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Baking blind involves lining pastry with aluminum foil and filling it with dried beans or uncooked rice. Bake at 400 F (200 C) for five minutes. Remove foil and beans and bake pastry for an additional five minutes. Allow to cool before adding filling.
Lychees go well with coconut gel (nata de coco or nata de kaong). These gelatinous cube shaped or cylindrical sweets that are made out of coconut. They come in bottles packed in sugar syrup. The nata de kaong comes in red, white or green colors which adds a festive color to desserts or to fruit salads. These can be bought from an asian or filipino foodstore. If unavailable,it is okay. Just use the fruits that you like to include.
If one is using lychees a good addition to the filling will be almonds. You may also use fresh shredded coconut strips for the topping. Lychees, fresh coconut strips and almond flavored gelatin cubes (different from nata de kaong) make a festive tropical fruit salad when combined.
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