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

Method:

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