Cherry granita instead of ice cream: you only need 4 ingredients
If regular ice cream is a rather high-calorie dish for you, you should make a delicious cherry granita. This is a juice-based dessert that contains absolutely no milk. Granita is cool and refreshing – just what you need in hot summer weather.
The recipe for cherry granita from the famous chef Alex Yakutov was published by the press service of the New Channel (novy_channel) on its official Instagram page.
Cherry granita recipe
Source: Screenshot of the post on the New Channel page
Ingredients:
- cherries – 1-1.5 kg
- sugar – 300 g
- juice of half a lemon
- water – 300 ml
Method of preparation:
Cherries for dessert
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1. Cherry halves and remove the pits.
2. Let the juice drain. Use fresh juice for the granita, and the cherries can be dried for the winter.
3. Put the juice in a saucepan over low heat, add sugar and heat to dissolve.
Remove the pits from the cherries
4. Squeeze the lemon juice.
5. Add 300 ml of water to 0.5 liters of cherry juice. Mix everything well.
Cherry juice for dessert
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6. Do not bring to a boil, just heat. Remove from heat and cool.
7. Stir again and put in the freezer for 1-1.5 hours.
8. Take out and loosen the ice with a fork. The juice will be frozen around the edges, but not inside. Mix everything, and put it back in the freezer.
Cherries for dessert
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9. After a while, remove it and repeat the procedure.
10. Loosen the ice so many times that you get an almost creamy texture. It turns out a wonderful natural dessert.
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