Servings: 10 serves
Red Shiso Juice 紫蘇ジュース
Learn how to make delicious, nutritious and refreshing red shiso juice with perilla leaves!
Ingredients
- 18 oz Red/Purple Shiso leaves * 1 or 500g
- 2 cups water *2 or 500ml
- ½ cup sugar *3 or 100g
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar *4 or 60ml
Instructions
- Prepare shiso leaves to boil. Wash and trim the shiso leaves.
- Bring 2 cups of water to boil in a large sauce pan or pot and add the prepared shiso leaves.
- Turn the heat down to medium heat and cook the shiso leaves for about a few minutes. The leaves colour will change from purple to a greenish colour.
- Drain the shiso leaves with a strainer/sieve and squeeze the leaves to extract as much as you can. It is hot so be careful not to burn your fingers. I used a spoon to extract all the liquid.
- Place the drained liquid back to the saucepan and bring it simmer.
- Add the sugar, and when the sugar has dissolved, turn the heat off and add the apple cider vinegar.
- Cool it down and keep it in a clean bottle in the fridge. If you sterilize the container in which you keep the syrup, it will last about 6 months in the fridge.
- To make shiso juice, place 1/4 cup of the syrup into a glass and pour about 200 ml of mineral water or fizzy soda water over the top. Add ice cubes.
Notes
*1 You need a heaped colander full of shiso leaves which is about 18oz or 500g. It seems a lot but they shrink in hot water when they are wilted.
*Nutrition fact is for whole juice. It will differ with how the juice will be diluted.
Nutrition
Calories: 40kcal, Carbohydrates: 10g, Sodium: 3mg, Potassium: 4mg, Sugar: 10g, Calcium: 1mg