Simple Sorbet

It is berry season and here is a great recipe for them!


 All you need is fruit, cream, sugar, and frozen juice concentrate.









The original recipe calls for buttermilk, and you can use that if you want to cut the calories, but I didn't like it as much.  The unused portion of buttermilk goes bad really quickly too, so if you buy some make sure to use it within a day of opening the carton.

For best results, use very cold ingredients.

Start with ~3 cups of berries. Puree in blender or food processor.


Stir well with 1/3c sugar, 1 can frozen juice concentrate, and 1/3c half&half or lite cream.

Chill in freezer for about an hour.






If you have an ice-cream maker, process the mixture for about 20 minutes.  The texture will be better, but if you don't have one just skip this step.




Spoon into paper cups.  Cover with plastic wrap and freeze for at least 4 hours.


There are lots of combos to try.  My favorite so far is strawberries with orange juice concentrate. (try adding a banana!).






Strawberries with limeade concentrate was quite good also, and blueberries with lemonade concentrate got very high ratings from the testing group.


 Peaches might work too but I haven't tried them yet...
   



 Blackberries will be ready to pick soon, so I'm going to try them with lemonade or maybe cherry punch concentrate.  Blackberries have a lot of seeds and some fiberous stuff in the middles, so strain the puree through a fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth before mixing with other ingredients.