Lychees have powerful anti-cancer properties thanks to their rich source of polyphenol compounds. Summer is the ideal time to sip a variety of fruits and litchi are among the delicious and nutritious fruits not to be missed. Lychee is a precious fruit with a red “appearance” like a strawberry, inside is soft, milky white flesh. In the middle of a hot summer afternoon, there is nothing better than enjoying the sweet and fragrant taste of lychee. And in today’s article we would like to introduce to you delicious dishes from litchi.
- Fried fabric
- Lychee yogurt
- Dragon fruit jelly
- Lotus seed lychee tea
- Chicken cooked with lychee
- Roasted duck salad left lychee
- Cloth stuffed with shrimp
- Lychee with yogurt filling
- Bitter gourd lychee soup
- Mist lychee tea
Fried fabric
Ingredients: (For 4 people)
- Fabric 500 gr
- Cheese 60 gr
- Wheat flour 100 gr
- Deep-fried dough 80 gr
- Chicken eggs 2
- Cooking oil 100 ml
- Tools for making: Pan, stove, knife, bowl, cutting board, scissors, …
Making:
- Preliminary processing of ingredients: Peel the lychee, use scissors to cut the stem of the lychee to remove the seeds from the pulp and set aside. Diced cheese is both eaten and stuffed into the lychee. Place the cheese filling into the pre-seeded lychee.
- Beating: Put 2 eggs in a bowl, beat until yolks and whites are combined. Roll the lychee through each layer of cornstarch, egg, then cornstarch, egg, and finally, roll over a layer of breadcrumbs. Repeat until you run out of fabric.
- Frying litchi: Put the oil in a pan on the stove to bring to a boil, then gently drop the litchi to fry in oil, until the cloth is golden, then take it out.
- Finished product: Deep-fried cheese cloth with crispy golden crust, white lychee inside and melted cheese look very attractive. Bite into one, you will feel the crunchy feeling from the outer shell combined with the cool sweet lychee and finally the greasy salty cheese inside. Add a little chili sauce, the taste is more delicious. This is a snack that can conquer the hearts of people of all ages.
Fried fabric
Lychee yogurt
Ingredients: For 3 people
- Fresh lychee 16 fruits (about 100g)
- Yogurt without sugar 180 ml
- Fresh cream 60 ml (fresh cream)
- Condensed milk 2 tablespoons
- Pistachios 1 handful
- 1 piece of dried rose petals
- Blend lychee: Peel 16 lychees and put about 14 fresh lychees in a blender and puree. Cut the rest in half for decoration.
- Make lychee yogurt: Put 180ml of yogurt, 2 tablespoons of condensed milk and 60ml of fresh cream in a bowl, then add the blended lychee and mix well until the ingredients are combined.
- Molding and baking: Sterilize yogurt cups with boiling water and dry. Add the lychee yogurt mixture to about 3/4 cup. Cover the mouth of the glass with foil. Small tip: Using foil to wrap the mouth of the cup will help prevent the yogurt from turning yellow during the baking process, causing unsightly finished products.
- Put the yogurt cups in the water tray, then pour the water in, then put them in the oven for 10-12 minutes at 160 degrees Celsius. Tip: Remember to turn on the oven at 170 degrees Celsius before 15 minutes to stabilize the oven. heat!
- After baking time, remove the yogurt and put cool water on the tray to cool the yogurt.
- Finished products: When the yogurt cools, add a little fresh lychee, a handful of split pistachios and a rose petal on top to decorate it beautifully.
The sweet and sour yogurt dish adds the characteristic aroma of litchi combined with the fat of condensed milk and cream to create many flavors. This is a dessert that you should try for your family to enjoy.
Lychee yogurt
Dragon fruit jelly
Ingredients: (For 5 people)
- Water 800 ml
- Lychee 15 fruits
- White sugar 120 gr
- Flexible jelly powder 10 gr
- Dragon fruit syrup 15 ml
- Preliminary processing of lychee: You peel and remove lychee seeds and then put in a blender to puree then filter to get lychee juice.
