Best Celery Apple Granita Recipes

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Yield Makes 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 (1,000-mg) vitaminutes C tablet (ascorbic acid), crushed to a powder with back of a spoon
1/3 cup sugar
3 Granny Smith apples (1 1/2 pounds), cut lengthwise into 1-inch-thick sticks
6 medium celery ribs without leaves (1 pound)
1/2 teaspoon wasabi paste or powdered wasabi
1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons water
Flaky sea salt such as Maldon
1 to 2 tablespoons fruity extra-virgin olive oil
Equipment: an electric juice extractor

Steps:

Put crushed vitaminutes C and sugar in a 1-quart container that will fit under spout of juicer.
Using juicer, juice apples and celery into container. Spoon off foam and stir until sugar is dissolved.
Pour into an 8- to 9-inch square stainless-steel or glass baking pan and freeze until partially frozen, about 1 hour. Scrape and stir with a fork, crushing any lumps. Continue to freeze, scraping once or twice, until evenly frozen, about 2 hours more.
Stir together wasabi and enough water to make a pourable sauce.
Scrape granita to lighten, then serve sprinkled lightly with sea salt and drizzled lightly with oil and wasabi sauce.

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Provided by Shelley Wiseman

Yield Makes 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 (1,000-mg) tablet vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
2 Granny Smith apples, very coarsely chopped
2/3 cup water, divided
1 tablespoon chopped tarragon
4 cups very coarsely chopped celery ribs (from 1 bunch)
Equipment: a flour sack or linen cloth

Steps:

Crush vitamin C tablet in a bowl with back of a spoon, then line a sieve with dampened flour sack cloth and set over bowl.
Purée apples with 1/3 cup water in a food processor (do not use a blender) until almost smooth, then pour into cloth. Bunch up cloth around mixture and squeeze as much clear juice as possible through cloth (about 11/2 cups). Discard solids remaining in cloth. Rinse and wring out cloth, then return to sieve.
Purée tarragon with remaining 1/3 cup water in processor until water is deep green, then add celery and purée until almost smooth. Pour into lined sieve and squeeze out juices (about 1 1/2 cups) into bowl with apple juice. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
Freeze mixture in an 8-inch square baking dish, scraping and stirring with a fork every 30 minutes, until frozen, at least 3 hours. (It will be too hard to scrape once fully frozen.)

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Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 - 1.25lb bag of Dandy® Celery
3 medium-sized large green apples, core and seeds removed
Pinch kosher salt
1 1/2 cups simple syrup (dilution of equal parts sugar and water)
Juice of ½ lemon

Steps:

In the cuisinart®, blend the Dandy celery sticks, apple pieces and salt until a fine mash has occurred. Strain the celery and apple mixture through a fine sieve lined with cheesecloth, allow to drain for 2 hours. Add to the celery -apple mixture the simple syrup and lemon juice. To churn, follow the instructions provided by your ice cream machine for sorbet. Put churned mixture into a freezer safe container and freeze for at least 2 hours. Serve. Recipe by Chef Todd Fisher