Lemon and lime granita
- Published: 31 Jul 06
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
This lemon and lime granita recipe has the tangy flavour of fresh lemons and limes – and hardly any calories.
For an iced dessert with a caffeine kick, try espresso granita.
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Serves 4
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Takes 20 minutes to make, plus cooling and freezing
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Ingredients
- 2 large juicy lemons
- 2 juicy limes
- 100g caster sugar
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Method
- Peel the zest from the lemons and limes with a potato peeler and chop roughly. Put the sugar, 150ml water and zest into a pan and stir over a gentle heat, until the mixture comes to a simmer and the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and cool.
- Squeeze the juice from the lemons and limes and stir into the sugar syrup. Strain the mixture into a shallow freezerproof container with a lid, cover, and freeze until the mixture begins to freeze at the edges – about 2 hours.
- Scrape all the ice from the sides of the box and break up into smaller crystals with a fork. Re-cover and return to the freezer. Repeat every 30 minutes, until you have a frozen but grainy mixture. Return to the freezer until you are ready to serve.
- Spoon into tall glass tumblers, decorate with a twist of lemon or lime zest, if you like, and serve.
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- Recipe from August 2006 Issue
Nutrition
Nutrition: per serving
- Calories
- 101kcals
- Fat
- trace (trace saturated)
- Protein
- 0.1g
- Carbohydrates
- 26.8g (26.8g sugars)
- Salt
- Trace
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