- Cooking jelly: Put 800ml of water, sugar and jelly powder together in a pot, turn on low heat and stir well to avoid lumps, about 1 minute, then lift it down. Divide the above pot of water into 2 equal parts, one part pour lychee juice, the other pour dragon fruit syrup and stir well. Scoop 2 tablespoons of lychee jelly into the mold and let it cool in the wind for astringent, then pour 2 tablespoons of dragon fruit jelly on top. When the previous layer of jelly has peeled, then scoop 2 tablespoons of lychee jelly and then 2 tablespoons of dragon fruit jelly, just like that, you pour the color of jelly alternately so that it is even and made into many layers for attractiveness. Note: To freeze the jelly for a long time, put the jelly on a warm stove.
- Finished product: The combination of dragon fruit and lychee creates a pleasant sweet taste, in addition, this combination also helps you to purify and cool your body in those uncomfortable hot summer days.
Dragon fruit jelly
Lotus seed lychee tea
Ingredients: (For 2 people)
- Lychee 500 gr
- 100 gr fresh lotus seeds (with the bitter lotus heart removed)
- 1 little banana oil
- 100g sugar (can be adjusted according to taste)
- 1 liter filtered water
- Separate the lychee and cook the lotus seeds: Peel the lychee and use a knife to separate the seeds from the flesh. Then rinse again. Boil 1 liter of water, then add fresh washed lotus seeds to cook for about 10 minutes, skim off the foam, turn off the heat. Add another 100g of sugar, mix well, take out the lotus seeds, keep the water in the pot.
- Stuff the lotus seeds into the cloth: After the lotus seeds are cooked, let them drain and then stuff them inside the litchi.
- Cooking tea: Boil the lotus seed broth, drop the remaining lychee and lotus seeds into the sugar water and cook for another 3 minutes, finally add a few drops of banana oil, skim off the foam to clear the water. So it’s done.
- Finished products: Let the tea cool, then scoop out into a cup, you can add some shaved ice to enjoy. The sweet and refreshing taste of lotus seed lychee will make your summer much more enjoyable!
Lotus seed lychee tea
Chicken cooked with lychee
Ingredient:
- 1kg chicken breast or chicken thighs, 500g carrots
- 300g fresh lychee
- 1 white onion
- some dried shiitake mushrooms
- 5 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 dried onion
- salt, cooking oil.
- Vermicelli, noodles or bread to serve
- Chop 2 cloves of garlic and dried onion. White onion cut areca. Boneless chicken, set aside, cut meat into bite-sized pieces. Add half of the minced onion and garlic to the chicken with oyster sauce, marinate for about 1 hour or refrigerate overnight.
- Put a little oil in the pot, fry the remaining onion and garlic, then add the chicken and stir fry until the meat is firm. Remove the meat and set aside. Put the white onion in the slow cooker. Drop the chicken bones in, fill with water. Skim regularly and simmer for about 1 hour.
- Carrots are peeled, trimmed and cut into bite-sized pieces. Shiitake mushrooms soaked in water to soften. Peel and remove the seeds. If using canned cloth, keep the main and water separately.
- When the chicken broth is clear and sweet, remove the chicken bones. Add the stir-fried chicken, shiitake mushrooms, and carrots to the pot. If using canned lychee, add lychee juice to it. Stew until chicken and carrots are tender.
- Season the broth again with salt and sugar. Add the fabric and cook for about 10 more minutes to prevent the fabric from falling apart.
In addition to using chicken wings, you can replace it with minced meat, shrimp, etc. Bitter gourd lychee soup is very healthy in summer.
Chicken cooked with lychee
Roasted duck salad left lychee
- Delicious duck meat
- Lychee
- Green mango,
- Inspiration
- red chili
- Purple Onion, Ginger,
- Plum sauce
- Sesame, peanuts, vinegar and sugar.
- Filter roast duck meat, shred roast duck meat. Litchi peel off the seeds and mix with other ingredients, mix the sauce to taste and enjoy.
- The natural sweetness of lychee penetrates deeply into each fiber of duck meat, but when eating these pieces of roasted duck meat, it is still crispy on the tip of the tongue. The sour, crunchy taste of green mango makes the dish more attractive.
Roasted duck salad left lychee
Cloth stuffed with shrimp
- 300g shrimp,
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/4 coffee ground pepper
- 12 canned lychees
- 1 little chili powder
- salad
- decorative cilantro.
- Sauce: 1 cup chicken broth, 1 teaspoon oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon diluted cornstarch, 2 egg whites.
- Shrimp peeled and finely chopped. Season with salt, tapioca starch, pepper. Sprinkle tapioca starch inside the lychee. Lettuce and coriander, washed.
