Sorbet is a wonderful dessert that will fill the winter tea with summer warmth and sun. The traditional dish is based on grated and chilled strawberries with sugar. It is quite possible to freeze this dessert on your own. In addition to the excellent taste and vitamins that have been preserved since the summer, natural sorbet will successfully replace less useful store ice cream.
How to cook
Almost all varieties of strawberries and strawberries are suitable for preparing sorbet . Berries must be thoroughly washed and must be dried. It is best to chop strawberries with a conventional meat grinder, then the pulp will remain juicy. But a blender or combine will turn beautiful berries into a shapeless slurry and knock out all the juice from them, which will later become ice. In softened fruits you need to add sugar. The approximate proportion is 300-500 grams per kilogram of strawberries. But the amount of sugar depends on the variety of berries: the sweeter they are, the less it is needed. You can’t do without it at all, it helps the sorbet keep its shape and does not allow the juice to completely crystallize. In the resulting mass, you need to add a little lemon juice - this will decorate the taste and additionally enrich with vitamins. The sorbet must be allowed to stand so that the ingredients dissolve and soak each other. Then strawberries with sugar for the winter will be sweet and juicy. Regular or brown sugar is suitable for this dish . You can still use vanilla. To make it, put a vanilla stick in the jar of sugar for several days.
How to store
Strawberries with sugar, which can be frozen in portioned vessels, are perfectly stored in the freezer all winter. Of course, this preparation should not be allowed to melt, and in the case of a prolonged blackout, the dessert can seriously suffer. In winter, it can be saved by moving it to the balcony until the refrigerator is restored.
How and with what to file
Before serving, you need to let the sorbet melt a little, so that you can put it in a bowl with an ice cream spoon. Some chefs add dry champagne, vermouth, vodka to the sorbet, but it is quite possible to make this dessert non-alcoholic. Strawberries, grated with sugar, goes well with caramel, chocolate icing, creamy ice cream, condensed milk. Sorbet balls can be sprinkled with almond crisps, chopped nuts, cocoa, coconut flakes. Fresh berries are also good with it. However, if these same balls did not work out - it’s okay. The wonderful taste of sorbet compensates for its external flaws. And you can decorate a soft pink dessert with sprigs of mint.
The benefits of strawberry sorbet
A healthy, rich in vitamins (especially C) berry is famous for its properties. In addition, strawberries with sugar, which is very easy to freeze, will delight and cheer up all winter, recalling the summer.
Other varieties of sorbet. How to replace strawberries?
If there is no strawberry, other fruits can be frozen with sugar: melon, peach, nectarine, blackcurrant, blackberry. And it’s best to make several options to enjoy a variety of healthy desserts all winter.