Sorbet of baked apples – Recipe of the week

Recipe by Andrea Costantini from An apple a day
Photograph – Stefania Sainaghi

 

 

 

Ingredients for 4 portions
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes + cooling

500 g pulp of baked Golden Delicious apples
150 g granulated sugar
25 g glucose powder (available in pharmacies or from on-line suppliers to the pastry industry)

4 Pink Lady apples

Syrup
Combine 2 liters of water with the granulated sugar in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until reduced to a syrupy consistency. Let cool then add the glucose powder mixing well.

Sorbet
Mix the cooked apples with the sugar syrup in a blender at high speed. Transfer the mixture to an ice cream machine and freeze according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Remove the top third of each of the Pink Lady apples, remove the pulp with a melon-baller or similar tool. Fill each with a portion of the sorbet and serve.