All right, I’ll admit that this week’s Super Sunday watermelon recipe doesn’t fit the traditional mold when it comes to football party food, but if it tastes good, who cares.
In addition to tasting good, these granita-filled lime cups (a half lime, hollowed out and filled with an Italian ice-like mixture) can easily be decorated to resemble little footballs, sort of like my crude photo-editing attempt below. This new look will definitely help them fit in with the hot wings, pizza, and corn chips also being served at the party.
GRANITA-FILLED LIME CUPS
INGREDIENTS
6 limes (12 halves) (reserve 2 tablespoons of juice)
1 cup sugar
2 cups water
4 cups watermelon cubes
1/2 cup currants or raisins
Crushed ice (optional)
DIRECTIONS
To make lime cups: Cut limes in half lengthwise; cut around pulp of each half with sharp knife, leaving peel intact. Scoop out pulp, using spoon to loosen pulp from peel, and reserve 2 tablespoons lime juice for granita. Set lime cups aside.
Stir together sugar and water in small saucepan; heat to boiling. Cool slightly. Place watermelon in container of food processor; pulse to puree watermelon. Place colander over bowl; pour pureed watermelon into colander to strain out seeds, forcing watermelon through with back of spoon, if needed. Stir reserved lime juice and cooled sugar mixture into pureed watermelon. Pour into 13x9x2-inch pan; freeze until firm, about 4 hours.
To serve, scrape out frozen watermelon mixture with spoon to make granita. Stir in currants for seeds. Add football laces design using whatever creative methods at your disposal (optional). Mound granita in lime cups; serve on bed of crushed ice.
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Chef Harry Schwartz
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Those Lime Cups look yummy. Don’t remember seeing watermelon in my local produce dept. so I won’t be able to make them now. But I’ll save the recipe and give it a try this summer.