- Divide shrimp into 10 equal pieces. Stuff the shrimp into the lychee, arrange the shrimp on a plate and then put it in a steamer with high heat for 6-8 minutes until the shrimp is cooked from the inside.
- Sauce: boil broth with salt and cooking oil. Add tapioca starch and egg whites, stir until smooth. Place the lettuce in a deep dish, arrange the lychees on top, sprinkle with cilantro, sprinkle with chili powder and drizzle the sauce on top.
You can also make some stuffed shrimp and meat dishes as shown in the video below.
Cloth stuffed with shrimp
Lychee with yogurt filling
Ingredients: For 2 people
- 16 pieces of lychee
- Yogurt 100 gr
- Condensed milk 40 gr
- Coconut milk 80 gr
- Coconut rice flour 10 gr
- Preliminary fabric processing: After buying the fabric, you separate it from the branches, peeling off about 1/3 of the top cover. Use a sharp knife or the back of a spoon to separate around the seeds with the rice to remove the seeds. Next, you peel off the rest of their shells and arrange the lychee rice neatly and neatly in a plate.
- Make the filling and put in the lychee: Make the filling by putting 100gr of yogurt, 40gr of condensed milk and 80gr of coconut milk into a bowl. Stir for all 3 ingredients to blend into one, forming a homogeneous mixture. Next, use a spoon to scoop out the mixture and pour it into the lychee rice, until the lychee is full, stop. You continue to do this until all the rice has been separated from the grain.
- Put the cloth in the freezer: Then, you use food wrap to cover the cloth on the plate and then put it in the freezer compartment. Freeze the fabric for about 2 hours.
- Finished product: So after 2 hours of waiting, you have finished the extremely hot ice and snow cloth.
The lychee is cool to eat, the lychee rice is a bit hard to eat, combined with the delicious fatty yogurt filling.
Lychee with yogurt filling
Bitter gourd lychee soup
- 10 fresh lychee
- 1 bitter gourd
- 2 chicken wings.
- There are also other spices such as ginger, soup powder, monosodium glutamate, pepper, rice wine, soy sauce…
- If you don’t use chicken wings, you can change the taste with dried shrimp, young ribs, sirloin, sprouted …
- Chicken wings cut into small pieces marinated with spices, pepper, wine and a spoonful of soy sauce. Bitter melon washed, halved lengthwise. Filter out the intestines and seeds and cut into 5 x 5 cm pieces. Peel the lychee, remove the pulp, remove the seeds.
- After marinating the chicken for about 20 minutes, add about 600 ml of water, put it on the stove to stew with low heat, open the lid. Occasionally skim off the effervescent foam that floats to the top.
- Use about 1 ounce of crushed ginger for the stew pot. When the chicken is tender, add bitter gourd, lychee and stew for another 2-3 minutes. Then season to taste.
Bitter gourd lychee soup
Mist lychee tea
- 1 handful of fresh lychee, seeded (about 300 g)
- White flute mist
- 1 box of fresh milk
- 1 little coconut milk
- Jaggery
- Sugar
- 150g dried lotus seeds
- Wash and soak dried lotus seeds for about 30 minutes
- Fresh lychee peeled and seeded.
- Mix 1 packet of white flute powder with 180 ml of fresh milk, 150 ml of filtered water, 3 tablespoons of granulated sugar and 2 tablespoons of coconut milk. Then wait for the flute mist powder to dissolve and bring to a boil. With this method, you will have very fragrant and delicious jelly pieces. Pour the jelly into the mold and let it cool in the fridge.
- Put the lotus seeds in a pot and bring to a boil. When the lotus seeds are soft, add jaggery. Depending on your preference for sweetness. Cook for about 3 more minutes.
- With fresh lychee, after peeling, remove the seeds, if you like it sweet, you can slug the lychee with a little sugar, if not, then put it in a pot of lotus tea and cook for about 3-5 minutes for the lychee to absorb the sweetness.
- When the lotus tea is ripe, we add a few ice cubes if you like. Lychee season has come, you should try making this kind of lychee tea to have fun!
Mist lychee tea
Above are some delicious dishes made from lychee. If you like to eat lychee but are afraid of being hot, learn other ways to enjoy it with your family. Wishing you all a delicious summer…
Posted by: Chau Ngo Minh
Keyword: 10 delicious dishes from lychee fruit and simple ways to make it at home
