Strawberry Sorbet Cooking Recipe – Sorbetto Alla Fragola Recipe
Serves 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Chilling time: 2 hours
Ingredients
- 1 cup (7 oz./200 g) superfine sugar
- Scant 1 cup (200 ml) milk
- 2 ½ cups (14 oz./400 g) ripe strawberries (or peaches, apricots, bananas, etc.)
- 1 egg white, stiffly beaten
Equipment
- 1 ice cream maker or 1 ice cream churn
Preparation Method
- Add the sugar to the milk and heat until dissolved. Chill.
- Wash the strawberries, remove the stalks, and puree them in a blender.
- Sieve to remove some of the pips.
- Mix the strawberries with the chilled milk.
- Refrigerate for approximately 2 hours.
- Pour the mixture into an ice-cream maker and switch on.
- When the mixture begins to solidify, add the egg white and continue churning until fully frozen.
- Keep in an ice tray in the freezer.
Chefs notes
You can add a few finely chopped basil leaves to the mixture to give it a fresh and original flavor, or drizzle over some balsamic vinegar reduction when serving.
To make an alcohol-based sorbet, mix 2 cups (14 oz./400 g) of sugar with 12/s cups (400 ml) of water and put it into an ice cream maker or churn. Once the mixture begins to solidify, add 8 tablespoons of the desired alcohol (rum, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, vodka, etc.) and 1 egg white beaten with 2 tablespoons of sugar until stiff.
Almond Granita Cooking Recipe – Granita Di Mandorla Recipe
Serves 6
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Chilling time: 2 hours
Ingredients
- 1 ⅔ cups (12 oz./300 g) almond paste
- ½ cup (3 oz./100 g) granulated sugar
- 4 cups (1 liter) lukewarm mineral water
- 2 tablespoons (10 g) ground almonds
Equipment
- 1 ice-cream maker or 1 ice-cream churn
Cooking Method
- Dissolve the almond paste and sugar in the lukewarm water (1).
- Add the ground almonds (2), mix with a stick blender, and churn in the ice-cream maker (3) according to the manufacturer’s directions.
- Serve immediately for the best result (4).
- You can keep the granita in the freezer, but bear in mind that it will tend to harden.
Did you know?
Granita is very popular in Sicily, where homemade versions with different flavors are found everywhere: coffee, lemon, mint, fig, blackberry, watermelon, etc.
The Sicilians have it for breakfast with a sweet brioche and sometimes with whipped cream too.
