Valentina Harris

Gelato di Cocomero

Sicilian Watermelon Ice

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Italian Regional Cookbook
The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

  • About

Nowhere in the world will you taste ice creams and water ices quite like those produced in Sicily, and the following recipe, with its intense perfume and flavour, is a superb example. Do make sure you use a really sweet, ripe watermelon; in Sicily their perfume wafts on the breeze throughout the summer.

Ingredients

  • 500 g/1 ¼ lb watermelon, seeded and skinned
  • 275 g/10

Method

  1. Press the watermelon through a sieve or strainer into a bowl.

  2. Add half the sugar and stir until dissolved, then mix in the jasmine flower or orange blossom water.

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