Key Lime Sorbet with Gingersnaps

By pattie_d

Ingredients

• 5 cups water
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 (1/8-inch-thick) slices peeled fresh ginger
• 2 teaspoons grated Key lime rind or lime rind
• 1/2 cup fresh Key lime juice or lime juice (about 10 Key limes)
• Gingersnaps

Details

Servings 12
Adapted from find.myrecipes.com

Preparation

Step 1

Combine first 3 ingredients in a large nonaluminum saucepan; bring to a boil. Add lime rind, and cook over low heat 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Strain mixture through a sieve into a bowl, reserving the sugar mixture. Discard solids. Cool sugar mixture completely. Stir in lime juice.

Pour the juice mixture into the freezer can of an ice-cream freezer, and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. Spoon sorbet into a freezer-safe container; cover and freeze for 2 hours or until firm. Serve with Gingersnaps.

Note: Total nutritional analysis includes Gingersnaps.



CALORIES 294 (23% from fat); FAT 7.5g (sat 4.4g,mono 2.1g,poly 0.4g); IRON 1.1mg; CHOLESTEROL 36mg; CALCIUM 12mg; CARBOHYDRATE 55.2g; SODIUM 311mg; PROTEIN 2.7g; FIBER 0.6g