Apple Mint Granita - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 cups clear unsweetened apple juice
10 mint leaves
4 cups organic unsweetened applesauce
7 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice, preferably fresh squeezed
1/8 teaspoon salt

Preparation

Mix apple juice and mint leaves and allow to combine overnight in refrigerator. Strain mint leaves out of apple juice.
Place a shallow metal pan in freezer. In a nonreactive saucepan, combine applesauce, mint flavored apple juice, sugar, lemon juice and salt. Bring to a boil, then simmer uncovered about 20 minutes.
Cool to room temperature.
Pour apple mixture into chilled pan; return to freezer. Stir every 20 minutes until it thickens into coarse crystals, about 1 hour.
Stir granita and mound into small cups. Serve immediately.