Maple Citrus Granite

Name: Maple Citrus Granite
Prep time: 8 h 20 min
Cook time: 8 h 20 min
Total time: 8 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters lemon juice; 59 milliliters lemon and orange zest; 59 milliliters maple syrup; 59 milliliters shredded mint, optional; 59 milliliters orange juice; 79 milliliters sugar; 296 milliliters water

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Maple Citrus Granite From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 8 hours and 20 minutes.

Instructions

In a saucepan, mix water, sugar, lemon juice, orange juice, maple syrup and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer without stirring until all the sugar has dissolved, about 3 to 5 minutes.

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Orange Juice

Lemon Juice

Maple Syrup

Sugar

Water

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Sauce Pan

Remove pot from the heat and let syrup cool completely.

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Syrup

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Pot

Add the lemon, orange zest, mint leaves, and pour into a shallow baking dish or plastic container and place in the freezer. (The 6 cup capacity shallow plastic containers with a lid that measure 6 inches by 10 inches by 2 inches deep, and which you can get in grocery stores would be ideal for the purpose.)

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Mint

Orange Zest

Lemon

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Baking Pan

Check after about 2 hours and stir the mixture. After about 4 hours, the mixture will have begun to set up, and you can score the surface by turning a spoon backwards and using the tip to scrape the frozen syrup into "ice curls." Repeat this scraping process periodically, every 2 hours or so, until all of the syrup is scraped into the consistency of water ice.

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Syrup

Water

Ice