Granita pineapple and mango dessert

Fruit ice, a delicious and refreshing dessert! The preparation of Granite does not require as much time and care as the preparation of traditional milk ice cream. You don't need an ice cream maker either, it's enough to have a blender to make mashed potatoes, combine the ingredients and then freeze. The taste of Granite can be different, depending on what ingredients are included in its composition. More often they are prepared from citrus fruits, watermelon, melon, strawberries, cranberries, blackberries.. the list is quite large. Isn't this a reason to choose what your soul wants and cook. Experiment !
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 0 % 0 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 100 % 18 g
79 kcal
GI: 0 / 39 / 61

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 4 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the products. Wash the fruits.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut the pineapple in half, cut out the hard core, it is not needed. I was making a 1/2 pineapple dessert. If you cook from the whole, just cut off the top and bottom, then cut the peel to a layer of pulp.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cut pineapple and mango pulp into medium pieces.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    In the blender bowl, as tougher, first chop the pineapple pieces.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Then add and chop the mango.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Taste the resulting puree, do not add all the sugar at once, just a couple of tablespoons is enough. Then pour in the water and mix until smooth in short pulses. If necessary, add sugar. It is more useful to add liquid honey, who can not use the usual sugar substitutes. The pineapple and mango mix is sweet enough, so you can add a minimum of sweetener or do without it at all, but it certainly tastes better with sweet.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    And the final touch to improve the taste; add lemon juice and lemon balm or mint leaves. Once again, twist everything until smooth.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Pour the resulting mixture into a plastic container, close it tightly and put it in the freezer. The fruit mass freezes for a long time, it will take at least 4 hours, you can leave it overnight.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    To get the right structure, you need to get it out every hour, break off a large enough piece with a fork, mix, but not mince it and remove it to freeze again. I interfered 2 times during the first three hours. The result is a bright, beautiful fruit freeze with patches of ice.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    We put the fruit dessert in creamers or martini glasses and serve immediately. You can sprinkle chopped nuts or small pieces of mango and pineapple on top, decorate at your discretion. The taste of frozen fruits is dulled by the cold, but the dessert melts very quickly. The melted one becomes sweeter and more fragrant.

Granita (granite) (ital. Granita) is a historical Sicilian dessert, like wet snow or crushed fruit ice with sugar.

The dessert got its name for small inclusions of ice resembling the structure of granite stone.

Dessert can be prepared on sugar with the addition of water, or you can cook syrup and dilute fruit puree with it.

Granite is usually made from fresh, very ripe fruits or seasonal berries. The composition of the puree may include nuts, mint, jasmine, coffee and alcoholic beverages.
Even Chocolate granita is being prepared.

In addition to an independent dish, Granite can be included as a component in the recipe for alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails.

Dessert is very good at any time, especially pleasant and refreshing in hot weather.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Pineapples - 49   kcal/100g
  • Canned pineapples - 57   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Mango - 67   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Melissa - 0   kcal/100g

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