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Pink Grapefruit Granita

I know people who are grapefruit dependent. They’re addicted to starting their day with half a pink grapefruit. They absolutely have to have one, and frankly, that’s a little odd to me. It’s not that I don’t like grapefruits, and I often buy them with the intention of following in the healthy footsteps of my grapefruit-dependent friends. But the next morning I wake up and honestly can’t seem to face anything but a much-needed, soothing pot of coffee and a couple of nonconfrontational slices of buttered toast. Later in the day, those pink grapefruits become more and more appealing though, and I’ll slice one in half and greedily attack the sections, slurping up the plentiful juice while perched over the sink to contain the mess from my assault. So perhaps I do have some grapefruit issues of my own, but I wait until later in the day before I succumb and take my tumble off the citrus wagon.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    makes about 1 quart (1 liter)

Ingredients

4 cups (1 liter) freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice (from about 4 or 5 grapefruits)
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons (180 g) sugar

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    In a small, nonreactive saucepan, warm 1/2 cup (125 ml) of the grapefruit juice with the sugar, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Stir the syrup back into the grapefruit juice, then freeze according to the instructions for freezing granita on page 145.

  2. Perfect Pairing

    Step 2

    Serve Pink Grapefruit Granita in tall Champagne flutes with a rather dry Champagne or sparkling wine poured over the top, along with a few fresh raspberries or wild strawberries.

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