Charishma's Homemade Delicious Lip Lickin' Apricot Sherbet

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 8 cups water, divided
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 250 g succulent un-ripened dried apricots (the ready soaked variety which can be eaten straight out of the packet)
• 2 1/4 teaspoons vanilla essence

Recipe

• 1 combine 3 cups water and sugar in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally.
• 2 add apricots, and bring to a boil.
• 3 cover the saucepan with a tight-fitting lid, reduce heat, and simmer for 10 minutes.
• 4 add essence and stir.
• 5 remove from heat.
• 6 place apricot mixture in a blender.
• 7 process until you get a thick yummy sticky mixture; adding a little water to process, as and when necessary.
• 8 allow to cool for 15 minutes.
• 9 pour 5 cups chilled water in a pitcher.
• 10 now, take a large sieve over the pitcher and add the sticky apricot mixture, slowly over it; and keep stirring while you do so.
• 11 you will see the apricot mixture's liquidy content trickle down into the pitcher and the thick sticky part remain in the sieve.
• 12 empty the thick sticky part into a bowl and keep aside.
• 13 you can use this as a topping over cooked rice (steaming hot rice), or you can use this as a marinade over chicken, or as a dip, or as a topping over chicken salad, or even on a pizza- use your imagination!
• 14 stir the apricot sherbet that's in the pitcher very gently; careful that it shouldn't spill, or you'll have alot of stickiness in the kitchen to clean up and nobody likes that.
• 15 close the lid of the pitcher.
• 16 carefully, put the pitcher in the refrigerator.
• 17 serve chilled.