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Food for thought | Luscious lychee

Food for thought | Luscious lychee

Mineral-rich: The fruit is high in potassium and copper. Potassium offers protection against stroke and coronary heart diseases. Copper is required in the production of red blood cells.Premium

Mineral-rich: The fruit is high in potassium and copper. Potassium offers protection against stroke and coronary heart diseases. Copper is required in the production of red blood cells.

If you see a lychee tree and think for a split second that it looks strikingly similar to something out of one of those Chinese paintings, you won’t be quite off the mark. The lychee was a celebrated delicacy in the court of Imperial China and has been the subject of many Chinese paintings from the first century. In fact, such was the demand for fresh lychees that a special courier service was organized to bring the fruit from the south-eastern province of Guangdong to the emperor’s court in the northern city of Bianjing.

Mineral-rich: The fruit is high in potassium and copper. Potassium offers protection against stroke and coronary heart diseases. Copper is required in the production of red blood cells.

The lychee is favoured most in dessert form and continues to be extremely popular in China, South-East and South Asia. Lychees are popular in fruit salads and dressings and lychee drinks are hugely refreshing in tropical summers.

They are, of course, best eaten fresh.

shreya.r@livemint.com

Eat it this way

Lychee Jalousie with Lychee Granite

Serves 2

To prepare the puff pastry for Jalousie

Ingredients

• 5-6 lychees

•1 tbsp icing sugar

•270g flour

•170ml water

•1 tsp salt

•1 tsp melted butter

•75g milk powder

•100g butter for layering

Method

Chill out: This is the season to enjoy Lychee Jalousie with Lychee Granite.

To prepare Lychee Granite

•500g lychee juice

•50g sugar

•200ml water

Method

Boil the ingredients and set in the freezer for 4 hours. Remove and crush with a fork. Serve frozen with Jalousie.

—Narendra Lendave, pastry chef, The Westin Hyderabad Mindspace, Hyderabad.

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Published: 04 Jul 2011, 09:45 PM IST
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