Ingredients

• 4 cups - watermelon, cubed
• 2 cups - fresh lychees, peeled
• 1/2 cup - sugar
• 1/3 cup - water
• 2 cm piece - ginger
• 3 tbsp - almonds
• Vanilla ice cream to serve

How to Make Watermelon And Lychee Fruit Salad

• Mix sugar with water. Peel and cut ginger into thin strips and add to the sugar.
• Heat the mixture and stir till the sugar dissolves.
• Simmer without stirring for 3 - 4 minutes.
• Remove from heat and cool the syrup.
• Soak almonds in hot water, peel and shred thinly.
• Cut each lychee into half and discard the seeds.
• Mix them with watermelon cubes.
• Pour the cooled sugar syrup on the fruits, toss well and chill in refrigerator for at least an hour.
• To serve, place some fruit mixture with syrup in individual bowls.
• Sprinkle with almonds and top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.