Orange Sorbet, having the color of the sun, is a perfect antidote to beat the summer heat! Its a great recipe to have in your recipe collection for this summer. Officially, the swimming pools have opened today, it being Memorial Day over here, so time to look out for cooling recipes that are quick to make and yum to eat!
Memorial Day is also a day of remembering veterans who have served the USA in its wars. Personally I would like to remember a neighbor of mine in NJ, who was a major inspiration for me to get serious about coming out with a cookbook or something related to cooking. We were having conversations on how many recipes to include in the cookbook and so on and so forth, and then we moved away from there. She recently passed away after fighting bravely against cancer. She was one of the first ones, who I asked to critique my blog, and I was encouraged to receive a thumbs up from her for the voice in my writing! Rest in peace Elizabeth Zibman, and your opinion mattered to me a lot as you were a creative writer and a professor at Rutgers! Your confidence in me, helped me take a step towards creating this blog.
This recipe has been adapted from myrecipes.com as it seemed easy enough for my daughter to make it for her class picnic. The kids thoroughly enjoyed it in the 85 degrees weather, though we should have planned to make it earlier, for it to have a more firmer consistency. The picture in this image was after two days of freezing the same!.
The taste feels like frozen orange-lime juice and its quite nice to have a scoop of it in the mid-afternoon to beat the heat, and replace the normal tea break with a sorbet break! Personally I relish the sorbets more, as I have a soft corner for snow cones and ice golas. So this is a cool, fresh juice based, healthy alternative to the syrup based dessert. I truly liked the size, flavor, color and cooling aspect of this high vitamin C delicious dessert, and will be made more often in summer!
Wishing everyone a great Memorial Day and happy memories of the loved ones gone too soon!
Orange Sorbet
Recipe makes 2 servings for about 24 people
Prep time : 30 min
Cooking time : 10 min
Chilling time : 48 hours
Ingredients
- 15 medium-big size navel oranges
- 4 cups water
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice (about 2 medium)
- Grated orange rind (optional)
- Mint sprigs (optional)
Method
- Using a vegetable peeler, lightly remove rind from 1 orange. Cut rind into 1 x ¼-inch-thick strips and grind it a bit in a mortar pestle. This would result into a roughly a tbsp of rind.
- Peel the oranges and extract juices from them, roughly resulting in about 6 cups of orange juice.
- Combine water and sugar in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Add rind strips to pan. Reduce heat; simmer for 8-10 minutes. Strain sugar mixture through a sieve over a bowl, reserving liquid; discard solids. Cool completely.
- Add orange juice and lemon juice to sugar mixture; stir well.
- Pour mixture into the freezer can of a tabletop ice-cream freezer; freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions.
- Spoon sorbet into a freezer-safe container; cover and freeze for about 2 days until firm.
- Scoop the sorbet and garnish with mint sprigs, if desired and add grated rind as topping if so desired. Here, we did not go with either of them.
Tips
You can try this with ready orange juice in the market, but in that case, reduce the water quantity by a cup and and use two cups of sugar. There might be a slight taste variation, but will prove to be a much quicker way of going about it. Also taste the sugar content before freezing.
Instinct Factor
If you see the juice underneath the top layer, freeze some more.
When you scoop the sorbet, leave it out for 5-7 minutes room temperature, so that it softens a bit for you to scoop nice rounds. Otherwise it will have a brittle crunch feel. And to get perfect rounds, scrape 3-4 times over to make one nice round scoop of sorbet! After all looks do matter when serving!!
Feel Factor
Cool. colorful, healthy, beat the heat, with this easy sorbet recipe, that even a teenager can make! So how about having some sorbet stands this summer instead of the lemonade stands, and earn some good pocket money! Colorful sprigs of mint and orange rind will give additional edge to this delicious cool recipe! Any snow cone and Ice Gola lovers, please make a note of this wonderful sorbet and enjoy the summer!
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