Ice Cream Sherbet is an extraordinary delicacy that has appeared in eastern countries. It was prepared only for special occasions: the reception of high-ranking guests, as a dessert at a celebration or wedding.
At the present time, ice cream sorbet can be purchased at any supermarket or store, but true connoisseurs of home cooking and lovers of sweets can make this delicacy in home cooking.
Ice cream-sorbet has a fairly large range of types and flavors, as it can be prepared from a variety of berries, fruits, mixing and combining them with chocolate, vanilla, nuts, mint, and getting more and more new flavors.
A simple cooking technology does not require a special ice cream maker, which makes it easy to prepare sherbet at home.
Ice Cream Sherbet: A Simple Recipe at Home
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of frozen berries (pitted cherries, raspberries, strawberries, or any other berry, to your taste);
- Granulated sugar - 200 grams, or one glass;
- 50 ml of fat and very thick cream;
- 1 tablespoon honey;
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
The cooking time for ice cream sorbet as a whole will take about 8 hours, after which you can enjoy a real delicacy, which is very light and low-calorie. Calorie ice cream sorbet is 122.14 kcal.
Cooking:
- Initially, you need to prepare berries for sherbet. If you took strawberries, then it should be thoroughly washed, like any other berry. Cut into quarters and put in a container, closing it on top with cling film, you can simply cellophane bag and put it in the freezer for freezing.
- While the berries are frozen in the freezer, it is necessary to prepare a creamy jelly for further sherbet. To do this, mix the sugar and cream in a saucepan and put the mixture on a slow fire until boiling. When the sugar is well dissolved in the cream, add honey and lemon juice to the mixture. Boil the mixture for 2 minutes, stirring regularly.
- The resulting mixture should be cooled to room temperature, it may take about 2 hours.
- By the time the cream mixture has cooled, the prepared berries should freeze completely in the freezer. Now you can proceed to the next stage of making water ice.
- Place the berries in the blender bowl, dip the creamy mass there and carefully beat all the ingredients at the maximum speed of the blender until a homogeneous mass is formed. The resulting mixture must be decomposed into glass goblets or plastic containers suitable for freezing. You can decorate the sorbet from above with a couple of berries, chocolate chips, or chopped nuts.
- Send ice cream for 5 hours in the freezer for complete freezing.
Peppermint Chocolate Banana Sorbet
This type of ice cream is an unusually tasty dessert, which can also be easily prepared in the home cooking.
For cooking you will need:
- 300 grams of frozen bananas;
- 60 grams of condensed whole milk;
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder;
- 6 leaves of fresh mint, which must be thoroughly rinsed and dried.
Cooking process:
- Put frozen bananas on the bottom of a cup of blender, add condensed milk, cocoa powder and mint leaves.
- Stir all the blender until the mixture is smooth in consistency.
- Put the ice cream in portion cups, you can use a regular food container for storing food.
- Carefully lay a few circles of bananas and a couple of mint leaves on top of the sorbet - this will serve as an ornament. Place the ice cream sorbet in the freezer for 5-6 hours to freeze.
- After 6 hours, get ready-made ice cream from the freezer and you can please yourself and your loved ones with an extraordinary chocolate-banana dessert.
Strawberry-basil sherbet
It is believed that strawberries can not be combined with basil, especially in dessert dishes.
But, precisely because of this combination of incompatible components, you can cook in your kitchen an extraordinary strawberry-basil sherbet.
To prepare this type of ice cream will need the following ingredients:
- 300 grams of frozen strawberries;
- 60 grams of whole condensed milk;
- 4 leaves of fresh basil.
If you do not tolerate basil for any reason, you can always replace it with fresh mint leaves. But the very combination of strawberries with basil can create an extraordinary taste and aroma of ice cream dessert, which you will remember for a long time.
Cooking process:
- The first step is to place the strawberries in the bowl of the blender, adding there condensed whole milk and fresh basil leaves.
- All components must be mixed in a blender at the very maximum speed of the blender. If an immersion blender is used to make sherbet, then before preparing the sherbet, it is necessary to defrost the fruit a bit so that the blender can cope with it.
- As soon as a homogeneous mixture is obtained, it can be laid out in glass glasses or portioned glasses, which are suitable for freezing.
- Putting ice cream in cups, you can decorate it, putting on top a couple of strawberries and a leaf of basil. After that, the ice cream should be removed in the freezer for full curing for 5-6 hours. Then you can use the dessert for its intended purpose.
Useful tips
- Before serving, it is recommended to get the water ice from the freezer and hold it at room temperature for 5-6 minutes. During this short period of time, it slightly dims, becomes more appetizing, and it will be much easier and more pleasant to eat.
- In order to give the dessert a touch of freshness, you can use orange, kiwi or slices of mandarins as the main ingredient.
- All red berries go well with chocolate, so you can experiment a bit in your kitchen.
- If you decide to add vanilla to the sorbet, it is better to use fruits such as peaches or pears.
- It is best to store the already prepared sherbet in a closed container or a portion cup with a tight lid.
- Another important tip: sugar should not be added to all types of sherbet, since the addition of sugar depends on the sweetness of the berries or fruits from which the dessert will be prepared. For example, raspberry sorbet is prepared without the addition of granulated sugar, since raspberry is a fairly self-sufficient berry that does not require additional sweeteners.
Cool dessert in the form of ice cream-sorbet will be an unusual treat for both your relatives and friends, and for friends. Cook in your kitchen such wonderful treats, experiment with different berries, fruits and enjoy the new flavors of delicacy.
And another original recipe for ice cream-sorbet is in the next video.
