Mango and Caipirinha Sorbet - 6 servings

tropical-flavored sorbets are refreshing and palate cleansing

 
 
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250ml water
100g caster sugar
500ml mango slices (3 fresh mangoes, sliced or 3 cans mango slices)
200ml fresh lime juice (about 8 limes), plus strips of lime zest for garnish
100ml cachaça (Brazilian rum) or white rum

in a small saucepan, combine the water and sugar. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer for 5 minutes until the sugar is dissolved, Remove from the heat and cool completely.

in a blender, combine the mango pulp with the lime juice. Add the cooled sugar water and cachaça/rum. Blend until well mixed.

place in an ice cream maker and freeze churn then move to a covered container and freeze

serve in chilled stemmed glasses. Garnish each serving with lime zest.

 

you might recoil at the suggestion of using canned fruit, but some fresh fruit, mangoes being one of them (oranges another), are picked before they are ripe being allowed to ripen during their journey. Canned fruit is allowed to ripen on the tree before picking so can contain more nutrients than fresh