Best Tangerine Cranberry Sorbet Recipes

Fresh Tangerine Sorbet image

Yield Makes about 5 cups

Number Of Ingredients 2

3 1/2 cups fresh tangerine juice (from about 15 tangerines)
3/4 cup superfine sugar

Steps:

In a bowl stir together juice and sugar until sugar is dissolved. Chill juice, covered, until cold, about 3 hours. Freeze juice in an ice-cream maker. Sorbet may be made 1 week ahead.

Cranberry and Orange Thyme Sorbet image

Provided by Jerry Traunfeld

Yield Makes 1 quart, 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 6

12 ounces fresh cranberries, washed
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups water
Thinly sliced zest of 2 oranges (removed with a zester)
8 to 12 3-inch springs fresh thyme, such as orange balsam, lemon, or English thyme(1/2 ounce)
1 1/2 cups freshly squeezed orange juice

Steps:

Bring the cranberries, sugar, water, and orange zest to a boil in a medium (3-quart) saucepan. Partially cover the pan and boil until most of the cranberries pop, about 5 minutes. Stir in the thyme sprigs, remove from the heat, cover tightly, and steep for 30 minutes. Pour the fruit mixture into a fine sieve set on top of a deep bowl. Stir and press down on the fruit with the back of a large spoon to extract as much juice and pulp as you can, leaving the skins and thyme behind in the sieve. Refrigerate the strained mixture until thoroughly chilled. Stir in the orange juice. Freeze in an ice cream make according to the manufacturer's directions.

Cranberry Sorbet image

Yield Makes 10 to 12 servings (about 1 1/2 qt)

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 pound fresh or frozen cranberries (4 cups; thawed if frozen)
5 cups water
2 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup fresh orange juice
Garnish: fresh mint sprigs
Special Equipment
an ice cream maker

Steps:

Boil cranberries, 2 cups water, and 1/2 cup sugar in a 5- to 6-quart heavy pot, stirring occasionally, until cranberries have burst, about 15 minutes.
Purée cranberry mixture in batches in a blender until as smooth as possible (use caution when blending hot liquids). Force through a medium-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding solids, and chill, covered with plastic wrap, until cold, about 2 hours.
Bring remaining 3 cups water and remaining 2 cups sugar to a boil in a 2-quart saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved, then remove from heat and cool syrup 30 minutes.
Stir together cranberry purée, sugar syrup, and citrus juices and freeze in ice cream maker. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze until hardened, at least 2 hours.