Artificial Flavors Free Vegan Strawberry Sorbet
When strawberries are at their peak, this sorbet is one of the most satisfying frozen desserts you can make — intensely fruity, bracingly bright, and completely clean in flavor. Store-bought sorbets and fruit-flavored frozen treats are notorious for sneaking in artificial flavors, colors, and "natural flavor" blends that are anything but straightforward, so making your own is a genuinely smart move. Here, the ingredient list is refreshingly short: fresh strawberries, a homemade simple syrup, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt — nothing hidden, nothing synthetic. Straining the blended purée through a fine-mesh sieve gives the final texture a silky, professional quality that rivals anything you'd find at a gelato shop. The lemon juice does double duty, brightening the berry flavor and helping the sorbet hold a scoopable consistency after freezing. Churning it in an ice cream maker develops that soft, pale pink mound that looks almost too pretty to eat — almost. It's the kind of dessert that tastes like summer distilled into a bowl, with zero compromise on what's actually in it.
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6 servings
For the simple syrup
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup water
For the sorbet
- 2 lb fresh strawberries, hulled
- 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- ¼ tsp fine salt
Instructions
- 1
Combine the sugar and water in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the sugar is fully dissolved, about 3–4 minutes. Remove from the heat and let the syrup cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
- 2
Add the hulled strawberries to a blender or food processor and blend until completely smooth, about 1 minute.
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