Aprons and Apples: All Natural, DELICIOUS Watermelon Lime Sorbet with No Added Sugar!

I was at Trader Joe's while visiting my sister in Santa Fe and saw these beautiful watermelons for $3.50!! Half the cost of what they are where I live. So I decided to make a delicious, refreshing, TOTALLY HEALTHY watermelon lime sorbet.

You can make it with an ice cream maker or without! The recipe is very simple.

Watermelon Lime sorbet

Photo courtesy of Rachel Ray

My version is sweet, light, refreshing, and oh so delicious as well as being completely healthy!

8 cups of cubed watermelon

1/3 cup fresh lime juice

1 tsp powdered stevia

Now you can make this two ways. The first way does not require an ice cream maker. For this method simply place the watermelon chunks on a cookie sheet and freeze. While that is freezing mix your stevia into your lime juice. Once the watermelon is frozen throw it and the lime juice stevia mix into the food processor . Since the fruit is frozen it will blend all nicely and stay a nice sorbet consistency with out the need of the ice cream maker.

If you want to use the ice cream maker throw all the ingredients into a processor or blender and then into the ice cream maker. If you have a room temperature watermelon you may have trouble getting your ice cream maker to freeze it all the way past a slush. So start with cold or slightly frozen watermelon. If you choose to use a warmer melon you may just need to throw it into the freezer for the last bit. If you are serving it right away keep an eye on it that it doesn't freeze too hard! If you are serving it later you will need to pull it (if frozen hard) out of the freezer early to let it warm to a better consistency and shave with a fork before serving.

My regular sized watermelon (not personal size and not huge) made two batches in the ice cream maker and left me a batch and a half of watermelon lime mixture for popsicles! The kids loved it both ways and I felt great giving it to them! I have really tried to keep my kids sugar intake limited and this is a fun way of doing it so they don't feel deprived. In fact the neighbor boys scarfed them down as well and didn't even notice the lack of added sugar! Let me know how it goes.

P.S. If you are looking for some other sorbet, smoothie and popsicle recipes check out these posts I did earlier with TONS of recipes that will refresh on a hot day, satisfy a sweet tooth and keep you looking great in a swimsuit!