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Do you have a favorite recipe for every occasion? You do! Well here's your chance to share them with our readers.
Do you have a favorite recipe for every occasion? You do! Well here's your chance to share them with our readers.
Pudding and Dessert Recipes
Orange Sorbet Recipe
By: Kit Heathcock (2009-05-29)
A dessert that kids like, adults appreciate and which is full of vitamins? Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it! But this orange sorbet is also easy to make and can be kept in the freezer as an emergency standby for any time guests arrive unexpectedly.
The recipe is very simple, even simpler if you have a machine to squeeze the oranges for you, and doesn’t need anything more doing to it once it’s in the freezer. It can also be made with tangerines or clementines and served it in their scooped out skins, which is a more fiddly business but looks very pretty and is great for dinner parties or special celebrations.
Orange Sorbet Recipe
20 smallish oranges
juice of half a lemon
100ml/ ½ cup water
icing sugar (if needed to sweeten)
Syrup
250ml/ 1 cup sugar
150 ml/ 2/3 cup water
juice of ¼ lemon
Make the syrup by heating the syrup ingredients over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved and it looks clear. Boil for 2-3 minutes, then leave to cool, while you prepare the rest.
Wash half the oranges well, then grate their zest finely. Squeeze the juice from all of the oranges and the half lemon. Mix in the water and cooled syrup and taste to see if any more sugar is needed. Add water, lemon juice or sugar until you get the right intensity and sweetness, remembering that frozen desserts need a little extra sweetness to bring out the flavour. Freeze until firm.
The sorbet keeps well and is even better a week or a month after making, so when oranges are cheap at the end of winter make double quantities of this recipe so that it will last you through the summer! The flavour is quite intense, so a small serving of the sorbet goes a long way and it will liven up plain desserts and tone down rich ones.
Serve it as an accompaniment to a rich chocolate dessert, where the flavours will complement each other and the fresh orange offsets the rich cloying texture of the chocolate. Or serve a scoop of orange sorbet with one of a plain creamy ice cream and some almond biscuits to dip into it.
