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Health Benefits of Lychees, and Lychee Salsa

Lychee Salsa

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Course Sauce
Servings 2.5 cups

Ingredients

  • 2 cans lychees* rinsed, pitted and peeled (or 2 cups fresh lychees, pitted and peeled)
  • 2 Roma tomatoes chopped
  • 1 large bulb crushed garlic
  • 1 TBSP minced fresh cilantro
  • 3 tsp olive oil
  • 1 TBSP fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • Pinch of crushed red pepper
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  • With a large knife, dice lychees and tomatoes into ¼ inch pieces.
  • Combine with garlic, cilantro, lime juice, olive oil, crushed red pepper, salt, and pepper.
  • Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours, or overnight.

Notes

*Note: canned lychees usually contain a lot of sugar (try to avoid high fructose corn syrup now also called "corn sugar"), so you may want to rinse them thoroughly first.