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Melon Granita

Buy very ripe melons with a sweet fragrance that you can smell from a distance.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 6

Ingredients

2 medium melons
Juice of 1 lemon
3/4 cup sugar, or to taste
1/2–1 tablespoon orange-blossom water, to taste

Preparation

  1. Cut open the melons. Peel and remove the seeds. Cut the flesh into pieces and blend in the food processor—with the lemon juice, sugar, and orange-blossom water—to a liquid pulp. You should have about 6 cups. The amount of sugar depends on how sweet the melons are. Continue following the “basic method” (page 423).

Cover of Claudia Roden's The New Book of Middle Easter Food, featuring a blue filigree bowl filled with Meyer lemons and sprigs of mint.
Reprinted with permission from The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, copyright © 2000 by Claudia Roden, published by Knopf. Buy the full book on Amazon or Bookshop.
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