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Watermelon Granita is an Italian frozen dessert made by blending watermelon pulp, water and sugar, freezing it until it turns semi solid, It is then flakes using a fork and then frozen again to get a grainy textured, frozen treat.
Ingredients:
Watermelon, chopped – 4 cups
Sugar – 1 cup
Water – 2 cups
Fresh Lemon Extract – 2 tbsps
Method:
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- Heat sugar and water to prepare a syrup.
- When it starts boiling, turn off the heat. Let it cool down to room temperature.
- Meanwhile, pulse watermelon pieces and make puree.
- Place the watermelon puree in a strainer/colander and strain out the seeds.
- Force the watermelon puree to pass through the strainer using a spoon. Discard the watermelon seeds.
- Now mix sugar syrup, lemon extract to the watermelon puree.
- Pour this mixture into a glass bowl and cover the bowl.
- Place it in the freezer.
- When the puree is firm, almost within an hour (depends on the temperature you set), scrape it using a fork.
- Place it again in the freezer and scrape it again using the fork. Do not keep the bowl out of freezer for long as it will start melting.
- You need to freeze it for total of 4-5 hours, scraping it once in every 30 minutes.
- Serve.
