A&M: It’s rare to come across a recipe that’s both sophisticated and economical. Just four ingredients and three simple stages and you have a dessert that’s easy enough to whip up for your kids and impressive enough for a dinner party. The granita offers a balanced sprinkling of bitterness and sweetness. And the frozen yogurt (which, by the way, gets very hard in the freezer; leave it out for a bit before scooping) is tangy with lashings of salt and honey. Make sure you use full-fat yogurt, and if you can’t find honey-flavored, just buy plain and sweeten it with honey (we did it both ways and each worked out fine). And get ready for a grown-up, faintly subversive dessert. As Helenthenanny wrote, “Greek yogurt and Greek feta were meant to be friends, and served along with the blood orange and mint granita, it’s an orgy of ingredient love.” We agree wholeheartedly!
FETA FROZEN YOGURT
½ cup soft feta, preferably fresh and packed in water
9 ounces honey-flavored Greek yogurt
BLOOD ORANGE AND MINT GRANITA
2 big, fat, juicy blood oranges
1 handful mint leaves
TIPS AND TECHNIQUES
Helenthenanny suggests having “a small lemon on hand in case your blood oranges are crazy sweet and you’d prefer a bit more acidity.”
If you like a sweeter dessert, add a drizzle of honey on top when serving.
ABOUT THE COOK
For more on Helenthenanny, read her recipe for Figgy Pudding Butter Cookies.