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Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 180 Minutes |
Ready In: 195 Minutes Servings: 5 |
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A nice and cool way to end an elegant dinner or just to have a frozen blueberry treat! Ingredients:
4 cups fresh blueberries |
1 teaspoon lemon zest |
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice |
1 cup sugar |
2 cups water (divided) |
Directions:
1. BLUEBERRY PUREE.
2. In a medium sized saucepan, combine blueberries, lemon zest and 1 cup water.
3. Over high heat, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until blueberries are very soft.
4. Set a fine strainer over bowl. Strain mixture, pressing with the back of a large spoon.
5. Stir lemon juice into puree and chill.
6. SUGAR SYRUP.
7. In a saucepan, combine sugar and 1 cup water and bring to a boil over high heat.
8. Reduce heat and simmer until sugar dissolves. (2 to 3 minutes).
9. Transfer to a bowl and chill.
10. ONCE CHILLED.
11. Stir sugar syrup into blueberry puree.
12. Pour mixture into a shallow pan.
13. Freeze blueberry mixture until ice crystals form around edges of pan ( about 45 to 60 minutes).
14. Using a fork, scrape the ice crystals from the edges and stir into mixture.
15. Freeze mixture until fully frozen (about 1 to 1-1/2 hours, stirring several times).
16. This is very pretty served in small fancy glasses and garnishished with crisp cookies (like a lemon wafer) and more fresh blueberries if desired.
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