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Cantaloupe melon and mint granita

Frozen dessert recipes

Cantaloupe melon and mint granita

Our easy cantaloupe melon and mint granita is the perfect dessert for sultry summer days. Learn how to make this refreshing, four-ingredient granita with our simple recipe. Sunny summer flavours: “A ripe melon is an incredible thing, full of sweet honeyed flavours that are perfect captured in a granita,” says head of food Tom Shingler. “A little lemon lifts everything, while the mint adds to the refreshment without veering into toothpaste territory.” Quick and easy: all you need is four ingredients and five minutes prep time to make this no-churn iced dessert. You can even use a blender to whizz the finished frozen result into melt-in-the-mouth shards, rather than using a fork. Scale it up: this simple recipe is easily scaled up to feed a crowd. Keep cool this summer with more delicious frozen dessert recipes.

Dairy-freeFreezableGluten-freeVegan
ServesMakes about 500g (enough to serve 4)
Hands-on5 min
DifficultyEasy

Method

  1. Put the melon, sugar, lemon juice and around 5 mint leaves in a blender. Whizz until smooth. Give it a taste; how minty you like it will be down to personal preference, but you still want the flavour of the melon to lead things. Add a few more mint leaves if you like.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a shallow freezer-proof container, then freeze until solid. Once solid, scrape the mixture with a fork to create the granita (or break up the block and pulse a few times in a blender). Serve garnished with a mint leaf.

Nutrition

Per serving (Makes about 500g (enough to serve 4))
Calories47kcals
Fat0g
Protein0.5g
Carbohydrates9.6g (9.6g sugars)
Fibre1.3g

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