Gingered Lychees With Sesame Cookies Food

LYCHEE & GINGER SORBET

Steps:

• Drain the syrup from two cans of lychees into a small pan. Add the sugar and dissolve over a gentle heat. Bring to the boil for 1 min. Blitz the drained lychees, fresh ginger slices and lychee syrup in a blender until very finely chopped. Pour through a sieve. Tip into a 1-litre container and freeze for at least 6 hrs until solid.
• Break up the frozen mix, then put in a food processor. Tip in the egg white and whizz until thick, pale and smooth. Return to the container and freeze again, ideally overnight. Serve in scoops with slices of stem ginger and syrup poured over, with Chinese fortune cookies or thin butter or almond biscuits.

LYCHEE GINGER ICE

Steps:

• Puree lychees with 1/4 cup syrup in a food processor or blender until smooth. Transfer to a sieve set over a bowl; stir and press on solids to drain as much liquid as possible. (You should have about 1 cup.) Discard solids and refrigerate juice until cold, at least 1 hour; juice can be made up to 3 days ahead.
• Bring remaining syrup and ginger to a boil in a small saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes. Let cool to room temperature, strain, and discard ginger. Refrigerate syrup at least 1 hour; syrup can be made up to 3 days ahead.
• Pulse ice, 2 cups at a time, in food processor. Transfer to a freezer bag and freeze at least 30 minutes and up to 1 day.
• Stir together lychee juice and ginger syrup. Break ice in bag into small pieces with the bottom of a heavy skillet. Pulse ice, 2 cups at a time, in processor to the texture of shaved ice. Divide ice and lychee mixture evenly among bowls and top with liqueur. Serve with cookies.

SESAME COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream the butter with the sugar.
• Add the egg, beat then add the flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla and sesame seeds.
• Beat well.
• Drop teaspoons of dough on a greased baking sheet making sure to space out each cookie.
• Bake in a preheated oven of 340 F for 8 to 10 minutes or until the cookies are hard.
• Let cool few seconds, then take them off the baking sheet carefully.
• Chilicat had 35 cookies, using a 1-teaspoon scoop.

LYCHEE, LIME & GINGER SALAD

Steps:

• Peel the lychees and place them in a medium-sized bowl. Drizzle the lime juice over them, then add the diced ginger and toss until all the ingredients are combined. Serve immediately, garnished with a thick curl of lime zest.

LYCHEE GINGER MARTINI

Steps:

• Rim glass with coarse sugar if desired.
• Place lychee puree, vodka, and triple sec in a shaker with ice.
• Shake until chilled and strain into a martini glass.
• Fill the martini glass with ginger beer.
• Garnish with an exotic fruit such as a lychee or a slice of starfruit.