Lychee Soda

This easy recipe for Lychee Soda is a sweet and refreshing drink with a few ingredients that will be sure to quench your thirst!

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.

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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