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+title: Granita
+tags: ['fasting', 'italian', 'lemon', 'sweet', 'traditional']
+date: 2025-09-25
+author: "pestanzul"
+---
+
+![Granita](/pix/granita.webp)
+
+- ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min + 15 h
+- 🍽️ Servings: 6-8
+
+## Ingredients
+
+- 3 lemons
+- 125 g sugar
+
+## Directions
+
+1. Squeeze the lemons.
+   Remove the seeds, but keep both juice and pulp.
+2. Put in a pot the sugar, 175 g of lemon juice and pulp, and 300 ml of water.
+   For the freezing to work as expected, it's important that you don't alter the proportions.
+3. Boil for 10 minutes.
+   You should obtain a syrup with fibers floating in it: if you see pieces bigger than a few millimeters, get rid of them with a blender.
+4. Add 700 ml of water and stir.
+5. Wait for the solution to cool down to room temperature.
+6. Pour it in a container that can be frozen.
+   Plastic ones are usually a good choice, whereas glass ones are often cracked by the increase in water volume.
+7. Put it in the freezer.
+8. Now, for the most boring part: you must prevent the separation of the ingredients due to the freezing process, and the formation of one huge ice block.
+   To do so, every 2 hours you must stir vigorously with a fork (if you need, after the first 6 hours you can usually decrease to once every 4 hours).
+   Take some special cares:
+   - _stir even if you don't see any ice yet_: there may already be small crystals
+   - if you find any ice block, make sure to break them down
+   - don't worry if the ice melts when you stir: the water stays cold and will freeze again fast enough
+9. Depending on the temperature, the whole thing may take much time to freeze: it's not unusual for it to require up to 20 hours.
+   That's expected and depends also on the amount of sugar and fruit.
+   Granita is ready when in the container there are only ice crystals: no liquid water and no ice blocks.
+   You can then use a spoon to serve in small cups.
+10. If you don't consume all granita at once, it may freeze to a block.
+    If that happens, just scratch it with the spoon or break it with a fork.
+
+Granita is traditionally prepared with lemons, but you can replace them with any other fruit (the riper, the better), provided you peel it.
+If you do so, you will need to cook it longer and blend with a blender: the flavour must be released to the water and the sugar.
+You may also want to use a little less sugar, but don't reduce it too much, or you will get solid ice instead of granita.