Sagra della Granita agust 15 2014

A Spongano, in the middle of the month of August-15 - marks the Feast of the Granita.

Always granita is one of the best remedies for the summer heat.

The town, with events, festivals, festivities and gastronomic events becomes every year more attractive for many tourists and curious. The Rite of Granita is, of all, the one that collects more consensus because it manages to blend the folk traditions with the latest information.

A Spongano the granita becomes a true work of art that is created through the efforts of experts working to get a perfect and the party and the product itself.
The festival is held in the main square of the country where real experts granita give birth to works of art for the palate to meet the needs and tastes of anyone who wishes.

In addition to classic to fresh fruit, so you can find even the most particular as bigusto slush, cherry slush (taste particularly intense), pistachio, tangerine, with wild strawberries, mulberries blacks, red orange, almond and coffee.
The trump card is definitely represented and fresh fruit in season, strictly Puglia.

Among the most famous of all, we note the lemon granita, whose preparation involves boiling the lemons and squeeze them when they are still warm. This is the trick to get more juice from the lemons which is then collected in containers which policed together water and sugar, stir while the liquid is still hot, allowing the sugar to dissolve better.

Once you have finished this preparation, the content is transferred to the freezer and for the first time, every time, you continue to mix, so that sugar is at the bottom. After about 2 hours the preparation is completed and before being consumed, are made to stand at room temperature. Finally, it is cut into pieces, until the mixture is creamy and homogeneous distributed in many stands positioned to the streets of downtown.