Shaved Ice with Fresh Fruit Purée

Name: Shaved Ice with Fresh Fruit Purée (かき氷)
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: juice and grated zest of ½ unwaxed organic lime; ½ cup (125 ml) filtered water; 100 g (3½ oz) fresh or tinned lychees, frozen; 40 ice cubes, about 900 g (2 lb); 200 g (7 oz) frozen strawberries; diced fresh strawberries, to serve; diced fresh mango, to serve; 150 g (5½ oz) frozen mango

かき氷

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

Japanese Food Made Easy

By Aya Nishimura

Published 2020

About

The Japanese feel as if summer has arrived when shaved ice is added to the menu of Japanese sweet shops. It’s time-consuming to make, but if you crush the ice in a food processor and freeze it again, you can process the ice again just before you eat it. This will also give much better results – it’s like eating fluffy, powdery snow.

Ingredients

Fresh

40 ice cubes, about 900 g (2 lb)
200 g

Asia
Japan
Dessert
Vegan
Gluten-free
Summer

Method

If you are blitzing the ice twice, place the ice cubes in a food processor and blitz until you get snowy ice. Quickly tip it into a deep container (try not to compress the ice flakes) and keep this in the freezer for at least 2 hours.

Tip the frozen strawberries and lychees into a blender. Blend to a smooth purée, then transfer to a bowl and rinse the blender.

Tip the frozen man