Color Mania #2: Mango Sorbet & Pops

Could you believe it was 45 degrees yesterday! I am getting baked and my room resembles an oven :(

All I could do is to enjoy an ice cold sorbet and few fruit pops now and then and sit back the whole day right under the AC.

Enjoy the yellows of life. :)

It was really a challenge to click the sorbet and pops since they were melting down in seconds. The sorbet has a grainy texture which the photo failed to show. :(

Color Mania #2: Yellow

Did you know?

• Yellow is psychologically the happiest color in the color spectrum.
• Yellow depicts caution.
  
• To the ancient Greeks, yellow denoted air.
• Leonardo da Vinci wrote that yellow represented earth.
• In India it is the symbol of the merchant and farmer.
  
• In 10th-century, The doors of felons, traitors, and criminals were painted yellow in France.
• Yellow is representative of "Greed" in Christianity.
• School buses are mostly painted in yellow.
• 75% of the pencils sold in the United States are painted yellow.

My All time favorite T20 team Chennai Super Kings has its official uniform color as Yellow :)

Ingredients:

Mangoes - 2 large (Alphonso or Malgova)
Sugar - 1 cup
Water - 1 1/2 cups
Lime juice - 3 tsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:

Chop the mangoes into small pieces and puree it using a blender.

Heat the water in a pan and add sugar to it. Keep stirring it till the sugar melts completely. Allow it to cool for a while.

Now mix in the pureed mango to the sugar syrup and add lime juice and salt to it.

Transfer the sorbet to a freezer proof container and put it into the freezer. Whisk to break down crystals every hour. Do this using your ice cream maker if are lucky to have one. ;) Leave it to set over night.

Scoop out and serve with mango pieces :)

Fill in the pop molds with the sorbet mixture and freeze it over night.

Get excited with yummy mango pops this summer. :)

Note: You can add some ginger extract or basil leaves or some cardamom to it to make it different and interesting.

Written by: Nithya
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