Prosciutto Melon Granita | Frozen Italian Dessert | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with puto melon granita.

That's right. I wanted to create a frozen dessert that tasted like puto wrap melon, which we can do by simply sprinkling some puto over the top. I mean, we'll do that, too, but we're also going to infuse puto flavor into the melon granita. And I thought the results were absolutely mind-blowing. And to get started, we'll come swinging in with some sliced puto and we'll transfer it into a dry pan set over medium heat.

And while that comes up to temperature and

starts to sizzle, we'll kind of separate it with our tongs. And we'll pull that apart into a nice even layer. And what we'll do is cook this until the fat starts to render out. And these pieces start to very lightly brown. But we do not want to go too far.

So, what we'll do on our pudo starts to look something like this is pull out 2/3 of it and transfer that onto a plate, and that's the part we'll reserve and use when we make the melon granita. And then we'll

leave a third of it in the pan, which we'll cook for another minute or so, just to render out some additional fat and brown it up a little more. Since, as you'll see, we'll use this portion to make the candy pudo bits for the top. So once it gets to this point, we'll turn off the heat and we'll go ahead and transfer that onto a paper towel line plate.

Oh, and you see that fat in the pan, do not under any circumstances wipe that out. All right, just leave that on