Happiness on a stick! Fruity red wine is combined with fresh grape juice, zingy lemon juice and sugar (It’s a sweet treat after all!). It’s then churned in an ice cream machine and frozen in ice popsicle moulds/ shallow pan to a refreshing goodness! Like all our recipes, please note that this is a basic recipe, to give a gist of ingredients, their proportions and method. Feel free to make changes – you can substitute the grapes with half a cup of fresh raspberries for a red wine and raspberry sorbet, or a whole cup of cranberries for a cranberry red wine sorbet. (In case of cranberries, they will need to be cooked in some water, with sugar, until soft and pulpy.)
INGREDIENTS
- ¾ cup/175ml fruit-forward red wine – we recommend Malbec or Zinfandel
- 45g grapes
- 45ml fresh lemon juice
- 45g caster/ superfine sugar
METHOD
- Prepare your ice cream maker, as per manufacturer’s instructions. (Some ice cream makers need to be chilled in the freezer, prior to usage.)
- Blend the grapes to a smooth purée in a mixer grinder. Extract juice from these puréed grapes using a strainer and piece of muslin cloth. Place the strainer over a bowl and cover it with the muslin. Pour the purée over the cloth, letting grape juice to slowly drip into the bowl.
- Now to make the sorbet, combine the lemon juice and the caster sugar in a bowl. The sugar should readily dissolve in the acidity of the lemon. Use a wire whisk for stirring. Then, pour in the filtered grape juice, fruity red wine and 45 ml cold water. Mix.
- Churn this sorbet mixture in the ice cream maker for 10 minutes. Then, pour it into popsicle moulds and freeze until firm, or into a shallow pan for sorbet. Demould/ scoop into bowls and serve immediately.
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