Lime, Tequila and Coconut Sorbet

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

  • About

This was designed as a palate cleanser to be served between courses during The Grange degustation. Cheong presented many different varieties – always based around a tropical fruit broth – but the lime, tequila and coconut combination was the most popular.

Method

It’s a delicious sorbet, with the tropical fruit broth built from boiled banana, pandan leaf and jackfruit with black basil seeds, to give that interesting spotty appearance. We dropped some tequila in because it works as a natural partner to the fresh lime –