Virgin Lychee Mojito

• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 7 mint leaves
• 3 tablespoons sugar syrup
• 1 cup lychee puree + some for garnishing
• crushed ice
• 3 mint leaves for garnishing

1. Prepare sugar syrup by heating 1 1/2 tbsp of sugar in 1/4 cup water on low to medium flame. Let the sugar dissolve completely. Allow to simmer for a little less than half a minute. Turn off the flame and bring the sugar syrup to room temperature.
2. Peel the Lychees and deseed them. In a blender make a puree of the lychees.
3. Take two serving glass, add 2-3 fresh mint leaves, a tbsp of sugar syrup and a little more than a tbsp of lemon juice. Use a spoon to gently crush or bruise the mint leaves.
4. Pour the lychee puree in it. Add 1 to 2 whole unseeded lychees in it and slowly pour chilled water into the glass till it almost reaches the brim and stir to mix.
5. Garnish with a slice of lemon, a small sprig of mint leaves and add 2 to 3 ice cubes in each glass and serve.
6. In place of chilled water you can also add chilled soda water for all that extra fizz.

lemon juice, mint, sugar syrup, lychee puree , crushed ice, mint

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Virgin-Lychee-Mojito-1635090 (may not work)