On hot days, prepare delicious, refreshing dishes that are both liver-cooling and delicious from this wild vegetable.

Cool off on hot days with pennywort

Gotu kola is a common vegetable that used to grow wild. According to Dr. Huynh Tan Vu (University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City), gotu kola is a very good vegetable for cooling down the body in hot weather.

Gotu kola has a bitter taste and cold properties. It has the effect of clearing heat, promoting urination, reducing swelling and detoxifying. It is used to treat summer diarrhea, allergic rashes, urinary tract stones, etc. Oriental medicine still considers gotu kola to be both a yin and yang medicine. When eating foods that are slightly cold or too hot, using gotu kola has a moderating effect. For example, when eating spicy foods or foods that are cold, gotu kola is often used to regulate, because gotu kola has both cold and hot properties.

Gotu kola is a wild vegetable that grows a lot.

In the summer, people are prone to rashes and heat rash. They can use 30-100g of fresh pennywort, wash it, crush it, squeeze out the juice and drink it every day or use a blender to crush it and mix it with sugar to drink. Drinking pennywort also helps to relieve heatstroke.

Although pennywort cools the liver and is good for heat dissipation, experts advise that people should not abuse it and drink it regularly. A normal person can drink a cup of pennywort (about 40g of pennywort) a day, but should not drink it for more than 1 month, continuously. In addition, people with diabetes should use it in moderation. Using too much, regularly can lead to increased blood sugar levels.

In addition to using boiled or raw pennywort, you can use pennywort to make simple drinks and dishes to cool the liver on hot days.

Delicious and easy to make cooling dish from pennywort

* Gotu kola juice with coconut milk

- Ingredients for making pennywort juice with coconut milk

+ Gotu kola

+ 100g mung beans soaked for 8 hours

+ 100ml canned coconut milk

+ 50g sugar

How to make pennywort juice with coconut milk:

Remove the roots of the pennywort, choose the leaves and stems for a smooth, lump-free milk. After washing, squeeze the pennywort to get the juice and dilute it with boiled water to cool or squeeze the leaves and water together. Steam or boil the mung beans until cooked, then mix with sugar and coconut milk, mash and simmer until thick. When drinking, put the mung beans and coconut milk at the bottom of the cup, add the juice and add ice for a more refreshing taste.

Drink made from pennywort helps to cool down on summer days very well.

* Gotu kola and pig ear salad

Ingredients for making pennywort and pig ear salad

+ 200gr pennywort

+ 1 pig ear

+ Roasted peanuts

+ Lemon

+ Garlic, chili

+ Seasoning: fish sauce, MSG, sugar, seasoning powder.

- How to make pennywort and pig ear salad

Step 1: Wash and drain the pennywort. Boil the pig's ear with a little salt until cooked, put it in a bowl of cold water, add some ice to make the ear crispier and squeeze lemon juice to make the ear white. Then take it out and slice it thinly. Crush the roasted peanuts, mince the garlic, and chop the chili.

Step 2: Put the pig's ear in the pot in a bowl, add about 3 tablespoons of sugar and use gloves to squeeze the sugar to absorb. Next, add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, MSG, and minced garlic to squeeze evenly. After mixing well and absorbing, add pennywort, add a little sugar, chili and squeeze the lemon and mix well. Season to taste, then add peanuts and it's done. Mix well and arrange on a plate, sprinkle peanuts and pepper on top.

* Stir-fried pennywort with goat meat

Goat meat stir-fried with pennywort is also one of the delicious dishes to cool down on hot days with pennywort, you should try. The goat meat is stir-fried to retain its toughness along with the slight bitterness of pennywort, very unique to eat.

Ingredients for stir-fried goat meat with pennywort:

+ 200gr fresh goat meat

+ 300gr pennywort

+ Garlic

+ Onion

+ Vinegar, fish sauce, oil, sugar, MSG.

- How to make stir-fried pennywort with goat meat

Wash goat meat, slice thinly and marinate with fish sauce, MSG, and a little cooking oil until soft. Wash pennywort and drain.

Add oil to the pan and stir-fry goat meat with onion, then add vinegar and sugar, stir well and add pennywort and stir-fry for a few more minutes.

* Chicken and pennywort salad

- Main ingredients:

+ Gotu kola

+ Shrimp

+ Chicken

+ Vietnamese coriander

+ Carrots, garlic, chili, lemon, peanuts,..

Depending on your preference, you can add onions, bean sprouts, cucumbers, etc.

- How to do:

Wash pennywort, soak in diluted salt water then drain. Clean shrimp, boil then peel, remove head. Boil chicken, cut into thin strips; Peel carrots then shred thinly. Wash Vietnamese coriander, peel and chop garlic and chili.

After preparing all the ingredients, you make the mixed sauce including garlic, chili, lemon, MSG, fish sauce, seasoning powder... When you have the mixed sauce, you pour it on the prepared ingredients above, season to taste.

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