Red Shiso Juice 紫蘇ジュース
Learn how to make delicious, nutritious and refreshing red shiso juice with perilla leaves!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 10 servings
- Difficulty
- EASY
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 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
- 1
Prepare shiso leaves to boil. Wash and trim the shiso leaves.
- 2
Bring 2 cups of water to boil in a large sauce pan or pot and add the prepared shiso leaves.
- 3
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.
- 4
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.
- 5
Place the drained liquid back to the saucepan and bring it simmer.
- 6
Add the sugar, and when the sugar has dissolved, turn the heat off and add the apple cider vinegar.
- 7
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.
- 8
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.