Fruit of summer: Fun and weird ways to consume grapes
Glasses of fresh orange sorbet (L) and fresh grape sorbet (R). (Shutterstock Photo)

From salads to pickles, and sorbets to traditional Turkish hoşaf, there are endless, fun and intriguingly weird ways to use grapes to make healthy snacks. Here are some recipes for imaginative ways to consume this special seasonal fruit



All kinds of grapes are in season right now, and while they make for a healthy snack and inspire you to imitate the old Roman style of consuming them ... it can get tedious. While a tart with fresh fruit is the classic take, here are some other ways you can pep up the seasonal fruit!

Ice cubes

In my previous text, I hinted at the idea of using everything but water to cool your drinks. The aim was to avoid watering down your carefully prepared drinks. Well, another very fancy way of doing this is to freeze the titular fruit. Just clean them first, pluck them off their stems, and then after drying them off, throw them into the freezer.

First I’d recommend doing it in a single layer, and once they are completely frozen you can toss them into a container fit for the freezer. This serves two purposes: First they are likely to not stick together, even if they do, it is easier to pull the single layer apart; secondly, they are likely to freeze faster.

Grape sorbet. (Shutterstock Photo)

Quick sorbet

To continue with the frozen theme we have a very easy sorbet recipe for you. And considering that you control how much sugar goes in there, it is most definitely more healthy than the commercially available ones.

Ingredients