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title: Granita
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tags: ['fasting', 'italian', 'lemon', 'sweet', 'traditional']
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date: 2025-09-25
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author: "pestanzul"
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---
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- ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min + 15 h
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- 🍽️ Servings: 6-8
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## Ingredients
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- 3 lemons
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- 125 g sugar
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## Directions
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1. Squeeze the lemons.
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Remove the seeds, but keep both juice and pulp.
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2. Put in a pot the sugar, 175 g of lemon juice and pulp, and 300 ml of water.
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For the freezing to work as expected, it's important that you don't alter the proportions.
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3. Boil for 10 minutes.
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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.
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4. Add 700 ml of water and stir.
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5. Wait for the solution to cool down to room temperature.
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6. Pour it in a container that can be frozen.
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Plastic ones are usually a good choice, whereas glass ones are often cracked by the increase in water volume.
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7. Put it in the freezer.
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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.
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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).
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Take some special cares:
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- _stir even if you don't see any ice yet_: there may already be small crystals
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- if you find any ice block, make sure to break them down
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- don't worry if the ice melts when you stir: the water stays cold and will freeze again fast enough
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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.
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That's expected and depends also on the amount of sugar and fruit.
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Granita is ready when in the container there are only ice crystals: no liquid water and no ice blocks.
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You can then use a spoon to serve in small cups.
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10. If you don't consume all granita at once, it may freeze to a block.
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If that happens, just scratch it with the spoon or break it with a fork.
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Granita is traditionally prepared with lemons, but you can replace them with any other fruit (the riper, the better), provided you peel it.
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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.
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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.
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