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Prep Time: 30 Minutes Cook Time: 35 Minutes |
Ready In: 65 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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Created at the suggestion of Sharon123 during the Zaar World Tour 4. Does not count freezing and cooling time. Ingredients:
4 cups clear unsweetened apple juice |
10 mint leaves |
4 cups organic unsweetened applesauce |
7 tablespoons sugar |
2 tablespoons lemon juice, preferably fresh squeezed |
1/8 teaspoon salt |
Directions:
1. Mix apple juice and mint leaves and allow to combine overnight in refrigerator. Strain mint leaves out of apple juice.
2. Place a shallow metal pan in freezer. In a nonreactive saucepan, combine applesauce, mint flavored apple juice, sugar, lemon juice and salt. Bring to a boil, then simmer uncovered about 20 minutes.
3. Cool to room temperature.
4. Pour apple mixture into chilled pan; return to freezer. Stir every 20 minutes until it thickens into coarse crystals, about 1 hour.
5. Stir granita and mound into small cups. Serve immediately.
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