UnRecipe: Peach Basil Sorbet

08 August 2009 ~ 1 Comment

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I’m a “no recipe” kinda girl, which means I usually just take a look around my kitchen and throw whatever’s laying around (or on its way out) into my Vita-Mix and see what happens.

Today though, I have peaches, basil, peaches, and some more peaches. The Goddess of fruit has blessed my CSA fruit share farmer with a bounty of peaches, and I’ve been up to my eyeballs in fuzzy yellow goodness.

Sorbets are generally simply – main flavor, water, white sugar. and lemon juice.

I cut up six peaches – skin on – and threw in a little honey, about 3 large leaves of basil, and ice to fill up the blender about a 1/3 from the top.

I didn’t have any lemon juice, but if you have it, two tablespoons or the juice of 1/2 a lemon will do.

Depending on your blender, you might want to remove the skins by dropping the peaches into hot water, let them sit for a minute, then remove the skins.

That’s pretty much it.

Basil can overpower this dish, so you can do a little taste testing while you’re blending to to determine if you should add more water or ice, sugar, or peaches.

If you use ice instead of water, you’ll get to enjoy it right away. If you use water, you’ll have to freeze it for at least 4 hours to set it.

Option A: Pour into ice trays. When ready to eat, pop them out and pulse them in the blender for a few seconds.

Option B: pour into Popsicle molds.

A picture will come soon.

Tonight…peach crumble…