Bloody Lychee Eyeballs
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Bloody Lychee Eyeballs
Description
This recipe assembles lychees stuffed with various fruits such as fresh blueberries or dried cranberries to mimic eyeballs. The fruit is rolled in syrup or jam to make it sticky, helping it stay inside the hollow cavity of peeled lychees. Some lychees may have more than one hole and should be selected carefully to prevent filling from falling out.
The final effect can be heightened by drawing red streaks around the lychee cavity using food coloring or raspberry jam, simulating blood vessels or tears. These can be eaten alone as a dessert or used as festive additions to beverages, including mocktails or champagne cocktails for Halloween.
Extra stuffed lychees can be stored in the refrigerator for a few days in an airtight container, maintaining their appearance and freshness.
Ingredients
- 1 Can lychees This was 14 lychees for my 565g/230g drained can. You can substitute with fresh lychees but they're harder to find. Alternatively, use canned longans which look pretty similar, just smaller.
- 16 blueberries Note: the seeds inside a fresh cranberry are edible but not too tasty You can also use dried fruits such as raisins, dried cranberries etc or a mix for more flavor, as I did in the photos above. If you use dried fruit, you'd need more than 1 to fill the lychee cavity so you'd need more than 16 for 1 can of lychees! (Dried fruit are also a little more liable to float out if adding to drinks!, or fresh cranberries
- 1-2 Tablespoons jam Substitute: raspberry or strawberry jam, or honey or syrup
- 1 teaspoon red food coloring Optional, only if you want to draw veins and blood around the "eyes". You can substitute with a red jam like raspberry or strawberry
Instructions
- Roll the fresh or dried fruit in the syrup, jam or honey- you want to get the fruit sticky!
- Brush some of that honey, jam or syrup inside the cavity of the lychee.
- Stuff the lychee cavity with the fruit of your choice, making sure to press (gently) onto the jam. Note: choose unbroken lychees- some have holes on the other side too, which the fruit can fall out of! (Not good.)
- Optional Step: For extra scary Halloween eyes, use red food coloring or raspberry jam to draw streaks around the hole to mimic bleeding eyes. Note: You can do this with a chopstick, the tines of a fork or a small brush.
Notes
- Select unbroken lychees with intact cavities to prevent filling from leaking.
- Use fresh or dried fruit rolled in jam or honey to help them stick inside the lychee.
- For added effect, draw red streaks around the cavity using food coloring or raspberry jam.
- Serve as a standalone dessert or as spooky additions to themed drinks.
- Store extras in an airtight container in the fridge for 2-3 days.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 1Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 76 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 76kcal | 4% |
| Carbohydrates | 20g | 7% |
| Protein | 0.2g | 0% |
| Fat | 0.1g | 0% |
| Saturated Fat | 0.01g | 0% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.03g | 0% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 0.01g | 0% |
| Sodium | 1mg | 0% |
| Potassium | 29mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 19g | 38% |
| Vitamin A | 11IU | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 3mg | 3% |
| Calcium | 3mg | 0% |
| Iron | 0.1mg | 1% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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