Fruit sorbet recipes

The fruit sorbets They are ideal when spring and summer arrives, since they become a good option to refresh and be able to pass the heat better, it helps us to hydrate and also provide us with the vitamins of their fruits.

One of its advantages - and that differentiates it from ice cream or cream made with milk and cream - is the absence of fat.

And is that the refreshing sorbets We can prepare them at home and have them ready at the time of taking the dessert, or to refresh ourselves in the afternoons of heat. Due to its high sugar content it is advisable not to consume them daily. A good option would be to substitute sugar for sweetener.

Below we show a series of recipes for different types of sorbets and we encourage you to prepare them very easy to make.

If you can have a sorbetera or refrigerator It will simplify the work a lot, because after passing it through it you put it directly in the freezer until the time to consume it or you can also consume it once the process in the refrigerator is over everything will depend on the characteristics of the refrigerator you have.

If you do not have a refrigerator, the process will take a little more time but with patience everything will work out, you should do the following: The mixture that we have made will go to the freezer and every hour we remove it with a spatula to avoid crystals, this operation we repeat it twice more when it is harder, we pass it through the blender, we put it back in the freezer until it is consumed.

Melon sorbet

Ingredients

1 melon of 1,5 Kg
1 lemon
200 gr. of sugar
125 ml. of water

Preparation of lemon sorbet

Cut the melon in half, remove the skin and seeds. With water and sugar we make a syrup. Put the melon in the blender and add the syrup and lemon juice, crush everything together until a puree. Put the puree in the refrigerator or sorbetera and then put it in the freezer until we are going to consume. It can be served in wide glasses and another good idea is to serve it in the skin of the melon, giving it the shape of a small bowl. For this we have reserved the skin previously emptying the pulp of the melon. We can also serve it decorated with some seeds of pomegranates, gooseberries or with balls of melon pulp.

Watermelon sorbet

Ingredients

500 gr. of watermelon
The juice of 1 lemon
125 ml. of water
A few mint leaves (to decorate)

Preparation of watermelon sorbet

Cut the watermelon into slices to remove the skin and seeds. We put all the pulp of the watermelon in the blender. In a saucepan put the water and sugar and we are preparing a syrup, let it cool. Add the syrup and lemon juice to the pulp of the watermelon and mash it all together to make a puree. We put it in the ice cream maker or sorbetera. Then we put it in the freezer. When serving, garnish with mint leaves.

Lemon sorbet

Lemon sorbet is a classic of summer, refreshes us, hydrates us, regulates our body temperature and provides us with vitamin C.

Ingredients

4 large lemons (of which we will need to obtain a glass of juice)
250 gr. of sugar
Half a liter of water
1 egg white
Grated skin of 1 lemon
1 pinch of salt
A few leaves of mint (or spearmint)
Some green cherries (to decorate)

Preparation of lemon sorbet

We cut the lemons in half, we squeeze them to get the juice, the lemon peels are reserved in the fridge and then used as containers to serve the sorbet. We make a syrup with the water and the sugar, we let it boil and when it is cold we put it with the juice and the grated skin of the lemon. We put this mixture for a while in the fridge to cool before putting it in the refrigerator or sorbetera. Once cool, put it in the refrigerator and add the egg white to the snow, put the refrigerator to work and let the mixture mount. Once the process is finished, we put the sorbet in the freezer until it is consumed. Serve it in the peels of the lemons that we have reserved in the fridge and we can decorate it with some mint leaves or some green cherries.

Peach sorbet

Ingredients

1 Kg. Of peaches
150 ml. of water
200 gr. of sugar
The juice of a lemon

Preparation of peach sorbet

We remove the skin from the peaches and the bones, we put all the pulp of the peaches in the blender to make them puree. We put the water and the sugar to the fire to prepare a syrup and when it boils we extinguish it, we add the juice of the lemon and we let it cool down. Once it has cooled we add it to the peaches and beat everything together. We pass it to the refrigerator or sorbetera and once mounted the sorbet we put it in the freezer until the time to consume it. We can present it at the time of serving it adorned with little balls or peach gizzards.

Tip: If we do not have natural peaches for being out of season we can make the peach sorbet in syrup.