Rote Grütze (red berry pudding)

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Rote Grütze (red berry pudding)

This simple summery dessert is easy to make and packed with berry goodness.

Prep Time7

Cook Time8

Total Time15

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Danish, German

Servings: (or more if smaller)

Calories: 220kcal

Author: Caroline's Cooking

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Ingredients

1 lb berry mix see notes
1 cup sour cherry juice or sweet cherry/berry juice
¼ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoon corn starch corn flour
3 tablespoon water approx, as needed

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Instructions

Wash the fruit well and prepare as needed for each fruit - remove red currants from the stems, hull and chop strawberries, remove stones from cherries and chop. Chop larger fruits to roughly the size you want in the final dish.
Pour around ¾ of the juice into a pot/saucepan and add the sugar and vanilla. Warm over a medium heat to bring to a simmer, stirring now and then to dissolve the sugar. Meanwhile, add the corn starch/corn flour to the remaining juice and whisk to dissolve and combine.
Once the juice and sugar mixture is simmering, give the corn starch mixture another quick stir (as it can settle out) then add to the pot. At the same time, add the fruit that takes longer to cook (cherries and strawberries, plus blackberries if using). Cook for around 2 - 3 minutes, stirring pretty constantly so that the mixture thickens evenly.
After a couple minutes, add the red currants and raspberries. Cook for another 2 minutes or so so that the fruit softens but doesn't break up too much (you probably want to break larger raspberries a little bit but not completely). If needed, add in a little water to thin the mixture if it becomes too thick. Remember that it will thicken a little more as it cools.
Once the fruit is softened but not completely broken up and the sauce is a good thickness, remove from the heat. Allow to cool a couple minutes then divide between serving dishes. You can either serve warm or refrigerate half an hour or so to cool completely. Serve with vanilla sauce, cream or ice cream.

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Notes

As in main post above, you can use a mix of different fruits for this - I used approximately ⅓ red currants, ⅓ raspberries, ⅙ strawberries and ⅙ cherries which works well.

This is traditionally slightly tart, especially if using red currants as part of the mix. If you prefer sweeter, you can add a little extra sugar. Alternatively, if you use sweet cherry or a berry juice, this will be a little sweeter anyway so you may not need to sweeten more (or if you prefer more tart, you may want to add less sugar).

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