When summer knocks on the door and the Danish strawberries are ready, there is nothing better than a bowl of cold strawberry buttermilk soup with home-baked kammerjunkere and fresh strawberries. Read along here and get the easy recipe for a wonderful danish summer dessert or a light meal for the hot days.
Fresh danish strawberry dessert for summer
Cold buttermilk soup equals summer for many Danes. This strawberry buttermilk soup is Danish summer in a bowl. It is a buttermilk soup made with fresh strawberries, which can be eaten as a fresh and delicious summer dessert or as a light meal for hot days.
Cold buttermilk soup is something our kids love, and they especially love when a portion of strawberry buttermilk soup is ready when they come home from school and kindergarten. This is exactly what you need after a day of speeding in the heat.
In Denmark, we can buy ready-made cold buttermilk soup. There are probably many who choose the ready-made solutions when we talk cold buttermilk soup, and that can also be quite nice.
But it’s actually really easy to make homemade cold buttermilk soup, and when you can just sneak a portion of strawberries in, it just gets extra good. You can easily make this dessert in 10 minutes, so there is no excuse for not making it.
Ingredient notes
Strawberries – Of course, strawberries must be used in the recipe. You can use fresh or frozen, thawed berries for the cold buttermilk soup itself, as topping fresh strawberries are of course preferable.
Danish tykmælk and buttermilk – I think a cold buttermilk soup made on egg yolks with danish tykmælk and buttermilk will be absolutely perfect. It is creamy and delicious while being fresh and having a natural acidity. Danish tykmælk is not a type of dairy you see in other countries though, so if you live in a place where you can not get tykmælk, then you can substitute it with plain yogurt 3.5% fat. The taste will still be great.
Lemon – You can flavor your cold buttermilk soup with lemon zest and lemon juice. It gives a nice taste. Of course, how much you need depends a lot on the strawberries you use and how sweet they are. You have to start with a little, and taste before you add more.
How to make cold strawberry buttermilk soup?
Cold buttermilk soup is one of the easiest desserts to make.
The first thing you need to do is whisk the egg yolks together with the sugar.
Then add vanilla, buttermilk, and tykmælk, and finally blend strawberries and pour the pureed strawberries into the soup. I also love to add a little lemon zest and juice but remember to taste the soup before adding too much lemon.
The buttermilk soup is served with homemade kammerjunkere and fresh strawberries.
Find the full recipe further down this page.
Frequently asked questions
The finished cold buttermilk soup should be stored in the refrigerator until it is to be eaten. It can stay in the fridge for a minimum of 2-3 days.
Yes, you can substitute strawberries with raspberries, blackberries, or any kind of berries you like.
This dish is typically a dessert served in Denmark in the summer, or sometimes on hot days, we eat it for dinner.
Traditionally cold buttermilk soup is served with danish kammerjunkere, these small double-baked biscuits. You can also add fresh strawberries or other fruit or barries.
Danish tykmælk translates to “Fat milk” and is a kind of fermented milk product. In Denmark, you can buy it in most supermarkets. It can be made at home, but it takes a couple of days to ferment the dairy. For this recipe, you can substitute it with plain yogurt with 3.5% fat to get the same creamy texture. Maybe you need to add a little extra lemon to get the right acidity.
Other Danish recipes you might like
- Danish kammerjunkere (double-baked biscuits)
- Danish vanilla cream pudding (fløderand)
- Danish choux buns (vandbakkelser)
- Danish red berry pudding (rødgrød med fløde)
- Danish lemon mousse – Citronfromage
Recipe for cold buttermilk soup with strawberries
Here you get our best recipe for a fresh and delicious summer cold buttermilk soup with pureed strawberries. We traditionally serve it with kammerjunkere and fresh strawberries on top, but you can of course choose which type of topping you want. Granola, roasted oatmeal or various delicious summer berries are also a good topping on cold strawberry buttermilk soup.
We hope that you will try out the recipe, and serve cold strawberry buttermilk soup for your family. It is a classic Danish dessert, which both kids and adults love.
Cold strawberry buttermilk soup (strawberry koldskål)
Ingredients
- 250 g strawberries fresh or thawed
- 2 egg yolks
- 40 g sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla paste
- ½ l tykmælk or plain yogurt 3.5% fat
- ½ l buttermilk
- ½ lemon juice + zest
For serving:
- Kammerjunkere
- Fresh strawberries
Instructions
- Put the strawberries in a blender, and blend them to a fine puree.
- Whisk egg yolks and sugar together until white and fluffy.
- Add the vanilla paste, buttermilk, and tykmælk to the eggnog (tykmælk can be substituted with plain yogurt 3.5% fat). Then add the strawberry puree and stir it all together into an even mixture.
- Finely grate the lemon zest and squeeze out the juice. Gradually add lemon zest and juice while tasting. How much you need depends on how sweet the strawberries are, so taste it.
- When you are satisfied with the taste, the cold strawberry buttermilk soup is ready to serve. Cold buttermilk soup should be stored in the refrigerator until it is to be served cold.
- Serve with danish kammerjunkere and fresh strawberries or topping of your choice.
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Note: This recipe is a translation of our danish recipe “Jordbærkoldskål” which can be found on our danish food blog.
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