Polo shirts and sorbets are the easiest way to make ice cream at home without a refrigerator. We show you a few perfect recipes to fight the heat in a healthy way.
- Basic recipe for making polo shirts or sorbets
- Practical tips for making polo shirts or sorbets
- Pieces of fruits and flowers add color
- Recipes for healthy and refreshing polo shirts or sorbets
Making a polo or sorbet at home is very easy. In summer, which is when cool things are most desired, there are many fruits that are in season and are ideal to prepare it. With these homemade recipes you will avoid the chemical additives, dyes, preservatives, sweeteners and sugars that fill the poles and commercial ice cream.
BASIC RECIPE FOR MAKING POLO SHIRTS OR SORBETS
Ingredients:
- 200 g fresh fruit of your choice
- 150 ml water, juice, tea or infusion
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar (you can substitute xylitol or erythritol) or honey well heaped
- Some fruits to make the appearance more attractive
Elaboration:
- Place the clean fruits in a bowl with the liquid you have chosen and the sugar or honey and crush with an arm mixer at slow speed.
- If you want you can strain the mixture but it is not necessary. Let it sit for an hour, then put it in a mold and freeze it.
PRACTICAL TIPS FOR MAKING POLO SHIRTS OR SORBETS
If when the pole is already done, you do not want to leave the mold, put it briefly in warm water. It will then thaw on the edge and peel off easily.
If you don’t have polo molds on hand, you can use jars or yogurt cups. It is important that the vessel does not narrow towards the opening so that the pole can come out whole easily.
To prevent the glass from breaking when the ice cream expands when freezing, never fill it to the brim, let air in and do not close it with a lid. If the mixture is very liquid, and the stick falls off, let it freeze a little before adding the stick.
PIECES OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS ADD COLOR
If you want to make your polo more attractive, you can add a few pieces of fruit to the dough to be frozen. Or use berries or the diced pulp of any fruit.
You can also use flowers to make your own ice cream, they are very suitable:
- Small rose petals.
- Small daisies or chiribitas.
- Borage flowers, which have an acidic note.
RECIPES FOR HEALTHY AND REFRESHING POLO SHIRTS OR SORBETS
ORANGE POLO SHIRT AND BLACK TEA
Ingredients:
- 200 ml orange juice
- 150 ml black tea
- 2 tablespoons sugar (you can substitute xylitol or erythritol)
Elaboration:
- Boil water and prepare black tea, let it sit for 5-7 minutes.
- Add the sweetener to the hot tea.
- Add the orange juice and let it cool.
- Then leave the mixture in the refrigerator for about 2 hours.
- Then, pour the cold liquid into prepared containers and let them freeze overnight.
STRAWBERRY AND YOGURT POLO SHIRT
Ingredients:
- 500 g strawberries
- 3 tablespoons plain yogurt
- 2 tablespoons sugar (you can substitute xylitol or erythritol)
- 1 splash lemon juice
Elaboration:
- Cut the strawberries as small as possible and puree some of them.
- In a bowl, combine the yogurt, sugar, lemon juice, and add everything to the puree and strawberry pieces. Depending on the desired consistency, you can also add a little water.
- Pour the mixture into small yogurt or ice cream containers, and let it freeze in the freezer.
KIWI POLO SHIRT
Ingredients:
- 200 g Kiwis
- 150 ml water
- 3 or 4 quarts of sugar (you can replace it with xylitol or erythritol)
- A splash of lemon juice
Elaboration:
- Heat the sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat and let it boil, stirring constantly. As soon as the mixture has turned into syrup, you can take it off the stove and let it cool.
- Then mix the syrup with the lemon juice and pureed kiwi and pour everything into small containers for popsicles and let it freeze.
PINEAPPLE POLO SHIRT
Ingredients:
- 1 pineapple
- 450 ml water
- 2 organic limes
- 140 g sugar (you can replace it with xylitol or erythritol)
Elaboration:
- Boil the water in a saucepan. Add the skin cut into strips of one of the limes and sugar.
- After it boils for 5 minutes, remove the mixture from the heat and let it cool. Remove the lime peel.
- Squeeze both files into a separate bowl. Peel the pineapple, cut the stem and remove the pulp around the heart (you can use a pineapple dishearter to make your job easier).
- Crush the pineapple with the lime juice and boiled sugar water until you get a creamy dough. Put everything in ice cream pans and leave them in the freezer for about five hours.
WATERMELON AND MINT SORBET
Ingredients:
- 1/2 watermelon
- 75 g sugar or honey
- 75 ml water
- 1 lime
- 10 mint leaves
Elaboration:
- Put in a pot 75 ml of water with 75 g of sugar and let the mixture simmer for one minute. Now add about 10 finely chopped fresh mint leaves and then let the mint syrup cool and sit for at least 30 minutes. After the time strain the mixture.
- Cut half a watermelon and crush the pulp. Now pass the puree through a strainer to remove the residue. Add the watermelon mixture and lime juice to the mint syrup, put it in the molds and freeze.
