Vanilla Plum Granita

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YOU NEED

400ml of fresh plum juice

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

4 tablespoons of pure maple syrup

 

YOU DO

Whisk all ingredients together.

Pour the mixture into a chilled tray and place it into the freezer onto a flat surface

After an hour, use a fork to scrape the edges of the mixture that have started icing up and push it into the centre of the tray. Continue doing this every 20-30 minutes until all the mixture is completely flaked.

Serve in chilled glasses.

 

Serves: Serves 2

Time: Prep time is only about 10 minutes. Then simply allow for the freezing process.

Freeze: YUP

Notes: If you are not serving your granita straight away just place it into an air tight container in your freezer until you want to use it.

Red Pear & Ginger Granita

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YOU NEED

400ml of red pear juice

fresh ginger to taste

4 tablespoons of pure maple syrup

 

YOU DO

Whisk all ingredients together.

Pour the mixture into a chilled tray and place it into the freezer onto a flat surface

After an hour, use a fork to scrape the edges of the mixture that have started icing up and push it into the centre of the tray. Continue doing this every 20-30 minutes until all the mixture is completely flaked.

Serve in chilled glasses.

 

Serves: Serves 2

Time: Prep time is only about 10 minutes. Then simply allow for the freezing process.

Freeze: YUP

Notes: If you are not serving your granita straight away just place it into an air tight container in your freezer until you want to use it

Green Apple Granita

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 YOU NEED

400ml of fresh green apple juice
green food colouring
4 tablespoons of pure maple syrup

 

YOU DO
Whisk all ingredients together.

Pour the mixture into a chilled tray and place it into the freezer onto a flat surface

After an hour, use a fork to scrape the edges of the mixture that have started icing up and push it into the centre of the tray. Continue doing this every 20-30 minutes until all the mixture is completely flaked.

Serve in chilled glasses and eat before it melts!

 

Serves: Serves 2

Time: Prep time is only about 10 minutes. Then simply allow for the freezing process.

Freeze: YUP

Notes: If you are not serving your granita straight away just place it into an air tight container in your freezer until you want to use it.

 

Strawberry & Orange Pops

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YOU NEED

200mls of fresh strawberry juice

200mls of fresh orange juice

 

YOU DO

All you need to do is combine the strawberry and orange juice and and pour the miture into small paper baking cups and place in the freezer.

Wait until the pops have almost frozen through and/or a firm enough for you to be able to place a paddle pop stick into each then pop the sticks in the middle of each pop and allow them to freeze completely and serve.

 

Serves: Made 4 pops.

Time: Prep time of 5 minutes plus freezing time.

Freeze: YUP

Pineapple Basil Pops

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I struggled to stop myself drinking this it was so delicious!!!  I did however have some left to freeze into pops.

Basil is not everyone’s thing but its mine and combined with pineapple it’s a match made in heaven.

These would be perfect served at a finger food event or at the end of a dinner party for a fun finish on a warm day.

 

YOU NEED

400mls of fresh pineapple juice

fresh basil leaves to taste. I easily used a very loose ¾ – 1 cup because I LOVE basil. I suggest you do this to taste.

 

YOU DO

All you need to do is place the pineapple juice and basil into a blender and blend until they are well combined and the basil has broken down. Then place some baking cups onto a small tray and pour the pineapple and basil juice into the cups and place the tray in the freezer.

Wait until the pops have almost frozen through and/or a firm enough for you to be able to place a paddle pop stick into each then pop the sticks in the middle of each pop and allow them to freeze completely and serve.

 

Serves: Made 4 pops.

Time: 5 minutes of preparation. Plus freezing time.

Notes: If you have a juicer that presses, you can just pop the basil leaves into the juicer, as you juice the pineapple and it will press the basil beautifully. Otherwise simply blend the basil into the pineapple juice as the recipe explains and then even strain the mix if you don’t want any “bits”.

#Note that I had a VERY sweet pineapple so if your pineapple is not SUPER sweet your results will be different and you may need to add a little agave or pure maple syrup.

Watermelon & Rose Water Granita

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Looking through the “Juicepresso” recipe book I saw their watermelon “sorbet”. To me it is more like a granita but regardless of what you call it, it’s easy and delicious! They sweeten theirs with honey though so I simply subbed with pure maple syrup. I also added a little rosewater because rose reminds me of my late grandmother Bonnie <3

Would be interesting to also add basil or mint to this instead of the rosewater and I wonder if agave would be a better sweetener when doing a watermelon granita, only because watermelon has quite a delicate flavour that struggles a little to compete with the maple syrup.

This has got me in a granita mood so watch this space.

 

YOU NEED

400mls of watermelon juice, (I juiced a few cups of chopped organic watermelon in the Juicepresso until the measuring jug measured 400mls.)

4 tablespoons of pure maple syrup (or agave)

rose water to taste

 

YOU DO

Whisk all 3 ingredients together.

Pour the mixture into a chilled metal tray and place into the freezer.

After about an hour, use a fork to scrape the edges of the mixture that will have started icing up and push it into the centre of the tray. Continue doing this every 20 – 30 minutes until the entire mixture is completely flaked.

Serve in chilled glasses and eat it before it melts! 🙂

 

Serves: Serves 2

Time: Aside from the freezing time this recipes only takes a few minutes.

Corn & Orange Juice

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I have been playing with the “Juicepresso” that I have been asked to review. They have a Corn and Orange Juice among their recipes so I had a play with that today. This is what I love about being exposed to new things. I would never have thought of juicing corn! It has quite an earthy flavour and there are no quantities on the recipe though so I just juiced until the taste seemed balanced. I also added ginger and fresh lime to give the flavour a lift.

 

YOU NEED

the kernels of 3 cobs of corn (I used organic)

3 oranges, peeled and cut into quarters

1-2 cms of fresh ginger

1/2 fresh lime, peeled

 

YOU DO

Make sure your ingredients are chilled before you make your juice.

Then simply pop them through the juicer.

 

Serves: Serves 1-2.

Time: Took me about 5 minutes.

Freeze: Is preferable to drink straight away.