Chocolate sorbet

Chocolate sorbet

Choose really dark chocolate and cocoa for this unusual low-fat sorbet

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 5 mins

Plus chilling, churning and freezing

Low-fat

Method

  1. Tip the sugar into a bowl, sift in the cocoa and stir. Bring 600ml water to the boil in a medium saucepan. Whisk in the sugar and cocoa and return to a gentle simmer. Simmer, uncovered, for 5 mins, whisking occasionally. Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate and vanilla until the chocolate has melted.
  2. Cool the mixture, then put in the fridge for several hrs or overnight until well chilled. Make the sorbet in an ice-cream machine or pour into a rigid plastic container, preferably bowl shaped, and freeze until frozen 3cm from the edges. Whisk to break down the ice crystals, then freeze again for 1 hr more. Whisk and freeze again one more time, then leave until completely frozen.
  3. Before serving, transfer to the fridge for 30 mins to make scooping easier.

221 kcalories, protein 1g, carbohydrate 46g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 1g, sugar 42g, salt 0.05 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2010.

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  • 21 May 2010

    Beamy rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This is pretty good. It tastes like the difference between real hot chocolate made with milk, and instant hot chocolate made with water. So if you're a hardened milk hot choc. fan, then it's not for you. But the chocolate and good quantity of cocoa (and I added more too) help to make it taste richer than you'd expect with just water in it.

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  • 04 October 2011

    abbie rated this recipe

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  • 13 December 2012

    master smith commented on this recipe

    Its a great fresh taste ...lovely texture too (used machine) ... but it is very sweet wondering what I could do to reduce sugar ..but maintain volume?

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  • 12 March 2013

    gerrydee rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    master smith, mine wasn't too sweet and I don't have a sweet tooth. I used 100% block chocolate and 100% cocoa powder. Ran out of vanilla and used 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier. Also, instead of sugar I used maple syrup, 270 grams by weight.

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 5 mins

Plus chilling, churning and freezing

Low-fat

Ingredients

  • 200g caster sugar
  • 50g cocoa
  • 50g dark chocolate , finely chopped
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
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221 kcalories, protein 1g, carbohydrate 46g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 1g, sugar 42g, salt 0.05 g

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