The warm weather is here, and so you will want a dessert that will cool you down. Cool down Italian-style with granita!
Granita takes a little time to make, but it's really very simple. You need two cups of water, 1/2 cup of sugar, and two oranges.
First, grate the peel of one orange, and set aside. Mix water and sugar and boil till sugar dissolves; let cool. Juice oranges and add juice and peel to the sugar solution. Mix well, pour into a container, and put into freezer. Once frozen, remove from freezer, cut into chunks, and run them through the blender or food processor until it is reduced to small crystals. Spoon it into serving glasses and enjoy.
You can use lemons instead of oranges, but you might want to add a little more sugar since lemons are so tart. If you look around, you can find recipes for many different flavors of granita, but this is the basic scheme.
Granita takes a little time to make, but it's really very simple. You need two cups of water, 1/2 cup of sugar, and two oranges.
First, grate the peel of one orange, and set aside. Mix water and sugar and boil till sugar dissolves; let cool. Juice oranges and add juice and peel to the sugar solution. Mix well, pour into a container, and put into freezer. Once frozen, remove from freezer, cut into chunks, and run them through the blender or food processor until it is reduced to small crystals. Spoon it into serving glasses and enjoy.
You can use lemons instead of oranges, but you might want to add a little more sugar since lemons are so tart. If you look around, you can find recipes for many different flavors of granita, but this is the basic scheme.
