Strawberry granita, the easiest frozen treat
Whip up a fancy looking tasty frozen treat with no fancy ingredients and equipments!
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 6x5 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 6x5 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.