Recipe: Granita

Name: Granita
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Very simple to make and inexpensive, they do not require an ice-cream maker and they are kept in the freezer compartment of the fridge rather than in the freezer.; Here we will give you the basic recipes for the two main types of granita: the fruit based ones and the alcohol based ones.

By chef patrick Asfaux 4.3/5 (12 reviews) · 🍳 26 made it

Recipe Granita - Chef Patrick Asfaux — Photo: © arthaudphil - Fotolia.com

Prep 5 min

Total 5 min

Les granités sont des desserts pratiques car il ne demandent pas de sorbetières ,on les moulent dans les bacs à glaçons et on les entreposent au congélateur

Ingredients

Very simple to make and inexpensive, they do not require an ice-cream maker and they are kept in the freezer compartment of the fridge rather than in the freezer.
Here we will give you the basic recipes for the two main types of granita: the fruit based ones and the alcohol based ones.

Step-by-step directions

Fruit based granita recipe:

Take 1/2.1 qt (2 litre) of fruit juice of your choice (orange, passion fruit, pineapple, mango, etc), mix in 5.25 oz (150g) of caster sugar into the juice. Fill your ice-cube trays or tiny cups and put them in the freezer compartment of your fridge.

Basic recipe for alcohol based granita (in france known as trou normand (with calvados) or for Patrick our Chef prefers to refer to them as trou Gascon(with armagnac))

Bring 3.75 cups (90cl) of water with 7 oz (200g) of caster sugar to the boil. Let this syrup cool down and add 0.4 cup (10 cl) of alcohol of your choice (calvados, vodka, tequila, champagne, etc). Proceed as for the fruit granita and put them in the feezer compartment of your fridge.

They are very much appreciated, served just before the main dish of a meal.