Rote Grütze
- Ready In:
- 24hrs 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 2 (8 1/4 ounce) packages raspberries, frozen in light syrup and thawed
- 1 (16 ounce) package strawberries, frozen in light syrup, thawed and pureed with their juice
- 1 lb dark sweet red cherries, stemmed pitted and quartered or (20 ounce) can dark sweet cherries, with juice reserved separately
- 1 quart natural red grape juice or 1 quart cranberry juice
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest, finely grated
- 1⁄4 cup lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- 2⁄3 cup cornstarch, unsifted
- 1 cup dry red wine (preferably German)
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TOPPPING
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
directions
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FOR DESSERT:
- Combine raspberry juice, pureed strawberries and cherry juice in 1 quart measure.
- Add enough grape juice to total 1 quart.
- Pour mixture into heavy saucepan (NOT ALUMINUM).
- Add 2 more cups grape juice.
- Stir in sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice.
- Bring to a boil, uncovered, over medium heat stirring often.
- Combine cornstarch with wine in separate bowl to make a thin, smooth paste.
- As soon as mixture boils, add corn starch paste, whisking vigorously.
- Immediately reduce heat to low; cook and stir for 3 minutes until mixture boils again, thickens, and starch taste is gone.
- Stir in raspberries and cherries gently.
- Heat and stir 1 minute more.
- Remove from heat and stir 1 minute more.
- Cool mixture to room temperature.
- Chill for 24 hours.
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FOR TOPPING:
- Shortly before serving, beat heavy cream with vanilla sugar until slightly thickened, but still thin enough to pour.
- Spoon Rote Grutze into stemmed goblets and top each with a generous ladle of whipped cream and serve.
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Reviews
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This is really almost excactly like the recipe I use for it and it is one of my all time favorite desserts.I use any combination of fresh or frozen berries morels or cherries that are available. I think the trick is to use fruit juice and red wine for the liquid instead of water as some other recipes do.It makes for a more intensive flavor. BTW, you could give it an additional english title such as red fruit pudding so that it is more easily found with the search engine(just a suggestion). Thanks for posting.
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This is really almost excactly like the recipe I use for it and it is one of my all time favorite desserts.I use any combination of fresh or frozen berries morels or cherries that are available. I think the trick is to use fruit juice and red wine for the liquid instead of water as some other recipes do.It makes for a more intensive flavor. BTW, you could give it an additional english title such as red fruit pudding so that it is more easily found with the search engine(just a suggestion). Thanks for posting.