Make a seasonal dessert with 5 ingredients maximum? Challenge met with this smart selection.
How to make a summer fruit dessert?
Superstar fruits
As with summer recipes with less than 5 ingredients, these desserts must rely on a strong main ingredient with a strong taste. For this game, seasonal fruits or even chocolate are perfect. Strawberries, peaches, apricots, raspberries, red fruits or nectarines are all suitable. But other products also serve as the basis for a dessert in the tone of the season, such as fromage blanc or whipped cream, which is flavored with honey or orange blossom.
Minute preparations
Whether poached, roasted, mixed, or mashed, summer fruits don't need much to make a recipe. Simply garnished with a dairy product, transformed into sorbet or fruit jellies, or simply cut nicely into carpaccio, no need for an endless list of ingredients to enjoy.
Magical herbs
To enhance the flavor of fruits, aromatic herbs are perfect. Tempering the very present sugar of summer products, they add freshness and a herbaceous flavor to the whole. Verbena, for example, goes wonderfully with peach or strawberry; rosemary with apricot; raspberry or strawberry and basil; peach and thyme, etc.
Ice cream, summer’s ally
We sometimes have the impression that making ice cream is complicated or out of reach… Nope! Firstly, not all ice cream requires the use of an ice cream maker. Some, like ice cream sticks, are poured directly into a mold, and wait patiently in the freezer until they set in the cold.
Also, not all ice creams need a lot of ingredients to be made, like the mint ice cream below, made with sweetened and flavored milk (milk + sugar + mint). Same pattern with milk chocolate ice cream which does not contain eggs. It is therefore a milk base enhanced with chocolate that is churned, and not, as in other recipes, a custard.
All these differences allow the creation of easy and delicious recipes, requiring few ingredients, often with the same base: a liquid element + a sweetening product + a perfume.
To follow: 20 seasonal desserts to make with 5 ingredients maximum.
Strawberry sorbet
© Céline Puertas
- 6 persons
- Level: Easy
- 15 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Strawberry sorbet
Apricot, nougat and rosemary skewers
© Pierre Baëlen
- 4 people
- Level: Easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Apricot, nougat and rosemary skewers
Moroccan mint ice cream
© Laurent Rouvrais
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 20 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Moroccan mint ice cream
Crispy strawberry cornflakes, chocolate and Piedmont hazelnuts
© Emanuela Cino
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 20 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Crispy strawberry cornflakes, chocolate and Piedmont hazelnuts
Corsican organic lemon sorbet
© Céline Puertas
- 12 people
- Level: Very easy
- 15 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Corsican organic lemon sorbet
Fontainebleau house
© Nathalie Carnet
- 2 persons
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Homemade Fontainebleau
Figs with balsamic vinegar
© Danièle Gerkens
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Figs with balsamic vinegar
Cottage cheese mousse, crushed strawberries
© Jean-Claude Amiel
- 4 people
- Level: Easy
- 20 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Cottage cheese mousse, crushed strawberries
Mozzarella and honey ice cream
© Virginie Garnier
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Mozzarella and honey ice cream
Dark chocolate mousse made with whipped cream
© Pierre Baëlen
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 15 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Dark chocolate mousse made with whipped cream
Raspberry and basil tart
© Jean-François Mallet
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 15 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Raspberry and basil tart
Poached apricots with basil
© Danièle Gerkens
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Poached apricots with basil
Peach and thyme granita
© Christophe Roué
- 6 persons
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Peach and thyme granita
Strawberry and avocado salad
© Danièle Gerkens
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Strawberry and avocado salad
Canned peaches with verbena syrup
© David Japy
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Canned peaches with verbena syrup
Milk chocolate ice cream
© Laurent Rouvrais
- 6 persons
- Level: Very easy
- 20 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Milk chocolate ice cream
Avocado, honey, vanilla paletas
© Matt Russell
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Paletas avocado, honey, vanilla
Roasted apricots, raspberries
© Akiko Ida
- 4 people
- Level: Very easy
- 5 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Roasted apricots, raspberries
Strawberry carpaccio and verbena syrup
© Akiko Ida
- 2 persons
- Level: Very easy
- 5 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Strawberry carpaccio and verbena syrup
Strawberry fruit jellies
© Akiko Ida
- 10 people
- Level: Very easy
- 10 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Strawberry fruit jellies