you can halve the pomegranate. Hold it firmly and tap the fruit again with a wooden spoon. Most of the seeds will fall out. Finally, you can remove the last seeds by hand. Also, remove the bitter white parts that come along. We don't want them to spoil the delicious sweet taste of the seeds.

But a video says more than a thousand words. That's why I found a good video demonstrating how to remove the seeds from a pomegranate:

- The easiest way to peel a pomegranate (Youtube, The wine sisters).

Serving the Mandarin Soup with Pomegranate and Ice Cream

Now that everything is prepared, it's literally a piece of cake to serve this delightful, surprising dessert. Scoop the mandarin soup into dessert bowls, like those you use for ice cream.

And indeed, the next step is ice cream. Scoop a ball of ice cream into the mandarin soup. Alternatively, you can use Mascarpone or Greek yogurt, depending on your taste.

Finally, finish the dish with some sweet pomegranate seeds. And it's already ready!

Mandarin, tangerine, clementine or orange. What are the differences?

For this recipe, we used mandarins. But you can also replace them with clementines, tangerines or oranges, those other well-known orange citrus fruits.

The most noticeable difference between mandarins and oranges is their size. Mandarins are smaller. But of course, there are more differences. An orange is more or less completely round, while a mandarin has a more flattened shape. A general rule that often applies to food: the smaller it is, the more flavorful it tends to be, and this is true here as well. Mandarins are sweeter than oranges. And finally, they are much easier to peel, making them perfect for eating on the go.

And then there are also tangerines and clementines. Both are also round orange citrus fruits. And both are basically subtypes of mandarins. Every tangerine and every clementine is a mandarin. But not every mandarin is a tangerine or a clementine.

Tangerines have a bright orange color, and their skin is a bit tougher. So a bit more difficult to peel. They are also less sweet than mandarins.

Clementines are the smallest type of mandarins. They are very sweet and seedless. Making them very suitable for eating them "to go".

Learn more about the differences between oranges, mandarins, tangerines and clementines in the following articles:

What are pomegranates?

Finally there is the pomegranate. This fruit wasn't very well-known to us in the past, but now, especially during the holidays, it is readily available. Originally, this fruit comes from Persia and is mainly grown in the region from the Mediterranean to India.

Don't be fooled into thinking that this is a special kind of apple. Once you cut it open, you'll realize that you need to approach this fruit completely differently. It contains many small, sweet seeds that you need to tap out. As we discussed earlier in the article.

Pomegranates have a thick, leathery skin, which makes them easy to store, without any problems, for several weeks. In the fridge, they can be kept for up to a month.

The bright red seeds have a fresh, sweet-and-sour taste. They are also delicious as an appetizer with for example goat cheese. The only thing you need to be careful of is not mixing the bitter white parts under the seeds.

And are pomegranates healthy? Absolutely! The seeds are full of minerals and vitamins that contribute to good immunity, blood clotting, and strong bones. So don't hesitate to regularly mix this exotic fruit into your salad, main course, or as in this case, dessert.

Read more about pomegranates in the following articles:

More surprising.dessert

Desserts don't have to be sugar sweet per definition. You can also make delicious fruit based desserts that are not only sweet, but also bring their portion of vitamins. So be sure to also try these fruity desserts:

If you speak Dutch, you can find the Dutch version of this recipe on gerechtenweb.blog.

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Mandarin soup with pomegranate and ice cream