This easy recipe for Lychee Soda is a sweet and refreshing drink with a few ingredients that will be sure to quench your thirst!
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What are lychees?
Lychees, also known as litchi are a small, round tropical fruit with a white, soft, juicy flesh and a red-green rough textured rind/skin.
The lychee fruit is characterized by a dark brown, inedible seed located in the center.
As the fruit ripens, the skin of the lychee transitions from green to a deep red hue.
What do lychees taste like?
Lychee has a sweet and subtle floral flavor that is similar to rose, pear and grape.
The lychee texture of the flesh is slippery, juicy and succulent.
They pair well with rose as in this Lychee Rose Cream Cake and raspberries, as in Rose Lychee Raspberry Cupcakes.
When are lychees in season?
Lychees are in season typically from May to July.
Why you'll love this recipe
This recipe for Lychee Soda is incredibly simple!
Refreshing: when water just doesn't seem quench your thirst, this sparkling, refreshing fizzy lychee drink will tickle your tastebuds and have you wanting more.
Not too sweet: since this lychee drink recipe is lightly sweetened from the lychee nectar, it's an easy way to increase your water and fluid intake, especially in the summer!
Simple to make: with a few minimal ingredients, this lychee soda recipe is super simple to put together.
Easily scalable: whether you're making a lychee soda drink for yourself or a crowd, you can increase the amount to feed a crowd.
Ingredients you'll need
- lychee nectar: is pureed lychee fruit with sugar already added to it to make it into a juice; you can also use blended fresh lychees or canned lychees and add a little lychee syrup to sweeten it
- ice cubes
- sparkling water: carbonated water, soda water
- mint: optional
How to make a lychee soda
In a tall glass, add in ice cubes, lychee nectar, and top with sparkling water.
Add a sprig of mint, stick in a straw and enjoy immediately.
Optional additions & variations
Add lychee syrup or lychee jellies to enhance the lychee flavor.
Try adding boba pearls for a sparkling take on bubble tea.
Add a little cold foam cream to make it into a lychee cream soda.
If you like you can also blend in a little mint with fresh lychees to add even more flavor.
Play around with different fruit pairings such as passionfruit, mango, lime or coconut.
Add in cold brew green tea with strawberries, or black tea in place of the sparkling water to make an iced lychee tea.
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Lychee Soda
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Ingredients
- ice cubes
- 1 C lychee nectar
- ½ C sparkling water
- sprig of mint optional
Instructions
- In a tall glass, add in ice cubes, lychee nectar, and top with sparkling water.
- Add a sprig of mint, stick in a straw and enjoy immediately.
Nutrition
The nutritional information provided should be considered as approximate and is not guaranteed. Please use your best judgment to ensure food is safely prepared and/or a good fit for your diet.
Heidi | The Frugal Girls
This fruity carbonated drink is such a fabulous, no guilt way to get refreshed on a hot summer day. The flavor of the lychee sounds so lovely!!
Michelle
Thank you Heidi! It really is so simple and refreshing!
Ben | Havocinthekitchen
I love lychees for their unique flavour, and this soda looks absolutely refreshing and tasty!
Michelle
Thanks Ben -- the lychees impart such a delicious floral, fruity flavor! 🙂
Tasia
I'm always looking for fun new drinks for my girls for a Sunday dinner treat and this is a perfect contender! My girls will love the floral and fruitiness of this lychee soda!
Michelle
Thanks Tasia! If my boys loved the drink, your girls will definitely enjoy it!
Healthy World Cuisine
Delightfully refreshing, lightly sweet and floral. Our kind of summer in a glass.
Michelle
Indeed, it's one of our favorite cooldown drinks for summer! 🙂