Saturday 8 October 2011

Lychee Granita

I am having a dinner party tonight and have been searching for something to serve in the divine Moroccan Tea Glasses I purchased...... and thought up Lychee Granita as a pallet cleanser.... of course a quick google provided this.... by Seasaltwithfood... love it....(I will report back post dinner party to show you how it worked!)...





Lychee Granita
Ingredients
500g Fresh Lychee
300 ml Water
6-8 Tbsp Sugar
1 tsp Lime or Lemon Juice

Method
Peel the lychee and remove the pits. Blend lychee, water, sugar and lime juice until completely smooth. Press the mixture through a mesh strainer.

To freeze granita, pour the mixture into the dish and place in the freezer. Begin checking it after about 1 hour. Once it begins to freeze around the edges, take a fork and stir the mixture, breaking up the frozen parts near the edges into smaller chunks and raking them toward the center.

Return the dish to the freezer, then check the mixture every 30 minutes afterward, stirring each time and breaking up any large chunks into small pieces with a fork, until you have a beautiful, fine crystals of homemade granita. If any time the granita freezes too hard, simply leave it out at room temperature for a few minutes until it softens enough to be stirred again with a fork, and rake it back into crystals. Then return it to the freezer.



Images and recipe from Seasaltwithfood!


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1 comment:

  1. And indeed it was a hit with the partygoers!! It was divine Kel, x

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