Grapefruit soup is an easy 1 ingredient (mono) meal you can have for a breakfast or a snack. It’s 80/10/10 friendly and fat free. They key is to use very sweet juicy grapefruits. My favourite are red grapefruits. Right now we’re in Texas for Christmas, so we are using the Texas Star Grapefruits here. They’re quite good. I wouldn’t suggest using this recipe for more sour white grapefruits.
My friend made this for me and I photographed him doing so, so you can easily see how to get an easy to eat grapefruit meal with no seeds or excess peel or skins.
For this recipe I used 3 grapefruits. 2 to cut into chunks and 1 to juice over the chunks.
(Fat Free Raw Vegan) Grapefruit Soup
Using a sharp knife, cut off both ends of the grapefruit so you can see the flesh inside. Cut away enough that you don’t have any white pith or peel left.
Flip the grapefruit onto one of the cut ends and start cutting off the sides of the peel and pith all the way around.
Now cut the grapefruit into 3 slices and remove any seeds you see.
Continue cutting into slices.
Stand up the centre piece and cut around the middle, like you would the core of an apple. Discard this piece.
Line up your slices and now cut into bite sized chunks.
Your first grapefruit is done. Continue the same process with the second grapefruit and place the pieces into a bowl.
Slice the 3rd grapefruit in half. Remove the seeds.
Using a knife or a citrus reamer squeeze the grapefruit and turn to release the juice. Alternatively you can use a citrus juicer.
Continue juicing the other side of the grapefruit.
Serve!
What do you think of this simple recipe? You can also do this with sweet oranges or pineapple. The key is to use sweet ripe fruit. Makes sure to eat this right away as the fresh juice will oxidize and go sour if you leave it out or in the fridge for a few days.
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Thanks for the great intention and making people better!
I think it is super simple, too much to call it a soup or recipe.
I like my grapefruit done in ”supremes”so there is no little skins at all.You can search it on youtube, it’s quite simple to make supremes.
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That’s why it’s free. 80/10/10 recipes are very simple, and often people want to eat 1 ingredient only.
Just got a bunch of pummelo fruits from the mark down rack. They’re so much sweeter than grapefruit, it will be like a dessert soup 🙂
I love pomelo. They are a lot more work to peel but they are great if you get the sweet pink variety. I used to eat them every day in Thailand, less often here as they’re more expensive. Enjoy!
Wow, those grapefruits look exquisite! Ive had these red grapefruits laying around for actually a couple weeks now and will try this. They always look so nice in the store but I have never really used em much. Same thing with apples which I have started to use in my smoothies and breakfast fruit salads. Thanks for your great recipes and photos and for inspiring me to try different things (but from a realistic perspective). You rock Veronica.
Brian G