Summer Warming Side Dishes

Perilla 50g	Zi Jiang 200g
Rice vinegar 150g	Pure brown sugar 20g
Clear water 100g	Lemon 50g

How to make stomach-warming side dishes in summer

Step 1

Wash the perilla and set aside. Wash and peel the ginger and dry it in the sun. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot and pour in white vinegar. Bring the brown sugar to a boil.

Step 2

Add perilla to the boiling white vinegar and continue to cook until the vinegar changes color and turn off the heat.

Step 3

Remove the perilla leaves.

Step 4

Squeeze in a small amount of lemon juice.

Step 5

Cut the dried ginger into thin slices.

Step 6

First put the chopped ginger into the bottle, then pour in the cooled perilla vinegar, seal the bottle, and you can eat it the next day. Tips for cooking stomach-warming side dishes in summer

1. Perilla must be soaked in salt water for a while before cooking, because the perilla is likely to contain insect eggs or bugs. Soaking in salt water can completely remove these dirt. 2. When cooking perilla water, do not add all the rice vinegar, but be sure to add a little water, so that the cooked perilla water will be more sour and sweet. Cooking with only vinegar will cause the perilla water to have a slightly bitter taste, usually 500ml Rice vinegar corresponds to 200ml of water. 3. It is recommended that you eat 2-3 pieces of prepared perilla pickled ginger every morning and lunch. Do not eat it before going to bed, because ginger is a hot food. Eating it before going to bed will not only cause great irritation to the stomach, but also cause Easy to suffer from insomnia!