Hello and welcome to Drinks Tube with me Tim Shieff professional and resident vegan. Today
I'm going to be taking you through how to make a watermelon slushie with just three
ingredients, it's great for BBQs, summer parties, children. It's not quite sorbet and it's not
quite juice- just slushie. You're gonna love it. We've got a watermelon, three limes and
some sugar to sweeten it up. First off we're gonna make the lime sugar. You wanna take
two of the limes to zest into a pestle and mortar like this. The lime sugar just adds
that extra touch to the watermelon juice that makes it a little bit more like a cocktail,
fun for the kids to drink. Alright, two limes worth of zest, now to add the sugar. We've
got two limes so we four table spoons worth, obviously if you've have more limes you want
more sugar. Then in your mortar, you pestle it. See the sugar turn green like sherbet
when you're a kid. Nice lime tint to it. On to the watermelon, one of my absolute favourite
fruits. One this size should do about six glasses. Whatever technique you fancy, from
the shell into the blender. For me I like to use an ice cream scoop technique like that.
Leaving the seeds in gives you that extra bit of protein. Watermelon is really good
because it's so hydrating as well as the vitamin C it gives you, always important to get those
vitamins in. If you go right up to the husk, there's a lot nutrients stored right there.
In a lot of fruit right near the skin is where you get the best, healthiest nutrients. Got
most of this in now, looking pretty full- gonna blend this up. Right look at that beautiful
pink colour. Gonna strain this out. You don't have to use a sieve if you want, if you want
it a bit chunkier. Now you're gonna take the two limes that you zested earlier. You're
gonna roll them out, you get up to a third times more juice doing this. For the watermelon
size that I had I thought two limes were appropriate but you can adjust it to taste. After you've
squeezed your limes into the watermelon you're gonna take a tray. the thinner the tray the
quicker it will freeze into a slush. So that's one watermelon, two limes blended and strained.
You wanna pop that in the freezer for about two hours, depending on the depth of your
tray and while it's in there you wanna check on it every so often and give a stir, just
so it has that lovely slushie texture throughout. I'm gonna pop this one in the freezer now.
In it goes, it doesn't matter what self you put it on, it's not an oven. That's gonna
be there for a while now, I've got some time to kill let's have some fun in the kitchen.
It's been about an hour now gonna go check on it. so what you wanna do is mix this in,
that helps the rest freeze. So give it a quick stir, pop it back in the freezer.
Just before I get out, i'm gonna rim a glass with lime sugar. Get a fresh lime, get a quarter of
the lime. Just around the rim, nice and wet, take the lime sugar and just do that.
Ready.
Spoon.
That looks so good the textures perfect. That really is so good, so refreshing. Beautiful
frozen watermelon. That's lime sugar, phwoar. Stay subscribed to Drinks Tube for more non
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