Desserts Recipes - Mango and Passion Fruit Sorbet Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 4

• 2 ripe mangoes

• 4 passion fruits

• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

• 75 g/3 oz caster sugar

• 150 ml/1/4 pint water

• 1-2 egg whites (optional)

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Method:

1. Cut the skin from the mangoes and cut the pulp from the stones. Halve the passion fruit and scoop out all the pulp.

2. Put the mango and passion fruit pulp into a food processor or blender and work to a puree or rub through a sieve.

3. Put the lemon juice, sugar and water into a saucepan and heat just until the sugar has dissolved. Stir into the fruit puree and allow to cool.

4. Turn the fruit puree into a freezer proof container, cover, seal and freeze until firm, stirring once or twice during freezing.

5. If liked, whisk 1-2 egg whites until stiff, then fold them into the fruit puree when it is slightly frozen. This extends the puree and gives a greater volume, but the egg whites do take away some of the natural fruit flavor.

6. Transfer the sorbet to the refrigerator 15 minutes before serving, to soften.

Note: The combination of mango and passion fruit makes for a different but highly delicious flavor in this unusual sorbet.