Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Mochi & Passion Fruit Sorbet




leaves and flours vegan Mochi & Passionfruit Sorbet

There isn't a ton of great ice cream options as far as DC goes. There are generally a few flavors available at some of the local gelato shops, and if you're lucky, there is soft serve as the DC soul food restaurant Everlasting Life. My main go-to for "ice cream" dates throughout the summer is the non-dairy frozen yogurt carried at a number of shops like FroZenYo. My cup normally consists of a tiny bit of frozen yogurt & tons of fruit & mochi. If you haven't ever had mochi, they are like pillowy sweet little marshmallows. Most people make daifuku, which is filled mochi. But that's not what I want in the cup with the rest of my dessert, so I didn't worry about the extra steps.
Buy a pint of Ciao Bella passion fruit sorbet, a box of mochiko (glutinous rice flour) at your local Asian market, and you probably have everything else you need at home. I used Vegan YumYum's recipe, and it takes around ten minutes start to finish. If you cut the mochi with a pizza cutter, it's even faster. Which I realized half way through my process of cutting tiny half inch squares with a chef's knife. After it cooled totally, I tossed the squares in a mixture of half powdered sugar/half potato starch. Easy peasy last minute end-of-summer treat!

leaves and flours vegan Mochi & Passionfruit Sorbet

7 comments:

  1. That looks awesome! I never had mochi, but your description makes me want some.

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  2. Is the nondairy yogurt at frozenyo sorbet or is it actually yogurt? I've been here for a year (and I'm in grad school, so it's kinda like I'm totally new if you're counting the hours I've spent exploring and doing fun stuff) and I'm seriously missing good ice cream. It's not even that I came from a place with great options (soft serve at the next state over) but I'm missing my ice cream maker.

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    1. It's a little more creamy than sorbet typically is, so I guess you could call it yogurt? If you aren't opposed to artificial flavoring, it's worth a shot.
      The best place to go in my opinion is Pitango! They have terrific chocolate & raspberry sorbets that are vegan. There's also always a handful of other flavors that are always solid.

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  3. Yay for more vegan recipes in the world! :) I haven't tried sorbet, making it that is, but this one sounds delicious!

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    1. It's super simple! I made a cider poached pear sorbet last fall that was way too good.

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  4. i have never had mochi! wish i had read this post *before* i went to the asian market today BUT it totally gives me an excuse to go back <3

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