The Perfect Scoop' Tangerine Sorbet — Cooks Without Borders

June 06,2024

Adapted from David Lebovitz.

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One of our favorite recipes in a book we love, David Lebovitz’s The Perfect Scoop, this easy-to-make sorbet has incredible purity of flavor. Use the best mandarins you can find — organic, if possible — during their season, in winter. Lebovitz’s original recipe calls for 3 cups of tangerine juice, which he estimates is from about 12 to 15 tangerines. We’ve made this twice and got a smaller yield, finding that 15 to 20 juicy tangerines yielded 2 cups. We adjusted down the sugar in the original recipe, and still got the same 1-quart/1-liter volume of sorbet the original recipe anticipates.