CACTUS-PEAR SORBETS

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Categories     Blender     Ice Cream Machine     Fruit     Dessert     Low Sodium     Frozen Dessert     Summer     Vegan     Gourmet

Yield Makes 4 cups

Number Of Ingredients 3

8 cactus pears (about 3 pounds total)
1 cup Simple Syrup
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice, or to taste

Steps:

  • Line a baking sheet with plastic wrap. Wearing rubber gloves, wash cactus pears and with paper towels rub off any prickly fuzz left on skin. Halve cactus pears lengthwise and with a spoon carefully scoop flesh with seeds into a blender, leaving thick shells intact. Add syrup and lime juice to blender and purée until smooth. Pour cactus-pear purée through a fine sieve into a bowl and discard seeds. Put cactus shells on baking sheet and freeze while making sorbet.
  • Freeze purée in an ice-cream maker. Scoop sorbet into frozen shells, smoothing surfaces so they are level. Freeze filled cactus shells at least 6 hours, or until frozen hard. Frozen sorbets in shells may be wrapped individually in plastic wrap and kept in freezer 1 week.

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