One of the most delicious eastern sweets - sherbet,made from sugar, nuts and dried fruits. Many people confuse this sweet dish of the East with the fruit dessert sorbet, which is similar in name, which in different countries sounds like sorbetto, sharbet, sherbet. But these are completely different sweets, both in consistency and taste. This article provides a recipe for sherbet, known to many since childhood and loved along with baklava and kozinaki, as well as a recipe for fruit sorbet, which is popular in Europe. The first is good for winter, the second is for summer.
Sherbet in the best traditions of the East
The traditional oriental sorbet is very sweet andpretty calories. It is delicious to drink it with hot tea or black coffee, warming up on a cold winter evening. The solid texture and long shelf life allow you to take it on the road as a sweet and nourishing snack.
Recipe number 1. Powder Milk Sherbet
We offer you to choose your own sherbet recipe.At home, you can make sherbet in two versions. Let's start with the traditional. First, in the oven you need to dry 200 grams of nuts, it is best to take peanuts or walnuts. Then grind them with a rolling pin, but not too small. In a cauldron with a thick bottom, we melt 100 grams of sugar and add 350 grams of water to it, boil, add another 600 grams of sugar and some vanillin. When the sugar is completely dissolved, put in it 50 grams of butter, stir and remove from heat. Mix sugar syrup with 500 grams of powdered milk and chopped nuts. The resulting mass is spread on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Sherbet hardens quickly enough, so try to quickly level it with your hands and cut it, because later the finished sweetness will have to be pounded.
Recipe number 2. Tender sorbet with condensed milk
But another recipe of sherbet - with condensedmilk Boil 100 grams of sugar with 50 milliliters of water, add a little lemon juice, 100 grams of condensed milk, the same amount of butter and walnuts. Boil sherbet for 20 minutes, shift into convenient molds and cool slightly, then put in the freezer for freezing for about an hour. The classic sherbet recipe can be slightly added. For example, adding cocoa powder, you get chocolate sorbet, replacing the walnuts with hazelnuts or cashews, you change the usual taste of your favorite sweets.
Refreshing fruit or berry sherbet
If it's hot outside, then instead of east it's better.give preference to fruit sorbet. For it, you need very few ingredients: fresh fruit or berries, sugar and lemon juice. To make a sweet strawberry sorbet, take 500 grams of ripe berries, remove the tails. Crush the berries in a blender. You should have a smooth mash. If necessary, you can use a sieve. Mix the berry puree with 100 grams of sugar and 5 spoons of lemon juice, put in a bowl and put in the freezer for 5 hours. Then remove, whisk the mixture again in a blender (then the sorbet will be softer) and put another 2 hours in the freezer. Serve the berry or fruit sorbet, putting it in the ice cream bowl with a spoon for ice cream and decorating with a sprig of mint or fresh berries.
Every sherbet has its time
These are so different, but delicious sorbet cancook at home. If after a winter walk you want to warm yourself with tea with something sweet, then there is an oriental sherbet recipe, if you want to get a sip of freshness on a hot summer day, then prepare a cooling fruit sherbet from what is ripening in the beds. Agree, in each season, as in each dessert, has its own charm.
