Definition of granita
:a coarse-textured ice confection typically made from fruit
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The recipes are based on granitas so no special equipment is needed and they can be used for frozen cocktails or poptails in tart, sweet, spiced or floral flavors.
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Finish with a Straus Greek yogurt panna cotta topped with yuzu granita, puffed rice, and rubylike pomegranate seeds.
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The Frisky Oyster is another special, featuring six raw oysters topped with rosé granita, candied grapefruit, and pink peppercorn (market price).
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Beyond the roster of compelling flavors like rose is also a slew of semifreddo and quenching granita alternatives.
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Even desserts incorporate greens, like scoops of olive oil sorbet with thin slices of radish and preserved cucumber on a bed of cucumber-and-mint granita.
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Other plates include charcuterie and cheese boards ($11 to $13); local Blue Point Oysters ($3 apiece) and oyster crudo with watermelon granita ($10.)
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At Hugo’s in Portland, Maine, Chef-owner Mike Wiley turns sauerkraut into a savory granita for a cured and smoked fish dish with frozen crème fraiche and seeded crackers, made in-house from a sourdough mother.
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Instead, freeze it and then blend the cubes in the blender for a wine granita.
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Origin and Etymology of granita
Italian, from feminine of granito, past participle of granire
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