Granita

Name: Granita
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 250ml fresh lemon juice (or strong coffee, or almond milk); 200g sugar; 500ml water; Brioche buns, to serve (optional)

Granita siciliana/grah-NEE-tah/

Also known as: Granita Siciliana, Sicilian Granita, Granita con Brioche

About this dish

A Sicilian semi-frozen dessert of coarse, slushy ice crystals flavoured with lemon, almond, coffee or fruit.

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Ingredients

🍋250ml fresh lemon juice (or strong coffee, or almond milk)

🍬200g sugar

💧500ml water

🍞Brioche buns, to serve (optional)

Method

Serves 2

Dissolve the sugar in the water over heat, then cool.

Stir in the lemon juice (or coffee or almond milk).

Pour into a shallow container and freeze.

Every 30 minutes, scrape and stir with a fork to break up the crystals, for about 3 hours.

Serve in glasses, with a brioche on the side.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

In Sicily, granita is eaten for breakfast in summer with a soft brioche (granita con brioche); almond and black mulberry are favourites.

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