How do you dry out Lychee Nuts?

Question

I bought a package of Lychee Nuts at the store. How do I dry them out?

Answer 1

Drying of Lychees

Lychees dehydrate naturally. The skin loses its original color, becomes cinnamon-brown, and turns brittle. The flesh turns dark-brown to nearly black as it shrivels and becomes very much like a raisin. The skin of 'Kwai Mi' becomes very tough when dried; that of 'Madras' less so. The fruits will dry perfectly if clusters are merely hung in a closed, air-conditioned room.

In China, lychees are preferably dried in the sun on hanging wire trays and brought inside at night and during showers. Some are dried by means of brick stoves during humid weather.

When exports of dried fruits from China to the United States were suspended, India welcomed the opportunity to supply the market. Experimental drying involved preliminary disinfection by immersing the fruits in 0.5% copper sulphate solution for 2 minutes. Sun-drying on coir-mesh trays took 15 days and the results were good except that thin-skinned fruits tended to crack. It was found that shade-drying for 2 days before full exposure to the sun prevented cracking.

Electric-oven drying of single layers arranged in tiers, at 122º to 140º F (50º-65º C), requires only 4 days. Hot-air-blast at 160º F(70º C) dries seedless fruits in 48 hours. Fire-oven and vacuum-oven drying were found unsatisfactory. Florida researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of drying untreated lychees at 120º F (48.8º C) with free-stream air flow rates above 35 CMF/f2. Drying at higher temperatures gave the fruits a bitter flavor.

The best quality and light color of flesh instead of dark-brown is achieved by first blanching in boiling water for 5 minutes, immersing in a solution of 2% potassium metabisulphite for 48 hours, and dipping in citric acid prior to drying.

Dried fruits can be stored in tins at room temperature for about a year with no change in texture or flavor.

Answer 2

Dried Lychee

Answer 3

I am looking at how to dry them because we have about 200 lbs, and our daughter who is in school on the mainland would like come. ilegal to mail otherwise. Also, next month we won t have a tree full any more and if we dry some we will still have.

Answer 4

I thought Lychee nuts was a rare Chinese disease, contracted by wading through rice paddies.

Answer 5

actualy i don't think Lychees are nuts... they are fruits, delicious.
just eat them like you do with boiled eggs

Answer 6

Dry them out?? Why don't you just eat them??
Peel, remove the pip (might give a nice tree ;) ) and serve with chocolate mousse or ice !
http://www.jannekes.eu/fruit/litchi-filled.html
Enjoy!