Lemon Granita
A refreshing dessert featuring fresh ingredients from the tropical fruit category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 100 g sugar
- 6 untreated lemons
- 40 ml apple juice
- mint leaves (optional)
Instructions
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1.
Add the sugar to 200 ml water in a pot and simmer gently for about 5 minutes, then remove from heat.
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2.
Halve the lemons and squeeze out the juice. Remove the skin from four halves and keep them refrigerated. From another half cut off some zest into fine strips for garnish; grate the zest from yet another half. Stir the lemon juice with the grated zest and apple juice into the syrup and let cool. Pour the liquid into a shallow metal bowl and freeze in the freezer for at least 4 hours, stirring every 30 minutes with a fork.
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3.
Scrape the frozen granita with a sharp-edged spoon. Fill the chilled lemon halves and garnish immediately with lemon zest and mint.
