Raspberry & Orange Sorbet

The raspberry season is almost here!

After a long hot day at work, nothing gives me greater pleasure than coming home to change into my 'garden clothes' and potter about in the garden.  If its a particularly hot day I like to sit on my bench with a bowl of homemade sorbet and take in the evening sun.  You can make sorbet from lots of different fruits and although conventional sorbets are purely juice, don't be afraid to get some texture in  there.  My two personal favourites are pink grapefruit and raspberry and orange.  The recipe for the raspberry and orange is below:

Ingredients

150g Raspberries
5 Oranges
200ml Water
50g Caster sugar

Method

1. Blitz the raspberries in a blender until they make a smooth liquid.  If you don't have a blender then try using a fork or potato masher to break them up.

2. Juice the oranges into a bowl - don't worry about any bits that get in, these will all add to the sorbet

3. Put the orange juice, water and sugar into a pan and warm over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved.  Leave to cool.

4. Add the liquidised raspberries to the orange juice mixture and put in a sealed plastic container in the freezer.

5. Leave for 3-4 hours for ice crystals to form then take out and stir well.  Return to the freezer and leave to harden.  Use within 3 months.



Nothing is more refreshing than a bowl of sorbet on a hot day