Key Lime Sorbet

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown

Show: Good EatsEpisode: Churn Baby Churn

Rated: 5 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (4)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(4)

Cook Time:
3 hr 15 min
Level:
--
Yield:
1 1/2 quarts

Times:

Prep: 15 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 3 hr 15 min
Total:: 3 hr 30 min

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Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 cup key lime preserves
1 lemon, zested and juiced
1 lime, zested and juiced
4 cups lime flavored club soda or seltzer
Kosher salt

Directions

Combine sugar, preserves and 1 cup of the soda in a medium saucepan and stir over low heat until sugar and preserves are melted. Add citrus juice and zest. Stir in the remaining soda, move to a clean, lidded container and chill thoroughly, 2 to 3 hours.

Turn mixture in ice cream maker per maker's instructions or until mixture reaches the consistency of a firm slush. Return mixture to lidded container and harden in freezer 1 hour before serving.

If sorbet is to be held frozen for longer than 2 hours, move from freezer to refrigerator for about half an hour before serving. If you'd like a more assertive sorbet, double the amount of citrus zest.

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recipe Key Lime Sorbet
Joe West Chester, PA 07-05-2009
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Great dessert
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This is one of my favorites to make for the summer. I have trouble finding all the right ingredients, so I've made a couple... substitutions. Instead of key lime preserves, which I can't find around here at all, I use key lime jelly, which I find whenever we go on vacation to the Delaware shore (Seaside Country Store in Fenwick Island, DE carries their own stock). Also, I can't find lime seltzer, so I use lemon-lime instead. The jelly takes longer to break down than I imagine perserves would - so I cook it higher than AB recommends, and for a longer period of time. Also the full recipe is a bit much for my ice cream maker - it all fits... barely. Still and all, it's one of my favorites - it's easy to make, and offers up a nice contrast of sour and sweet.Read more
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Ginger Silver Spring, MD 06-15-2009
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Key Summertime Cool
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

My family loves this sorbet. I make it all year long.
recipe Key Lime Sorbet
PJ Vinton, LA 09-03-2008
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churn baby churn
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I love this show
recipe Key Lime Sorbet
W. Mesquite, TX 06-07-2005
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Great, but maybe a tad sweet
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Living in a culinary wasteland, I rarely expect to find all the ingredients. I had to substitute lime marmalade for key lime... preserves -- that might have made the result a little sweet. I also got tired of zesting and squeezing all those little key limes, so I gave up after three or four and used a regular lime instead. Overall, everyone was very pleased, but I think I would have preferred a slightly less sweet and slightly milder flavor. Maybe a trace less zest and juice next time. Also, I did not think the (lemon-lime) seltzer added much in the way of flavor.Read more