Lavender Pom-Berry Sorbet

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Lavender has a large affinity for blackberries, blueberries, pomegranate and honey. Here, they each intermingle for a complex, intensely flavorful and colorful sorbet. People ever similar it but ne'er conjecture what’s successful it. The chromatic not lone rounds retired the spirit but helps support the sorbet texture smooth.

Add a scoop of sorbet to a summertime effect sheet oregon cup, oregon service arsenic is for a airy yet sumptuous dessert.

Buy lone lavender designed for cooking purposes; it is disposable astatine respective stores successful the Washington area, including La Cuisine successful Alexandria; Balducci's and Williams-Sonoma successful Bethesda; David's Natural Market successful Columbia, Gambrills and Forest Hills; Penzeys Spices successful Falls Church and Rockville; and country Spice & Tea Exchange shops. Some retailers merchantability dried culinary lavender prepackaged; others merchantability successful bulk, and you tin bargain what you need.

The berry-juice substance needs to infuse for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 3 hours. The sorbet needs to steadfast up successful the freezer for astatine slightest 1 hr earlier serving, and it tin beryllium frozen successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 2 weeks.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 1 quart

  • 2 cups caller oregon frozen/defrosted blackberries, coarsely chopped
  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 1 1/4 cups axenic bottled pomegranate-blueberry juice, positive much arsenic needed
  • 6 tablespoons sugar
  • 1/2 cupful clover honey, positive much arsenic needed
  • 1 tablespoonful chopped caller culinary lavender spikes (bloom heads) oregon 1 tablespoonful dried culinary lavender buds (see headnote)
  • 1/3 cupful caller lime juice

Nutritional Facts

Per 1/2-cup serving

  • Calories

    140

  • Carbohydrates

    37 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    34 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Tested by Nancy Baggett.

Published July 4, 2016

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Updated March 15, 2026

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