Sorbet is a wonderful refreshing dessert, combining the tenderness of ice cream and the juicy taste of fruits and berries. This gourmet dish, included in the menu of many restaurants, can be prepared at home - the sorbet recipe is not so complicated. In addition, its taste can be almost anything - you can choose fruits or berries to your taste, try new combinations and experiment with additives. One way or another, learning to cook it is definitely worth it.
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Strawberry and Lemon Sorbet Recipe
Perhaps this is one of the most popular classic options. It is refreshing (thanks to the lemon taste), but also quite sweet, because this sorbet is strawberry. The recipe involves the use of three hundred grams of strawberries, one lemon, seventy-five grams of sugar and two stalks of fresh mint. Rinse and peel the strawberries from the stalks and sepals. Cut into slices a few millimeters thick, leaving a couple of berries to decorate the finished dessert. Put the prepared berries in a bowl or stewpan, cover with sugar. Add some water and lemon juice. Wait a quarter of an hour - the berries should absorb the sugar and put the juice in, then beat with a blender until a smooth consistency. Strain the finished berry puree through a sieve, if you want to achieve the most creamy texture. In general, you can not do this. Pour the mixture into a large bowl so that it covers the bottom with a thin layer. Put in the freezer for an hour, then beat with a whisk or a fork. This is necessary in order to get a more delicate and uniform strawberry-lemon sorbet. The recipe advises mixing the mass at least three times. After that, you can leave the dish alone for twelve hours.
Before serving it to the table, from a sorbet it is necessary to form balls with a tablespoon, which should be decorated with strawberries and fresh mint.
Banana Sorbet Recipe
A great option for cases where urgent disposal of soft bananas is needed. To prepare this sorbet recipe, take three hundred grams of banana puree, a tablespoon of sugar syrup, seventy grams of cane sugar, one hundred and fifty grams of boiled water, several berries of currants and a couple of leaves of mint. Mix bananas, water and sugar with syrup. Boil over low heat, gently stirring. After boiling, pour the mass into molds and send to the refrigerator. Stir the dessert periodically so that it hardens without pieces of ice. When the mixture has finally thickened, remove it from the refrigerator and transfer it to beautiful glasses or sockets.
Garnish with currant berries and fresh mint leaves before serving.
Watermelon Sorbet Recipe
To prepare this dessert, you will need seven hundred and fifty grams of watermelon, two hundred grams of sugar, lemon and a glass of water. Peel the watermelon and cut into slices, add lemon juice and chop with a blender. Boil water with sugar, wait for cooling and add syrup to mashed watermelon. Send the mixture to the freezer and wait for it to fully thicken, mixing thoroughly every hour. Serve in glasses with mint leaves as a decoration.