I've had a small watermelon for about a week now and I've needed to eat it. I have been looking around online looking for ideas and have seen several recipes for watermelon ice cream. I thought about it for a few days, and today, I took the plunge.
Sadly, I was far too impatient to get it made that I forgot to take pictures of all the action, but it's pretty easy.
Start by making a simple syrup, you can do this with sugar, or a sugar substitute and water. Or you can just use agave and avoid this step.
Pull the syrup off the heat.
Add about 3-ish cups of watermelon chunks, 1 bag of frozen blueberries, and some lemon juice.
Pour the syrup over the top and blend well.
*Here you can either pour it into a container and freeze for a sorbet, or add yogurt. I chose both. I used skyr, it's basically Greek yogurt. Skyr is thicker than yogurt, lot fat, low calorie, and packed with protein. I don't think it's available in the US, but I know the Greek yogurt is.
Pour the sorbet mixture into a container and freeze, scraping with a fork every hour or so until all of frozen.
If you choose the frozen yogurt route, add 1 1/2 packages (about 350 grams) or so of yogurt or skyr and blend again.
Because I'm far too impatient, I poured some in a glass and made a smoothie, before putting it all into a container to freeze. It was the best smoothie I've ever made!
It took about 7 hours to prepare and freeze, but here's what I ended up with.
How do you eat your watermelon?
This looks so good! I'll have to try it soon. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteOMG! This looks amazing! I was going to tell you that when I reply to your comments on email, they get sent back to me for some reason.
ReplyDeleteThank you both!
ReplyDeleteMarie, that's strange, I'll check it out.
Looks delish...I eat my watermelon in the form of a martini...lol
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A martini sounds even better, Patti! I'll stop by.
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