This sorbet is delicious, it is creamy, soft, tender and citrusy with little bits of ginger and little strands of orange kumquat zest.
By Nik Sharma
When it comes to kumquats, I’m not a big fan of eating them raw, the skin is pleasantly sweet but the flesh is tart and sour which makes my face cringe and pucker, every time I take a bite into these little guys. However, I do enjoy kumquats when they are cooked as preserves or spreads and in desserts, such as this sorbet.
Kumquat Ginger Sorbet
- Total Time: 2 hours 40 mins
- Yield: 6-8 1x
Description
This sorbet is delicious, it is creamy, soft, tender and citrusy with little bits of ginger and little strands of orange kumquat zest.
Ingredients
Scale
- 12 ounces/ 340gm kumquats
- 6 cups water to boil the kumquats
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup crystallized ginger
- 1 teaspoon ginger root, freshly grated
- a few fresh chocolate-mint leaves to garnish
Instructions
- Rinse the kumquats under running cold water. Cut each fruit in half and trim and discard the tops and bottoms along with the seeds. Place the trimmed fruit in a medium sized saucepan. Add two cups of water to cover the kumquats completely and bring to a boil on a medium flame. Once the water boils, discard the water and repeat the boiling process twice with the rest of the water.
- Process the kumquats in a food processor to a smooth puree.
- With regular stirring bring the 2 cups of water and sugar to a boil along with the ginger. Remove the syrup from the flame and pass the syrup through a sieve to collect the ginger bits. Keep the ginger aside.
- Put the syrup in a glass mixing bowl and keep over an ice water bath. Stir in the kumquat puree and allow to cool to room temperature. This will take about 30-40 minutes. Pass the syrup through a sieve and with a large spoon press the fruit pulp against the sieve to extract as much of the fruit as possible.
- Chill the syrup in the freezer for another 45 minutes before adding it into the ice cream maker. Follow the instructions that came with your ice cream maker, they vary a little by brand. Carefully drop the ginger bits, a few at a time during the last five minutes of churning. The sorbet is done when it is frozen and gets a light milky orange-yellow color. Transfer to a clean freezer-proof storage container and freeze for at least another 1 to 2 hours before serving. Serve a scoop or two of the sorbet with fresh chocolate-mint leaves.
- Prep Time: 40 mins
- Cook Time: 2 hours
- Category: Dessert
