Mango sorbet

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This easy mango sorbet recipe from Marcello Tully makes a refreshing end to a meal – just make sure you use beautifully ripe mangoes to get the best possible flavour. Flavoured with a dash of lime, this sorbet perfectly evokes summer in Brazil.

First published in 2016

Ingredients

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Mango sorbet

  • 2 mangoes, peeled and cut into chunks
  • 200g of caster sugar
  • 250ml of water
  • 1 lime, juice only

Method

1
Begin by making the sugar syrup. Add the water and caster sugar to a saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally. Set aside to cool while you make the mango purée
  • 200g of caster sugar
  • 250ml of water
2
Place the mango chunks in a blender and blitz until smooth. Add a splash of the sugar syrup to help it blend smoothly
  • 2 mangoes, peeled and cut into chunks
3
Place the puréed mango in a large bowl and whisk in the rest of the sugar syrup and the lime juice
4
Transfer to a plastic box or other suitable container and place in the freezer, stirring every hour to break up the ice crystals. It should set in about 3 hours
First published in 2016

When Brazilian-born chef Marcello Tully started his career at fourteen, he may not have anticipated working on the starkly beautiful island of Skye – but then he probably didn’t expect to be crafting some of the most exquisitely refined Scottish-influenced food on the planet, either.

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