Steph invited us over to percentage some of her favourite customs together with foods for Lunar New Year. To a heaving tabular array of delicious things, I contributed this fruit salad. I was inspired past times this recipe at taste, but amongst cows' milk together with gelatine involved, I clearly needed to rework it for a veg*n crowd. Evaporated milk together with almond essence didn't appeal to me one-half every bit much every bit almond milk anyway.
Agar agar was the obvious gelatine substitute, but I don't convey a groovy history amongst it. I figured I'd make it a become a few days inward advance, using Sarah's peanut cookies if it didn't function out. Lucky me, my agar almond jelly educate perfectly, together with was fifty-fifty theatre plenty to spell into cubes. Lucky twice over, our vege box contained a rockmelon that Michael together with I would convey struggled to consume whatever other week.
With the jelly set, it's merely a affair of chopping everything upwards to tally the size of the lychees, together with gently tossing these bite-sized bits together amongst some canned lychee syrup for dressing. As the fruit salad settled, the watermelon released a lot of liquid together with it was all real thoroughly dressed, indeed. It's a dessert for the elevation of summertime - real juicy together with sweet, amongst merely a piffling textural contrast from the jelly. Personally, I'd bask it amongst a fleck to a greater extent than seize amongst teeth together with would sneak inward some lime juice, Cointreau or Frangelico inward future.
Almond jelly amongst lychees & melon
(inspired past times this gustation recipe together with this agar jelly recipe)
one tablespoon agar agar powder
500mL almond milk
1/4 loving cup castor sugar
one x 565g tin lychees inward syrup
one rockmelon
1/4 large watermelon
50mL Frangelico (optional)
In a large saucepan, stir together the agar agar, almond milk together with sugar. Bring them to the boil, hence permit them to simmer for three minutes, stirring constantly. Pour the jelly into foursquare container together with refrigerate it until set, ideally overnight.
Drain the lychees into a large serving bowl together with reserve their syrup. Peel hence die the rockmelon together with watermelon, to tally the size of the lychees, together with add together them to the bowl. Gently spell the jelly into cubes of matching size together with add together them too. Pour over one-half the lychee syrup together with the Frangelico, if using. Gently, gently toss the salad together with serve cold.
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