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Sorbet is a dessert made from juice or puree made from fruits or berries. In the classic version of preparation, the fruit and berry mass is completely frozen in the freezer and served in bowls like ice cream. If it is not completely frozen, then it can be used as a cold refreshing drink. It is not difficult to prepare a dessert, for example, any housewife can prepare a blackcurrant sorbet at home.
Useful properties of currant sorbet
Black currant is known as one of the most vitamin and even medicinal berries in folk medicine. Especially there is a lot of ascorbic acid in it, more is contained only in rose hips. Only 2 dozen fruits are enough to replenish the body's daily need for this substance. Since the berries are not subjected to heat treatment, all vitamins in them are completely preserved. This is the undoubted advantage of homemade sorbet.
Due to the high content of vitamins, it is useful to use it in spring and autumn. Black currant contains valuable organic acids, essential oils, phytoncides, and mineral elements.
If you eat black currant quite often, then it will increase the hemoglobin content, tones the body, and normalizes metabolism. Berries and their juice act as a mild sedative, normalize sleep, help relieve nervous tension, and restore strength in case of physical and mental fatigue. Fresh fruits have a pronounced anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effect. Black currant supports the work of the heart, makes blood vessels elastic, stimulates brain activity, and strengthens memory.
Currant sorbet recipes at home
To prepare the sorbet, you will need fresh ripe black currant fruits, sugar and water (it is better to take well, filtered in household filters or bottled). These are the main ingredients that are included in a simple classic recipe, but you can also add other berries and fruits to the currants. Because of this, the taste and properties of the dessert will change.
Simple Blackcurrant Sorbet Recipe
The ingredients that will be needed to make sorbet according to the classic recipe at home are in the kitchen of every housewife.
You will need:
- black currant - 0.9 kg;
- granulated sugar - 0.3 kg;
- water - 1 glass;
- lemon - 0.5 pcs.
You can take less or more sugar, depending on your taste preferences.
How to cook:
- Sort the berries, peel all sepals, rinse in running water.
- Leave on for 5 minutes until it drains.
- Grind the fruits in a blender until smooth.
- Add sugar, water and half a lemon, cut into slices. Grind again in a blender.
- Place a cup with berry mass in the freezer of the refrigerator.
Freezing sorbet at home lasts at least 8-10 hours, during this time the workpiece must be stirred every hour so that it evenly freezes, becomes loose and airy.
Blackcurrant, raspberry and blueberry sorbet with wine
You will need:
- fruits of currants, raspberries and blueberries - 150 g each;
- homemade red wine - 0.5-1 cups;
- granulated sugar - 150 g.
The berries should be ripe or slightly unripe, but not overripe.
How to cook:
- Grind clean fruits in a blender.
- Add wine and sugar to them, grind again. Wine is needed so much that the mass in consistency resembles thick sour cream.
- Divide the fruits in small portions into food containers and refrigerate.
- Freeze for 8-10 hours.
When serving sorbet, you can garnish each serving with a few frozen berries.
Blackcurrant sorbet with cream
Usually, water is used to make sorbet at home, but you can replace it with fat milk or cream to improve the taste. Now the dessert will taste more like ice cream.
You will need:
- black currant berries - 200 g;
- cream - 100 ml;
- sugar - 150 g;
- a few sprigs of fresh mint or lemon balm.
How to cook:
- Sort out black berries, remove all crushed, green, spoiled.
- Rinse them in cold running water.
- Grind in a blender or grind in a meat grinder. If you want the mass to be without pieces of skins, it must be rubbed through a sieve.
- Pour cream into it and add sugar. Stir everything well.
- Put the workpiece in the freezer of the refrigerator for at least 8 hours.
Serve on small saucers or in special ice cream bowls.
Red currant sorbet
Instead of black, you can make such a redcurrant dessert. The composition and principle of preparation will not change from this.
You will need:
- berries - 300 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- water - 75 ml.
If more finished product is needed, then the amount of all ingredients should be increased proportionally.
How to cook:
- Rinse the peeled currants and dry a little, laying them on a towel.
- Grind in a blender.
- Pour cold water into the mass and add sugar.
- Stir until smooth and place in plastic containers.
- Place in the freezer for 8 hours.
When the sorbet is well frozen, you can serve it to the table.
Calorie content
The calorie content of black and red currants, like other berries, is small (only 44 kcal), but due to the use of sugar, the nutritional value of sorbet increases and averages 119 kcal per 100 g. This volume contains 27 g of carbohydrates, 0.7 g proteins and 0.1 g of fat. This is not to say that this is a high figure, so everyone can eat dessert, even those who follow the figure.
Terms and conditions of storage
Like regular ice cream, you only need to store sorbet at home in the freezer. Moreover, at a temperature not higher than -18 ° C. In the cold, he will be able to lie and not lose consumer qualities for a month and a half. If stored on a refrigerator shelf, the sorbet will melt quickly.
Conclusion
It is not difficult to prepare blackcurrant sorbet at home, not only in summer, when berries are being harvested, but also at any time of the year. To do this, you just need to process and freeze them, and shortly before cooking, defrost them a little. The taste and quality will not change from this. Canned berries or preserves are not suitable for making sorbet.
