Recipe: Homemade Yuzu-Orange Sorbet - Coooool

Just went thru a whole series of laughter and tears watching a Korean drama - Rooftop Prince (屋塔房王世子), totally given my heart to this endearing and yet funny plot. While I was overwhelmed by this ancient and modern Korean romance flurry, apart from busy google-ing Park Yu-chun (朴有天), I was also well inspired to come up with this refreshing summer yuzu treat as a tribute - haha!

Yuzu Honey

Yuzu, 柚子, a small yellow grapefruit originated in East Asia. A famous product of it is Yuzu Honey, which is basically thinly sliced yuzu mixed with sugar and honey that is to make yuzu tea by adding water

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Here it is - a nice simple recipe to cool down your summer~

Yuzu-Orange Sorbet (Serves 4-6)

Ingredients:
4 teaspoons yuzu honey (from supermarket, of course!)
3 oranges
2 cups water
1 cup sugar (I personally prefer less)
1/2 lemon
A pinch of basil (optional)

Yummy creamy Yuzu-Orange Sorbet :)

Method:
1. In a saucepan, stir together water and sugar. Bring to a  boil, then reduce heat to medium and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat, and allow to cool. 

2. Stir in yuzu honey and basil while the sugar water is still warm

3. While cooling down the mixture, squeeze the juice out from 3 oranges, leave some orange pulp inside the juice for the texture

4. Filter the saucepan mixture, try to leave some yuzu slices to the filtered mixture

5. Mix the orange juice with the cooled mixture

6. Freeeeze!

7. Stab and crash the mixture when it becomes semi-solid (around 7 hours, as experimented), continue to freeze

8. When completely frozen, pour into blender to blend until creamy and smooth, then freeze again (as it would melt down a bit during blending)

9. Enjoy :)

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How nice would it be watching Rooftop Prince together with your loved one/ones, licking sorbet and laughing together :)

Rooftop Prince (屋塔房王世子)!! Highly recommended!

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