Strawberry granita, the perfect summer treat!
This strawberry granita is the answer to all your frozen dessert needs!
With summer just round the corner, we definitely need some frozen treat recipes up our sleeves. If the treat happens to be less calorie dense and relatively healthy, it gets everyone’s attention!
What if its super easy to make? No cooking involved! Definitely interested!
What if you don’t need any fancy ice cream maker? Now you are talking!
What if it needs only a few ingredients? Yesss!
Want to make a frozen treat but no Popsicle mold? No problem!
What makes strawberry granita special?
- Super easy dessert
- This frozen dessert needs no fancy ingredient or equipment
- It’s lighter on calories
- Easily vegan
- Gluten free
- Looks fancy!
- Can be made refined sugar free.
- Tastes fresh and refreshing, perfect frozen treat!
That’s strawberry granita for you! A perfect summer dessert! Granita, the easy-going cousin of sorbet is fluffier and crunchier than sorbet (which is smoother). This means you don’t need an ice cream machine to make strawberry granita. A blender and a fork is all you need!
I love granitas made using fresh fruits as they are all natural. Berries and citrus fruits work great! Watermelon too!
While granita does not require hard work, it does need a mixing every hour until nice and flaky. Set an alarm and get started!
Check out more such easy recipes like my Almond flour snack balls
Strawberry granita, the easiest frozen treat
Equipment
- blender to blend, fork to scrape
Ingredients
- 5 Strawberries
- 2 tbsp Sugar or add more honey/maple syrup to make it refined sugar free
- 1 tbsp Honey/maple syrup if not using, increase sugar by 1 tablespoon
- 1/2 cup Water + extra if needed
- 1/2 tbsp Lime/lemon juice
Instructions
- Take strawberries in a blender along with sugar and water. If not vegan, add the honey too.Optionally also add in lime/lemon juice. It definitely adds some freshness!
- Pass the mixture through a sieve if you don’t want seeds in your granita.
- Taste and dilute with more water as needed. Add more sugar if needed.
- Transfer the mixture into a wide, freezer safe container. Mine was a 6×5 bowl. The container has to be wide so that, the liquid is not more than 1 inch tall. The height of liquid needs to be low so that it freezes quickly enough.
- After an hour in the freezer, remove and with the help of a fork, scrape the edges of the container where the mixture would have started to freeze. Set it back in the fridge.Note: If your bowl is wider than 6×5 inches you can consider mixing at half an hour intervals.
- After another hour, get it out of the freezer again and stir breaking up the juice that has frozen. It may look like a slush at this point.
- Continue this every hour until the mixture is fluffy and starts looking dry. It will stop looking like a slush and magically takes on a more dry and flaky appearance. The time required may vary based on your freezer and the width of the bowl used.
Notes
- Regular stirring of the slush ensures pretty crystals of granita. If you forget to do this for a few hours, it would still taste the same but may not look all that pretty.
- If you completely forget about it and it freezes like a brick, melt it until it resembles a slush, mix and put it back in the fridge and remember to take it out and mix it in another hour!
- You can store the granita in the freezer for a couple of days. Once it turns dry and flaky, it will retain the same texture.
- Granita can be made vegan by using maple syrup or other vegan sweeteners.
- Make granita refined-sugar free, by skipping the sugar and using only honey/maple syrup.
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Yumm. It is a perfect summer treat at this time when we don’t want to go out and enjoy such treats. We are enjoying it at home without any regret.😋
It sure is a perfect summer treat!
I am gonna try this !!
Thank you! Let me know how it turned out!
Mouth-watering…
Thank you!
Never tried this. Looks so appetizing! Definitely going to make this 😊
great! do let me know how it turns out!
Tried this, it was so easy to make and kids loved it! Definitely a keeper 👍 thank you!😊
It sure is easy! So glad your kids liked it 🙂 Thank you so much for trying and for the feedback!
Awesome
Thank you!
Great
Thank you!
Super Shwetha
Thank you!
Yeahh.. you are here.. Awesome.. 😘😘
Thank you!