Blåbärssoppa

{{Short description|Nordic soup made from bilberries}}

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{{Infobox food

| name = Blueberry soup

| image = Blåbärssoppa.jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Cup of blueberry soup

| alternate_name = Bilberry soup

| region = Nordics

| associated_cuisine = Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic cuisine

| creator =

| type = Fruit soup

| served = Cold or Hot

| main_ingredient = Bilberries, sugar, water, potato starch

| similar_dish = Krentjebrij, kissel

}}

{{lang|sv|Blåbärssoppa}} (Swedish, blueberry or more accurately bilberry soup, {{langx|fi|mustikkakeitto}} {{IPA|fi|ˈmustikːɑˌkei̯tːo|}}, {{langx|is|bláberjasúpa}}) is a Nordic fruit soup made from bilberries, which can be served cold or hot. It is sweet and contains starch, which gives it a fairly thick consistency. It is served either as soup, often together with porridge, or as a drink.

In the United States, Swedish blåbärssoppa is imported and sold under the trade name Blåbär. Blueberry soup can be home-made from bilberries, sugar, water and potato starch,[http://www.vasaloparen.se/food_article.jsp?d_id=485 Blåbärssoppa recipe] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050326234650/http://www.vasaloparen.se/food_article.jsp?d_id=485 |date=March 26, 2005 }} {{in lang|sv}} or it can be bought ready-made or in powdered form, to mix with water.

The Swedish word for bilberry, blåbär, literally means 'blueberry', but the beverage is not made from the North American blueberry (section Cyanococcus of the genus Vaccinium), but from the related but distinct bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus, which grows in the wild throughout Scandinavia and other parts of Europe.