Cucumber Lychee Sake

Name: Cucumber Lychee Sake
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 12 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 slices English cucumbers, plus extra slices for garnish; 4 long thin slices fresh ginger; 59 milliliters lychee juice, plus lychees for garnish; 118 milliliters sake; 237 milliliters sugar; 237 milliliters water

Cucumber Lychee Sake might be a good recipe to expand your beverage repertoire. Watching your figure? This gluten free, dairy free, lacto ovo vegetarian, and fodmap friendly recipe has 506 calories, 1g of protein, and 1g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 2. This recipe from Foodnetwork requires water, long ginger, lychee juice, and sake. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 12 minutes.

Instructions

Make ginger simple syrup by combining ginger, and 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar in a small saucepan and simmer until sugar has dissolved. Set aside to cool. Peel cucumbers and cut half of 1 into thin slices. Puree the remaining 1 1/2 cucumbers in a blender. In a shaker, combine sake, pureed cucumber, ginger simple syrup and lychee juice. Shake to combine and serve in ice filled glasses garnished with lychee fruit.

Ingredients you will need

Simple Syrup