Lime Sorbet Recipes

Steps:

• In medium saucepan over medium heat, bring the water, sugar, and lime juice to a simmer.
• Cover the pan, lower the heat slightly, and cook for about 3 minutes, until the sugar is dissolved.
• Remove from the heat and cool the mixture to room temperature.
• Stir in the lime zest.
• Chill the mixture for 2 hours.
• Freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Steps:

• Combine sugar, preserves and 1 cup of the soda in a medium saucepan and stir over low heat until sugar and preserves are melted. Add citrus juice and zest. Stir in the remaining soda, move to a clean, lidded container and chill thoroughly, 2 to 3 hours.
• Turn mixture in ice cream maker per maker's instructions or until mixture reaches the consistency of a firm slush. Return mixture to lidded container and harden in freezer 1 hour before serving.
• If sorbet is to be held frozen for longer than 2 hours, move from freezer to refrigerator for about half an hour before serving. If you'd like a more assertive sorbet, double the amount of citrus zest.

Steps:

• Line a baking sheet with plastic wrap.
• Wash limes and halve lengthwise. Working over a bowl to catch juices, with a small sharp knife cut between flesh and pith to loosen flesh and with a spoon scoop out flesh in 1 piece. Into bowl squeeze juice from lime flesh with hands and discard membranes. Scrape any remaining membranes and juice from lime halves into bowl. Pour lime juice through a sieve into a measuring cup to measure 1 cup, discarding membranes. Put lime shells on baking sheet and freeze while making sorbet.
• In a bowl stir together 1 cup lime juice, syrup, and water and freeze in an ice-cream maker. Scoop sorbet into frozen shells, smoothing surfaces so they are level. Freeze filled lime shells at least 6 hours, or until frozen hard. Frozen sorbets in shells may be wrapped individually in plastic wrap and kept in freezer 1 week.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Place halved limes, sugar, vanilla bean scrapings, and water in a roasting pan and stir.
• Place in the oven and roast, stirring occasionally until the edges of the limes start to caramelize about 30 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and allow to cool to room temperature.
• Place a strainer over a bowl of a food processor and squeeze the juice from the limes then strain the roasting pan juices into the food processor bowl.
• Roughly chop 1 lime half, add it to the food processor, and puree until smooth. Strain the puree into a bowl and stir in the 2 cups water, 2 cups fresh lime juice, and sugar, to taste. Chill and freeze in an ice cream maker according to manufacturers' instructions.

Steps:

• Peel off lime zest using a vegetable peeler to create long strands.
• Combine confectioners' sugar, water, and lime zest in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Refrigerate simple syrup until completely cold, about 1 hour. Remove and discard lime zest and stir in rum.
• Place mango in a blender; blend until pureed. Chill in the refrigerator.
• Combine mango puree and chilled simple syrup in an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions until it reaches soft-serve consistency, about 20 minutes. Transfer sorbet to an airtight container and freeze until firm, about 2 hours.

Steps:

• In a small saucepan combine the sugar and 1 cup water, bring the mixture to a boil, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, and remove the pan from the heat. Let the syrup cool. In a blender purée the mint with the syrup, stir in the lime juice, and in a bowl chill the mixture, covered, for 1 hour, or until it is cold. Freeze the mixture in an ice-cream freezer according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve gelatin and sugar in boiling water. Add lemon juice and zest. Whisk in milk. Pour into an ungreased 9-in. square pan. Cover and freeze for 2 hours., Transfer to a large bowl; beat for 2 minutes. Return to pan. Cover and freeze for 1 hour; stir. , Freeze 1 hour longer or until firm. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Combine coconut water and sugar in small saucepan over low heat; stir until sugar dissolves.
• Remove from heat, and allow to cool completely.
• Stir in the coconut milk and lime juice; cover and refrigerate until cold.
• Stir the chilled mixture, then freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer’s instructions.
• For a firmer sorbet, transfer to freezer-safe container, and freeze at least 2 hours.

Steps:

• Drain the syrup from two cans of lychees into a small pan. Add the sugar and dissolve over a gentle heat. Bring to the boil for 1 min.
• Blitz the drained lychees in a food processor until very finely chopped. Pour in the lime juice and syrup with the blade still whirring - don't worry if the mix isn't perfectly smooth at this point. Tip into a 1-litre container and freeze for at least 6 hrs until solid.
• Break up the frozen mix, then return to the bowl of the processor. Tip in the egg white and whizz until thick, pale and smooth. Add zest from 1 lime. Return to the container and freeze again, ideally overnight. Serve in scoops with remaining lychees scattered with a remaining zest.

Steps:

• Heat 250ml water, the sugar and the lemon peel in a small pan until the sugar has dissolved then bring the mixture to the boil. Cook for 3 mins then turn off the heat and leave to cool. Pick out the lemon peel and discard. Measure out 100ml of lemon juice and add to the sugar mixture along with the vodka if using.
• Pour into a freezer box and freeze for 1hr 30 mins then mix up with a whisk to break up and incorporate the ice crystals (which will be starting to form at the edges) before returning to the freezer.
• Keep mixing the sorbet once an hour for 4 hours to break up the ice crystals. Stop mixing when firm but still scoopable then store in the freezer for up to 1 month. Serve scoops of sorbet decorated with a few curls of lemon zest.

Steps:

• In a saucepan over medium heat combine first 3 ingredients (water to zest) and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool 5 minutes. Discard zest and stir in lime juice.
• Puree 1 cup of the syrup with 3 1/2 cups of strawberries in food processor or blender. Stir mixture into remaining syrup. Pour mixture through a sieve into a medium bowl and discard solids. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight.
• Transfer mixture to ice cream maker and process following manufacturer's directions and then transfer sorbet to freezer container and freeze until firm (2-6 hours).
• To serve, slice remaining strawberries and scoop sorbet into 8 dessert dishes and top with sliced strawberries.