Granité

On New Years Eve we had a 6 course menu which called for a Granité before the main course to help the appetite. This one is from a cook book called "Gourmet" for nybegynnere by Øivind Hjelle which means "Gourmet for starters". It's in Norwegian so only my Norwegian followers will benefit from that book. That's a pity because it's really good.

Ingredients;

2 inch european cucumber, peeled
1/2 pound of melon (green or yellow), peeled
1 tbs of chopped fresh rosemary
Juice from 1/2 lemon
1 tbs honey (not in the original recipe but added by me)


Cut the cucumber and melon in large chunks. Have them in the bowl attachment to a hand blender together with the rosemary, lemon juice and honey and puree.

I had all the ingredients in my Ice-cream maker and had it run for approx. 20 minutes. If you don't have an Ice-cream maker pour the mix into a bowl and put it in the freezer until deep frozen then using a fork scrape the ice into flakes and put into could glasses. (This is actually the right way to do it for the granité but I prefer the other way because its easier. You don't get the flakes but it tastes equally good in my opinion.)

Enjoy!!