Watermelon Sorbet

I've made this many times and love it. When I don't have yogurt on hand, I use a little evaporated milk. Depending on the flavor and sweetness of the melon, I sometimes add more sugar or Spenda. I don't do an entire melon at once, and I don't freeze the watermelon in chunks. I liquefy melon and juice in blender, freeze in ice trays, & save in freezer bags to use as needed to make a few servings. The Vitamix Professional quickly converts cubes to a fabulous sorbet.

Made this with cantaloupe and had to up the yogurt to 6 oz to make it process smoothly. So simple, came out great and really liked the consistency.

This came out perfectly. I had no problems with the texture, which was light but a bit creamy from the yoghurt.
One thing I ended up doing while working with my food processor was to cut the frozen watermelon chunks into smaller pieces and add them a little at a time with the blade running.

I really had no luck with this. First the watermelon chunks froze into a giant block. After I managed to chisel off enough to fill the food processor, only the bottom layer ever blended, despite lots of stirring attempts on my part. I also used about 2/3 of what I thought was a pretty small watermelon...but I would have had to do at least 2-3 batches in my full-size food processor if I hadn't given up after attempting the first batch. Sad :(

The key to freezing is to cut into chunks and then arrange the chunks on a sheet pan and freeze them until solid (several hours) and then make the sorbet from there in a good sized food processor - for the person with the freezing problems who commented. This is a light and great recipe. I'll admit that sometimes I've made this with sweetened condensed milk and some sea salt and made more of an ice cream (skipping the lemon juice, yogurt and salt) and that's amazing as well.

Once grew watermelons. In addition to a hollow sound, on ripe watermelons you can feel veins running along the stripes that are raised. On not ripe ones they aren't.

Have found that putting these in the microwave on the defrost cycle for 30 seconds or so helps to soften them up without melting.

Your post mad eme laugh out loud. And feel better about my miserable experience, when I decided that this looks so good that I am going to have a go with a large watermelon. The rest you know.

The flavor was light and clean. Perfect ending to a summer dinner!

What weight is considered a “small” watermelon?

You can do this with most frozen fruit: pineapple, mangos, etc. I don't add the citrus for most.

My version is made with one cup fat free Fage, 210 grams of frozen fruit of choice. I prefer strawberries but lately love peach/mango. I Do it in my Ninja and it requires a lot of pushing down but ends up like soft serve. I eat it immediately because otherwise it becomes a frozen brick but I'll try adding a little alcohol because it could only taste better! Maybe some Contreau with the strawberries or vanilla vodka with the peach/mango!

Wow, what a summer refresher. 4 cups frozen cubed watermelon, 1/2 cup Fage nonfat yogurt, 2 tbs sugar, 1 tbs lemon juice into the food processor till mixed (not too long), refreeze until frozen crust.

This recipe alone justifies buying a Vitamix (which I use for all sorts of goodies). Since it's just my sweetie and me at home now, I bought two ice cube trays with covers and just combine the fruit etc. and blend, adjusting the other ingredients till it tastes right. I go a little on the sweeter side, because one sorbets are frozen, they don't taste as sweet as when liquid. Like others said, I do this with all sorts of fruit and then combine the cubes randomly for some delicious combos.

I should add that when you're ready to eat this, you've got to Vitamix the frozen cubes on the Frozen Desserts preset to get sorbet. Keep coconut cream cubes on hand because coconut goes with anything and everything.