Top Ten Coffee & Tea Granitas

Lately, I've been on a granita kick.

In case you aren't familiar with granitas, they are icy foods that are usually (but not always) sweet. They use all kinds of ingredients for flavor and texture, including pureed fruit, fruit juice, coffee and milk / cream. In Italy (where granitas originated), coffee granitas are very popular as an afternoon snack or dessert during warm weather.

After playing around with a few coffee granita recipes, I got to thinking that if coffee granitas and fruity granitas are so delicious, and tea is also delicious with fruit, then it might also be delicious to combine tea with fruit and make it into a granita.

First, I tried making apple cider and black tea into an apple tea granita. Simple, tasty... so far, so good. Then, I tried pureeing strawberries and mixing them with white tea for a strawberry white tea granita (pictured above). The result was fresh and wonderfully summery. It was so summery, in fact, that it got me thinking about taking tea granitas in the opposite direction.

I decided to make a spicy, creamy granita, more akin to traditional coffee granitas than to the tea granitas I had made so far. In the interest og keeping it simple, I used some of Rishi's Masala Chai Tea Concentrate that I had left over from taste testing for the review. The result was this easy masala chai granita recipe, which I liked so much that I decided to make a chcolate chai coffee granita, too.

As you can probably tell by now, I had a lot of fun creating these recipes! You can check out the whole collection of coffee and tea granitas (including recipes from other guides on the site) in this list of top ten coffee and tea granitas. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

Photo (c) Marko Goodwin
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