On a hot day, nothing beats a cup of frozen grapes. They’re a healthy snack that tastes as sweet and refreshing as ice cream. Serve them to students to boost their intake of Vitamin C and antioxidants like resveratrol, which protects against cancer and heart disease.
This recipe is easy to scale up for classroom snacks and meal programs!
Snackable Frozen Grapes
Recipe by Lex Flamm for The FruitGuys
Ingredients
- 1 2-pound bag of grapes (red, green, or black)
⭐ Available seasonally from The FruitGuys Farm-to-School Program: grapes
Preparation
- Prepare Your Space: Lay a towel on the counter beside the sink.
- Rinse Grapes: Add your grapes to a bowl or colander, then rinse them under cold water.
- Dry Grapes: Spread the clean grapes out on the towel, then use a second towel to dry the bowl/colander and pat the grapes dry.
- Destem Grapes: Remove all of the grapes from their stems, adding the fruits back to the bowl/colander as you go.
- Portion Out Grapes: Using a measuring cup, scoop up 1 cup of grapes from the bowl/colander. Add the cup of grapes to a small, freezer-safe container. Repeat until you run out of grapes or containers, whichever comes first.
- Freeze Grapes: Place your containers of grapes in the freezer. Freeze them for at least 2 hours. For firmer grapes, leave them in the freezer for 6–8 hours or overnight.
Serves 4–6. Prep time, 15 minutes; freeze time, 2–12 hours.
Cook’s Note
We recommend using seedless grapes for this recipe. It’s much harder to spit out the seeds in a frozen grape! Red seedless grape varieties like Flame and Ruby are our favorites, but green and black grapes also freeze beautifully.