Summer Fruit Sorbet With Rose Geranium
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This delightful summer fruit sorbet infused with fragrant rose geranium leaves is a summer country garden on a plate, sheer heaven!
Why you’ll love this sorbet recipe
- This sorbet is super easy to make
- It’s a great way to iuse up extra summer berries – zero waste!
- Totally natural and deliciously fresh, these flavours are amazing
When the shops are full of summer fruit you can be tempted to over-buy while full of good intentions to use it all up and waste not a bite. However, once things get past the great white wall of the fridge they can so easily be forgotten and end up as wasted food in the trash can. Money and goodness down the drain.
Making a summer fruit sorbet is a great way to use your fruit and store in the freezer to eat at a later date. It is so quick and easy to make, you’ll wonder why you ever bought store-bought ice-cream and sorbet again.
Ingredients for summer fruit sorbet
- 450g/1 lb mixed strawberries (hulled) and raspberries
- 100g/3 1/2 oz sugar
- juice, flesh and zest of 1 orange
- 3 rose geranium leaves
Ingredient alternatives
You can use any summer berries you have for this recipe. Red or white currants work really well. Just remember if using darker berries like blackcurrants or blackberries your sorbet will be much darker in colour.
How to make summer fruit sorbet
- Mix together the berries in a plastic container and add the flesh, juice and zest of the orange.
- Stir in the sugar.
- Add the 3 rose geranium leaves and make sure they are covered by the juice/berry mixture.
- Cover the box and leave in the fridge overnight for the flavours to develop.
- Next day remove the geranium leaves and disscard.
- Pour the chilled mixture into an ice-cream machine and process.
- Freeze.
Can you make this without an ice-cream maker?
Yes. If you don’t have an ice cream machine just pop it in the freezer for 2 hours, remove and fork around to break up ice crystals and put back in the freezer. Do this again an hour later and then freeze for 2 hours.
How long will this sorbet keep?
This will keep in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Looking for more super easy sorbets to make at home? Then check these out before you go;
Nectarine and chamomile sorbet
4 ingredient clementine sorbet
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Summer Fruit Sorbet With Rose Geranium
Ingredients
- 450 g strawberries and raspberries
- 100 g sugar
- 1 orange flesh and zest
- 3 rose geranium leaves
Instructions
- Mix together the berries in a plastic container and add the flesh, juice and zest of the orange.
- Stir in the sugar.
- Add the 3 rose geranium leaves and make sure they are covered by the juice/berry mixture.
- Cover the box and leave in the fridge overnight for the flavours to develop.
- Next day remove the geranium leaves and disscard.
- Pour the chilled mixture into an icecream machine and process.
- Freeze.
- Or if you don’t have an ice cream machine just pop it in the freezer for 2 hours, remove and fork around to break up ice crystals and put back in the freezer. Do this again an hour later and then freeze for 2 hours.