Citrus Sorbet

Dairy Free Citrus Sorbet

I love home-made sorbet, and over the years I have experimented with many flavours, but I always come back to the Citrus Sorbet.

Ingredients:

200 g caster sugar

300 ml water

1 orange

1 lemon

2 limes

1 egg white

Method:

Wash the citrus fruit and then dry.

Grate the rind off of some of the orange, lemon and lime and place into a saucepan. Leave some to decorate the top of the sorbet if you wish.

Juice the citrus fruit and place to one side.

Place the sugar and water also into the saucepan and place onto the heat. Bring it to the boil and stir until the sugar dissolves.

Decrease the heat and continue to simmer for 2 minutes.

Take the pan off the heat and leave to cool. Once cool, mix in the juice from the fruit to the syrup and then chill in the refrigerator. I usually make the syrup the night before and continue with the recipe in the morning!

If you don’t like rind, then remove the rind from the syrup at this point.

Otherwise lightly whisk the egg white until it is just frothy. I use a food mixer for this. With the mixer still on pour the syrup into the mixer and let the egg white and syrup combine.

Once you have finished whisking you may find some of the rind is attached to your whisk. Remove this and place back into the syrup and then pour this into the ice cream machine as per instructions.

Transfer into the freezer.

Additional Notes:

I freeze my sorbet in small portions so one portion can be taken out at a time as required.

This will last up to 2 weeks in a freezer.

Remember not to waste the egg yolks. Freeze them and save them for other recipes.

Try different fruit and flavour combinations.

Instructions without Ice Cream Machine:

Freeze the syrup for 4 hours until mushy.

Then remove from freezer and beat by hand or in a food processor until smooth.

Whisk the egg white until just frothy and then mix into the sorbet mixture before freezing again for 1 hour.

I check the sorbet at this point and mix again before freezing for another 3 hours.

Equipment Used:

KitchenAid Stand Mixer

Saucepan

Ice Cream Maker

Freezer containers.