Thursday 8 April 2010

Lucious Lemon Lips

Are you still licking your lips from the Easter chocolate fest? Here's something to clean your palette and begin the come down.....and give you lucious lemon lips....



LEMON GRANITA

Granita is a really fun and easy spring and summer cooler. It’s also great served as an inbetween course at a dinner party and is sure to have your guests pulling lemon faces! For an even more bitter lemon flavour you could put the grated lemon rind in the pan with the juice and then strain it out when pouring the syrup into the pan. Oh, and a Granita is an Italian Ice...how posh is that?! the word I mean. not the ice bit.

Juice of 6 lemons
200g caster sugar

Place the lemon juice and sugar in a medium pan and add 300ml of water. Bring slowly to the boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves and then simmer for 5 minutes. Pour into a wide container with a lid suitable for the freezer and leave to cool completely.

Cover tightly and freeze for about 5-6 hours. Stir every 15-20 minutes for the first couple of hours and then every 30 minutes for a further hour. This helps prevent large crystals forming. When ready to serve, scrape the granita up into shards and spoon into pretty glasses.

6 comments:

birdie blue said...

Who wouldn't want lemon lips?
Your blog is darling!

GardenOfDaisies said...

I love anything lemon and this looks wonderful! I watched Giada make granita once and it doesn't look like it would be too hard, just time consuming.

Lilly Higgins said...

Yum! this looks gorgeous. So refreshing after a big Indian meal or something spicy. The photos you did were beautiful in Neven Maguires easter article in The Farmers Journal. Now you know I get the Farmers Journal! It keeps me updated on calf prices. x

m said...

this looks lovely and I am actually licking my lips !!! That's lemons to add to the shopping list :o)

Hearts Turned said...

So glad I found your lovely blog today--what fun! Love the recipes & photos you've been sharing--just perfect!

I'm your newest follower & I'll be back often to say hello & see what's cooking i your Cottage!

Hope you're having a wonderful Sunday!

Jennifer said...

Nice post thanks for sharingg

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