Yogurt is a dessert that is both delicious and nutritious. If you’re tired of regular yogurt, let’s transform it with these 2 simple recipes for butterfly pea flower yogurt and upside-down lychee yogurt to make this summer more exciting. Let’s get cooking right away!
1. Butterfly Pea Flower Lychee Yogurt
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Preparation
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Butterfly Pea Flower Yogurt Serves 4 people
Cold water 1 liter Lychee 800 gr Sago 100 gr Sugar 115 gr Yogurt 400 gr Fresh milk 100 ml Butterfly pea flowers 10 gr
How to make Yogurt with Lychee and Butterfly Pea Flower
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Boil the tapioca pearls
Soak 100g of tapioca pearls in 300ml of water for 15 minutes, then rinse clean and drain.
Next, add 15g of sugar, 5g of butterfly pea flower, and all the soaked tapioca pearls into a pot with 300ml of water and cook until done.
When the pearls are cooked and have the purple color from the butterfly pea flower, remove the tapioca pearls and soak them in a bowl of cold water. Remove the butterfly pea flowers and keep the extracted water.
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Dye the lychee fruit
Add 5g of butterfly pea flower, 100g of sugar, 200ml of water, and stir well over medium heat. When the water turns purple, add 800g of peeled lychee, remove the seeds, and simmer for 3 – 5 minutes to achieve a nice purple color on the lychee.
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Mixing the yogurt mixture
Put 400g of yogurt, 100ml of fresh milk, and butterfly pea water into a large bowl and stir the mixture well.
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Decorating and completing the dish
Use the back of a spoon to scoop an adequate amount of glutinous rice flour and fill the lychee fruit’s cavity.
Do not add too much glutinous rice flour into the lychee as it will cause the flour to overflow and look unappealing.
Place 4 – 5 lychee fruits into the mold and slowly pour the yogurt mixture into the mold.
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Final Product
Sweet lychee combined with creamy yogurt and the fragrant aroma of butterfly pea flower makes you crave for more after the first bite.
2. Upside Down Lychee Yogurt
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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
15 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Upside Down Lychee Yogurt Serves 4 cups
Lychee 200 gr Condensed Milk 190 ml (1/2 can) Unsweetened Fresh Milk 500 ml Unsweetened Yogurt 1 cup
How to make Upside Down Lychee Yogurt
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Heat fresh milk, prepare lychee
Pour fresh milk into a pot and heat it on the stove over medium-low heat.
When heating the milk, you should only warm it to 35 – 45 degrees Celsius to avoid boiling as it will kill the yeast.
After buying the lychee, peel off the skin, remove the seeds, and then cut the lychee into small pieces.
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Mix fresh milk with condensed milk
Then, pour the fresh milk into a bowl and add 1/2 can of condensed milk, stirring slowly until the condensed milk is completely dissolved.
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Making lychee yogurt mixture
Finally, slowly add 1 box of unsweetened yogurt into the milk mixture through a strainer.
After the yogurt mixture has been stirred smoothly, add the chopped lychee and mix well.
Pour the mixture into individual glass jars and seal the jars with lids or cover them tightly with plastic wrap and proceed to incubate.
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Pouring into molds, incubating yogurt
Method 1: Incubate upside down yogurt using a rice cooker
Pour cold water into the rice cooker so that it reaches 2/3 of the yogurt jars and place a plate inside to prevent the yogurt jars from touching the bottom of the cooker.
Arrange the yogurt inside, then cover the pot and turn on the keep warm mode for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, unplug it and incubate for 6 – 8 hours.
Method 2: Incubate upside down yogurt using a pot
Prepare a large pot, place the yogurt inside, then pour hot water (from 45 – 50 degrees Celsius) around the yogurt.
Cover the pot, then cover with a towel and also incubate for 6 – 8 hours.
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Final product
The yogurt has a fragrant, creamy taste from the fermented milk, giving it a slightly sweet and sour flavor. Especially, when eating a piece of lychee, it is crunchy, juicy, and extremely fragrant.
Tips for making successful lychee yogurt
- Choose good lychees so that the lychee yogurt has the best flavor.
- Depending on your preference for sweetness, you can adjust the amount of sugar added to the lychee yogurt to suit your taste.
- All ingredients should be completely cooled before being prepared at room temperature.
How to choose delicious, sweet lychees
- Delicious and ripe lychees will have a reddish-pink skin, round and uniform fruit, smooth spines; the more and sharper the spines, the greener the lychee, which will taste sour.
- Lychee fruits are usually smaller than hybrid lychees, while hybrid lychees are larger and elongated, with a darker red color.
- Fresh lychee fruits will be slightly soft when pressed and have a characteristic light fragrance.
- Good lychees will have thick, soft flesh, translucent white color, juicy and easy to separate from the seed.
- Avoid lychee fruits with black spots, as they are likely to be rotten or overripe. Choose fresh bunches of lychees, with the stem still attached to the fruit and the leaves still green.
- If you smell fermentation, it indicates that the lychee is old or bruised inside, so it should not be chosen.
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With just a few simple steps and easily found ingredients, you can have 2 dishes of yogurt with lychee and butterfly pea flowers and inverted lychee ready to serve the whole family. Wishing you success!
*Source reference: Images and recipes from the YouTube channel Feedy VN and Hien Oi Into the Kitchen
