lemon, lime and peppermint sorbet
dessert recipes | serves 4
Place the sugar and water in a pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a while. Zest and squeeze your limes and lemons and chop your peppermint. Mix everything together in a plastic or earthenware container and place in the freezer.
Generally a sorbet takes 2 hours to set. Try to stir it around every 30 minutes if you remember
Never been a fan of booze in deserts tho, lol
I done about 6 different sorbets but never fail with lemon, lime and orange.
I do cheat a bit and put some orange juice in. (only fresh 100%orange)
Jamie, I got mint the other day and since it's been so good weather lately I put it in my garden, think it will be ok?
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My boyfriend will love it when he gets home from a long day at work. :)
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its summer here in new zealand and your sorbet sounds perfect after a hot summer's day! sorry to be yet another asking the same question - but where do you get peppermint from? can it be substituted with common garden variety mint?
thanks heaps.
gidget
Yum!
I love it Vry much, Thx Jamie.
Keep up the good work
Thanks and sorry again for being stupid!
About 3 months ago, I bought your book (Jamie at Home - cook your way to the good life), and I must say it's one of the best cooking books I have ever seen. With such a well-treated pages, images (except for the dead rabbits and poor chicken, thought ;) ), everything. So, before a finally start my comment, I just wanted to congratulate you for the book, by saying it's already included on my cooking instruments!
My comment is about the plumb sorbet on that book. I actually have this terrible crush for blueberries, so, I put them instead of your plumbs, and, by not having any gin available, I used that ron with lemon (used on cuba libre).. So, instead of the orange zest, I decided to make it lima zest, once there was already lemon on the ron. Ok, now you would be mad once I changed all your recipe, for a silly crush on the berries. But I must say, that I followed all your logic on the recipe, so, still, it's your recipe, with a tiny slip. :) It turned out to be absolutely finished about 5 minutes after I placed our blueberry sorbet on the table!
So, thanks again, mr. Oliver! You actually made me cook my way to the good life!
Best wishes,
Julia.
I don't realize that its so easy to make a sorbet
Thanks Jamie
Love Barbie S