Lime Posset
Lime Posset, a quick and easy make-ahead refrigerated dessert that needs only cream, sugar, lime juice and lime zest.
Ingredients
- 500 ml cream (25% fat)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup sugar depending on sourness of limes
- 1 pinch salt
- 30 ml lime juice (or more, according to taste)
- 2 tsp lime zest
- shortbread or gingernut cookies to serve
- sprigs mint for garnishing
Instructions
- Put the cream, vanilla extract and sugar in a pan and place it on medium to low heat. Keep stirring the cream till the sugar dissolves completely
- Add the salt, stir and turn off the heat. The cream should be somewhere between warm and hot. The exact temperature does not matter. Do not bring the cream to boil.
- Add the lime juice and keep stirring till incorporated. The cream will start becoming quite thick. Also stir in the lime zest.
- Keep it aside for about 5 minutes, stir once again a couple of times, till the Posset is smooth.
- Divide the mixture between 4 dessert bowls/ dishes or 6 shot glasses. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least a couple of hours.
- Just before serving, garnish with mint. Serve with shortbread or crisp cookies.