Passion Fruit Sorbet

Project No. 3

The last 2 cups of passion fruit pulp have been in my fridge for a week now, the girls have been asking me to make ice-cream out of it but I think sorbet is a better choice, fat free ! I finally have time to make it yesterday afternoon, went through my cookbooks, there are so many passion fruit sorbet recipes, decided on this easy one from Hamlyn Complete Cook.

Ingredients :

10 passion fruit
1 Tbsp lime juice
100 ml water
1 egg white
1 tsp sugar

Sorbet syrup :
300g sugar
300ml

First prepare the sorbet syrup. Place the sugar & water in a pan, heat to boiling point, stirring continuously to dissolve the sugar, allow to cool.

Scoop the flesh out of the passion fruit. Liquidize with the lime juice & water for about 10 secs. Strain the juice into a freezer container & combine with the sorbet syrup. Place the container in the freezer & freeze for 2-3 hrs or until almost solid.

Whisk the egg white & sugar until stiff. remove the sorbet from the freezer & beat in the egg white. Return the sorbet to the freezer for 1-2 hrs or until set. If the sorbet has been in the freezer for 24 hrs or longer, transfer to the refrigerator 15 mins before serving to soften slightly.

* I've used 2 cups of pulp, that should be more than 10 passion fruit. I've omitted the lime juice as the passion fruit is sourish enough. After straining the juice, I added the remaining pulp & some of the seeds back to the juice, together with the sorbet syrup & I've reduced the sugar to 250g. After freezing it over night, my girls & I had the sorbet in the late afternoon, it was very refreshing !