Granita di Limone - Italian Recipe

Granita di Limone

🌍 Italian, Sicily Difficulty: ●●●○○

Sicilian lemon ice, coarser than sorbet and scraped with a fork rather than churned. The sugar syrup must be cold before the lemon juice is added, or the acid prevents full dissolution. Freeze in a shallow tray and scrape every thirty minutes until the texture is crystalline.

Ingredients

• 500ml water
• 200g sugar
• 200ml fresh lemon juice
• Lemon zest

Method

1. Making — Make syrup with water and sugar; cool.
2. Adding — Add lemon juice and zest.
3. Freezing — Freeze in shallow tray; scrape with fork every 30 min for 3–4 hours.
4. Serving — Serve in glasses.

Tags: sugar, fresh lemon juice, lemon zest · Source: Brittani's Almanac