Perilla is one of the more common plants in our lives, it has a special fragrance, it can be edible, but also used as medicine, it is low in sugar, high in fiber, carotene, and a variety of minerals and high in nutrition. In normal times, we use perilla leaves to cook fish, and when we add them, they become particularly delicious.
In short, perilla is a plant that is very beneficial to our body, today we use perilla leaves to boil eggs, the eggs made are nutritious and healthy, what is the specific effect?
Boiled eggs with perilla leaves
Prepare ingredients: perilla, eggs, salt, white vinegar, edible alkali, brown sugar (optional).
Add an appropriate amount of edible salt or edible alkali to the perilla bought in the vegetable market and clean it carefully, and then soak it in water for more than ten minutes, the edible salt can be disinfected and sterilized, and the edible alkali can also adsorb some of the remaining substances from the perilla leaves.
In addition, the perilla stalk can not be thrown away, the perilla dissipates the cold and dissolves the surface, the line is wide, and it can also promote blood circulation by soaking the feet, and improve the symptoms of chills, cold limbs, and soreness in the waist and knees.
During the soaking process, you can add edible salt and white vinegar to soak the eggs, which can prevent the egg shell from breaking when the egg is boiled.
After soaking for 10 minutes, both the perilla leaves and the eggs should be washed several times with running water.
At this time, prepare a large pot, put our perilla leaves in the pot, put it at the bottom, then put the eggs on the top, and then pour in water to cover the eggs.
We put a lid on it, bring the water to a boil on high heat, then turn the heat to low and cook it for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes we open the lid and turn it over so that each egg can be heated evenly, and continue to close the lid.
After another 5 minutes, scoop up all the eggs and break them with a spoon, mainly to make the eggs more flavorful. Then put it in, cover the lid, turn off the heat, and simmer for 15 minutes, the egg will definitely add more flavor, and this shiso boiled egg will be cooked.
Don't throw away the water from the perilla leaves, you can drink it, because we have washed the perilla thoroughly before. Add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, or rock sugar honey, so that it will taste sweeter.
When we peel off the shell of the egg, we can see its lines, and it also gives off a scent of perilla. After peeling the egg, we pour it into the perilla water.
When we eat it, we can take a sip of water and a mouthful of eggs, which is nutritious and healthy. After the water of perilla leaves is cooked, it has a feeling like drinking herbal tea, and it also has the fragrance of perilla.
Boiled eggs with perilla leaves
Nutritious and healthy
The prescription for boiled eggs with perilla, wild or planted perilla can often be seen in the fields and on the side of the road in front of the house, and the eggs we eat every day, what are the effects of this prescription?
Perilla leaves, as the designated condiment of sashimi, have been around since the Western Han Dynasty. The use of perilla leaves to make tea and drink it was extremely popular in ancient times, and it was even appointed as the first drink by the emperor in the Song Dynasty.
Eaten with eggs, it can dissipate heat while replenishing qi and enhancing the body's resistance. In addition, stewed, scrambled or steamed eggs with perilla leaves can all have such an effect.
Enhance immunity while protecting the liver, the protein in eggs has a repair effect on liver tissue damage, and the lecithin in egg yolk can promote the regeneration of liver cells. It can also increase the amount of plasma protein in the human body and enhance the metabolic function and immune function of our body. What about perilla, which can inhibit the growth of staphylobacterium and improve human immunity.
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular protector, perilla leaf is a veritable cardiovascular and cerebrovascular protector, because this ingredient contains a large amount of unsaturated fatty acids, which can not only clean up cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, but also increase the elasticity and permeability of blood vessels, which can promote blood circulation and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular lesions.
The brain also likes it, we all know that eggs have a great effect on brain development, children should eat more eggs, because they will become smarter, mainly because the choline contained in it can improve the memory of various age groups, so our elderly friends can also eat. Perilla leaves have the same effect.
Perilla boiled eggs, which are the main ingredient, have been found to be inversely proportional to selenium intake based on an analysis of human cancer mortality worldwide. Eggs are rich in selenium.
Other effects: Perilla boiled eggs can relieve dry and itchy throat, cough, hoarseness, effective cough and phlegm, and have a very good effect on emphysema and tracheitis. It can also indeed have a certain fetal effect, which is mainly the role of perilla.
In general, healthy adults eat 1-2 eggs per day; It is better for the elderly to eat one a day; It is more appropriate for mental workers to eat two eggs a day; Pregnant women, parturient women, lactating women and people with weak bodies can eat 2-3 eggs a day, not more.
Eggs and perilla are boiled like this, which can give full play to the nutritional value of both, and friends who like to eat eggs can try to do so!
