Recipe of Ginger and Sugarcane Sorbet


Ingredients:

400 ml sugarcane juice
40 ml ginger juice or 100 ml ginger ale
40 ml lemon juice
A pinch of black salt
10 g cayenne pepper
1 tbsp honey
4 groundnut chikki pieces

For the garnish:
100 g sugar
100 g sesame (til)

Method:

Whisk in the sugarcane juice, ginger juice or ginger ale, lemon juice, black salt and cayenne pepper. Transfer the mixture to an ice-cream machine and freeze according to manufacturer’s directions. (If you do not have an ice-cream machine, freeze the mixture in a bowl, remove from freezer and mix till it is frothy and the ice is mixed well with the juice). Drizzle a little honey on the serving plate. Place a chikki at the centre and a tbsp. of the sorbet on top. Use a thinly sliced sugarcane stem for decoration. Garnish with berries. For garnish, caramelize 100 g sugar and add 100 g til. Pour the liquid on a flat plate and allow it to cool. Break into pieces ad us on top of the sorbet.

Garnishing Ideas: Bright-colored candies or berries are perfect to garnish this dish. Another idea is to boil some blueberry crush into a thick concentrate. Add pepper powder (a pinch for each glass) and use it to make designs on the plate. Or dip chopped pineapple pieces in sugar syrup and freeze.