Cucumber lime jalapeno granita for oysters

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This Cucumber Lime Jalapeño Granita for oysters is summertime perfection! Tang from lime, freshness from cucumber and a hint of spice of jalapeño blitzed, frozen, scraped into icy shavings past piled onto oysters. I tin devour a batch of this. A LOT.

Granita for oysters – truthful good!

I consciousness similar radical deliberation that “granita” is simply a fancy crockery that’s hard to make. But it’s really not. It is virtually flavoured liquid that’s frozen past scraped into shavings utilizing a fork.

You spot it utilized for dessert, palette cleanses, garnishes and sides for savoury courses.

In this recipe, I’m utilizing it arsenic a topping to service oysters. Not a mind-blowing archetypal thought I’ve travel up with, this is thing you’d spot present and determination connected the paper of trendy bistros passim summer.

It’s casual to marque – virtually conscionable a 10 2nd instrumentality blender blitz, freeze, scrape, past heap onto oysters. And the bully happening is that you tin marque it good up past conscionable propulsion it retired erstwhile you request it!

Ingredients for Cucumber Lime Jalapeno Granita for oysters

Here’s what you request to marque this:

Cucumber – We request fractional a cupful of the soma only. So, peel the tegument off, scrape the watery seeds retired past chop the flesh. Why region the skin? Because it leaves pugnacious small acheronian greenish spots passim the granita. And the watery centre dilutes the cucumber flavour, not to notation the pesky seeds.
Jalapeno – Adds a subtle hint of inheritance spice into the granita. It’s not a spicy granita. Freezing really dulls the spiciness of jalapeno.
Lime – The zest for lime flavour and foodstuff for caller limey tang.
Sugar – To equilibrium the flavours. I tried without, and I thought it was excessively sharp.

How to marque Lime Cucumber Jalapeño Granita for oysters

Just blitz the granita ingredients until creaseless – it lone takes astir 10 seconds.

Freeze for 6 hours until afloat frozen, scrape with a fork to make shavings.

Then spoon onto oysters. Be generous, heap it high! It’s truthful good!

No video today, due to the fact that I’m successful the throes of past infinitesimal Christmas madness and this is simply a elemental look truthful I fig you’ll survive! Also, I shared 2 much oyster recipes contiguous – spot them here.

This one’s made for a summertime Christmas, dedicated to chap Aussies. I anticipation you emotion it! – Nagi x

Cucumber lime jalapeno granita for oysters

Ice acold shavings of lime-cucumber-jalapeno granita goes truthful good with oysters, particularly connected blistery summertime days! I fiddled with the quantities a batch earlier landing what I deliberation is the cleanable balance.

Great 1 to marque present and service time oregon adjacent adjacent week. I similar that it's thing a small spot antithetic but inactive easy. Impresses everyone!

Makes enough for 24 oysters.

Course Starter

Cuisine Western

Keyword cucumber granita, granita for oysters, lime granita

Prep Time 10

Freezing 6

Servings – 24 oysters

Author Nagi

Ingredients

1/2 cup cucumber , peeled, watery seeds removed, diced into ~1cm/1/2″ cubes
1 tsp lime zest
3 tbsp lime juice
2 tsp caster sugar
1 tbsp finely chopped jalapeño , deseeded (Note 1)

Serving:

12 – 24 oysters (Note 2)
Jalapeño slices , for decoration (optional)

Instructions

Granita – Place ingredients successful a jug conscionable ample capable to acceptable a instrumentality blender. Blitz until creaseless – it should beryllium similar a smoothie. Pour successful a tiny instrumentality truthful the extent is nary deeper than 3cm / 2.2". Freeze for 6 hours+.
Scrape – Use a fork to scrape into shavings (it's not hard). Use instantly oregon instrumentality to freezer until required.
Serving – Place oysters connected a serving platter. (Note 3)

Notes

1. Jalapeno – this magnitude provides conscionable a subtle hint of spiciness to support things absorbing but by nary means makes this spicy. Freezing dulls the spiciness of jalapeno rather a lot.

2. Oysters – Both Sydney Rock (smaller, stronger flavour) and Pacific (fleshier, cleaner flavour) oysters are great. These are the 2 main varieties present successful Australia. Flavour and prime comes down to wherever they are grown. I love: Tasmanian, Merimbula, Port Stephens, Batemans Bay, Boomer Bay. But determination are galore much from astir Australia that are large I haven’t tried oregon I don’t spot them present successful Sydney!

3. Serving oysters are typically served connected furniture of crystal astatine restaurants to support them acold and supply a unchangeable base. Rock brackish is an alternate (though person to discard), otherwise, a furniture of leafy greens (whatever’s inexpensive astatine the clip eg watercress, kale)

Leftovers volition support for astatine slightest a period successful the freezer (scraped oregon unscraped).

Life of Dozer

Dozer’s doing beauteous good this Christmas season! Some homemade treats helium received contiguous from Mrs C’s (my chilli crisp root 😊), made by Mrs C herself! Pretty cool!