Lychee is a sweet and fragrant fruit during the summer days. Let’s go to the kitchen and make a drink – delicious lychee tea in 3 unique ways to refresh our family during these hot weather days!
1. Lychee Rose Tea
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Preparation
5 minutes
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Cooking
55 minutes
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Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients for Lychee Rose Tea For 2 people
Tea 15 gr Fresh lychee 1 box Dried rose buds 30 gr Tea bag 1 g Rose syrup 150 ml Sugar syrup 50 ml Lemon juice 50 ml
Information about rose syrup and rose buds:
- You can easily buy rose syrup and dried rose buds at supermarkets, grocery stores, or some online shops.
- Dried rose buds are also sold at tea shops.
How to Make Lychee Rose Tea
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Boil Rose Buds
Put 600ml of water in a pot and bring it to a boil over high heat, then add 30g of dried rose buds and reduce the heat, simmer on medium heat for 15 minutes.
When the rose buds have infused the tea and the water turns a light pink, turn off the heat.
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Brew Rose Tea
Put 1 bag of rose tea bags into a glass jar, pour the hot rose bud infusion over it, steep the tea for about 3 minutes, then remove the tea bag.
Add 150ml of rose syrup, 50ml of sugar syrup, 50ml of fresh lychee juice, and 50ml of lemon juice into the tea jar. Stir well to combine the mixture. The tea should have a beautiful bright pink color and a light rose fragrance.
Finally, add the lychee fruit into the glass according to your preference for more or less. Add ice cubes and then pour the rose tea over it, garnishing with mint leaves or spearmint for added flavor and visual appeal.
Tip: Let the tea cool down before adding it to the glass with ice!
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Finished Product
Chilled lychee rose tea has a fragrant rose scent with the sweet taste of truly enticing lychees, doesn’t it? Let’s enjoy it right away.
2. Plum Lychee Tea
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Preparation
5 minutes
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Cooking
20 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Plum Lychee Tea Serves 4
Late plums 200 gr Lychee 500 gr Pineapple 1 piece White sugar 1 kg Tea 45 gr (3 tea bags)
How to Choose Delicious Ingredients
- Choosing Plums: It’s best to choose fresh plums, preferably with stems and leaves, round, plump, shiny, and with a white powdery layer on the outside, not bruised or infested. Choose dark red ripe plums for sweeter tea.
- Choosing Pineapple: Choose those with bright yellow color from the stem to the tip. Remember, evenly yellow pineapples will be sweeter. Avoid those with uneven colors, dark brown spots, or yellow turning red as they are overripe. Pineapples that are round, short, will have more flesh compared to long, tubular ones. The larger and sparser the eyes of the pineapple, the better, indicating that the pineapple is mature and naturally ripe.
How to make Lychee Plum Tea
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Prepare plums, lychees, and pineapples
Wash the plums, drain them, then slice them into thin pieces about 1cm thick.
Peel the ripe lychees and remove the seeds.
Clean the pineapple, remove the eyes, and cut it into small pieces as shown.
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Make the tea
Add the prepared plums, pineapples, and lychees into a clean bowl. Pour 1kg of sugar into the bowl and gently shake to let the plums, lychees, and pineapples absorb the sugar.
Then, cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and store it in the refrigerator for about 6 – 8 hours until the sugar dissolves and absorbs into the fruit. Next, put the mixture of lychees, plums, and sugar water into a pot on the stove, bring to a boil over medium heat, then reduce to low heat and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring the mixture gently while cooking.
Soak the tea bag in the hot lychee plum water, and the lychee plum tea is ready.
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Finished product
Lychee plum tea is delicious and easy to make with a light, sweet flavor, fragrant with lychee, and a tart-sweet taste from the plums combined with the distinctive flavor of pineapples, which is truly wonderful, isn’t it? When serving, add ice for an even better taste!
3. Lychee Jelly Tea
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Preparation
5 minutes
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Cooking
55 minutes
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Difficulty
Medium
Ingredients for Lychee Jelly Tea For 4 people
Fresh lychee 2 cans Tea 45 gr (3 tea bags) Agar jelly powder 3 gr Unsweetened fresh milk 100 ml Sugar syrup 300 ml White sugar 75 gr
How to make Lychee Jelly Tea
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Make lychee jelly
Open 2 cans of fresh lychee and separate the lychee fruit and lychee juice. Use 350ml of lychee juice to make the jelly, and the remaining juice for brewing tea.
Add 3gr of Agar jelly powder into a bowl or pot, then add 100ml of drinking water and 350ml of the separated fresh lychee juice into the bowl. Stir well and let it soak for 30 minutes. Next, pour the jelly powder mixture and lychee juice into a pot. Bring to a boil over medium heat, add 75gr of sugar to the pot, stir well, then turn off the heat, add 100ml of unsweetened fresh milk, stir well again, and pour into a mold to cool.
Place the jelly container in the refrigerator for about 1 hour for the jelly to set completely.
After the jelly has set, remove it from the mold, cut it into small rectangular pieces, and keep it in the refrigerator until ready to use.
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Brew rose tea
Put 3 bags of rose tea in a glass jar and pour in 600ml of hot water.
Brew the tea for 3 minutes to extract the flavor, then remove the tea bags.
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Brew lychee rose tea
Add 100ml of rose tea, 50ml of fresh lychee juice, and 50ml of sugar syrup into each glass, then stir well.
Next, add ice, lychee jelly, and fresh lychees to the glass according to your taste preference. You can also garnish with a few sprigs of mint on top to make the lychee drink more attractive.
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Final product
Delicious and refreshing lychee jelly rose tea with fragrant rose tea, soft and sweet fresh lychee, and crunchy lychee jelly is really enticing, isn’t it? Let’s enjoy it right away!
How to choose delicious, sweet lychee:
- Delicious and ripe lychees will have a pink-red skin, round shape, smooth spikes; the more spikes and sharper they are, the more likely the lychee is still green and will taste sour. Lychee fruits are usually smaller than hybrid lychees (about 70%), while hybrid lychees are larger and elongated, with a darker red color. Avoid lychees with black spots, as they are likely to be rotten or overly ripe. Choose fresh bunches of lychee with stems still attached and leaves that are still green.
- When you squeeze the fruit and feel it slightly soft with some elasticity, it is fresh lychee. Fresh lychee typically has a light, distinctive fragrance; if you smell fermentation, it is old lychee that has been stored too long or is bruised inside, so it should not be chosen.
- Delicious lychee will have thick, soft flesh, translucent white color, juicy, and easy to separate from the seed.
- It is best to buy lychee in season.
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Chilled lychee tea for hot summer days is really easy to make, isn’t it? Let’s make this delicious drink for your family right away. Wish you success!
