How To Get The Best From Lychee?
Lychee looks like the strawberry but comes with a tough and rough exterior. The fruit is peeled in order to get the edible inner part, which has a similar appearance to peeled grape. It comes with a wide variety of benefits thanks to the wide variety of nutrients, including Vitamins, unsaturated fats and minerals.
Selecting the best
It is an important thing to keep in mind that lychee stops ripening the moment it is harvested, and therefore buyers must make sure that they select the right fruits. It should come with a bright coloring and have no blemishes. They should make sure that they have bought fruits that are tough and leathery, and stay away from the pliable, dark and dry skinned ones. Getting fresh fruits is also important because they ferment faster when they age.
The buyers can also opt to select canned lychee, which are a dried version of the fruit. They have a taste similar to that of the raisin.
How to Peel?
While many people use their fingernails to peel off the skin, when it comes to large quantities, it is recommended that they use a serrated knife for cutting lengthwise through the skin. For the fresh lychee fruits, the users only need to peel away the skin and the inner membrane. Those fruits that are very ripe only need the skin to be torn off at one end and then pinched toward the opposite end into a bowl or the mouth.
Storing Lychee
Wrap the fruits in paper towel and place them in perforated plastic bag before storing them in the refrigerator to up to one week. It is recommended that they are used faster in order to avoid fermentation. The users can also freeze the fruits, by placing them with their peels in a zipper bag then get rid of the air before sealing it.
How does the food look like and where I could go to buy it?
I will soon add some photos. You can buy it at local fruit & vegetable store.
I’ve discovered Lychees only last year and i’ve enjoyed eating them alot. First i only knew the ones in canes but as winter came they became widely sold on the market where I live, so i picked up a few ocasionally. I’ve read some articles saying that I need to peel the skin AND the membrane first before eating it. Until now i’ve only peeled the skin and never bothered about the membrane. Is this membrane in talk similar to that of a grape, the skin that quasi keeps the more liquid flesh together, and is there any danger in eating it anyway?
I’ve also by chance discovered that if you wash the lychees unpeeled (which i felt I had to do because i discovered they lay with some moldy ones at the fruitstand) and left them to dry for a few hours, it became more easy to peel them as the skin became easier to open by just gently pushing on a few spots and then you could split it open like a pistachio. It makes the process of peeling and opening them much easier, but I havent heard anyone else on the internet suggest this. Is there anything wrong with doing this? (I’ve found one in between that was a bit open when I bought it and it had water caught inside though, but i dont think it wouldve been very tasty even if i hadn’t washed it.)
Thanks for this very interesting article
Its not dangerous at all. Yeah, its easier to peel the lychee it ifs not so dry. Thanks for the info. I’ll do a little research about this peeling.
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