Best dried longan Recipes for Everyday Cooking

Make the most of dried longan with our handpicked recipes — simple, satisfying, and full of flavour.

Recipes with dried longan

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White Peppercorn Pork Stomach Chicken Soup

Heartwarming soup with different sort of earthy ingredients. A heartwarming, peppery broth that brings together whole chicken and pork stomach with ginger, then rounds out the flavour with earthy Chinese herbs (tangshen, sha shen, yuzhu) and gentle sweetness from red dates, goji berries, and dried longan.

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Hairy melon vegetable soup

Hairy melon vegetable soup is a light, cleansing and nourishing bowl built around tender hairy melon, sweet dates and longan, and a fragrant mix of nuts, barley, lotus seeds, dried yam, lily bulbs, and solomonseal. Gently simmered until everything melds into a naturally sweet, comforting broth, then finished with salt to taste. This summer soup is cleansing and nourishing.

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Mixed nuts dessert

This dessert combines a variety of nuts and seeds such as peanuts, apricot kernels, brown rice, sesame seeds, black soybeans, mung beans, and red beans, soaked and cooked with dried longan to create a rich and nutritious warm drink. The roasting of the sesame seeds adds a distinctive aroma, while the longan provides a touch of natural sweetness. Served warm, this dish is perfect for a comforting and healthy dessert.