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Tropical Fruit Granita

2.9

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A light dessert that is made extra easy by the use of purchased fruit juice. No ice cream maker required.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Serves 6

Ingredients

3 cups tropical fruit juice blend (such as pineapple-orange-passion fruit)
4 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons dark rum
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Stir juice and sugar in large bowl until sugar dissolves. Add rum, lime juice and vanilla. Pour mixture into shallow baking dish. Freeze until mixture is entirely crystallized, stirring frequently and scraping crystals from around edges, about 5 hours. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Cover and keep frozen.)

    Step 2

    Using tines of fork, scrape frozen juice mixture to form small flakes. Spoon granita into goblets and serve.

Nutrition Per Serving

Per Serving: calories
119; total fat 0; saturated fat
0; cholesterol
0
#### Nutritional analysis provided by Bon Appétit
TagsGranitaFrozen DessertDessertFruit DessertNut FreeGluten FreeDairy FreeEasyMake AheadNo-CookBon Appétit
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