How to eat fresh sesame leaves

Fresh sesame leaves taste good and can be eaten in many ways. For example, they can often be used for cold dishes, or they can be chopped up and made into pancakes. They can also be made into sesame leaf noodles, which are all common ways of eating them. You can also use sesame leaves to cook pomfret, which has certain therapeutic effects and is effective in moisturizing the intestines. It also has a certain effect in preventing kidney deficiency.

How to eat fresh sesame leaves: Grilled pomfret with sesame leaves

Ingredients: pomfret, sesame leaves, green and red peppers, minced ginger, garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, and pepper powder. Method: Wash the pomfret and let it dry; soak the sesame leaves, wash them, and chop them; chop the green and red peppers for later use; chop the ginger and lightly crush the garlic. Heat the pan with cold oil, sauté the minced ginger and Sichuan peppercorns, add the sesame leaves and stir-fry for a while, then add the chili and garlic, continue to stir-fry for a few minutes, add salt and a little light soy sauce, add water and bring to a boil, add the pomfret, add some cooking wine and pepper, and cook over high heat until the juice is dry.

Dietary effects

Sesame leaves are mild in nature and bitter in taste; they have the function of nourishing the liver and kidneys, moisturizing the intestines; they can treat liver and kidney deficiency, dizziness, hair loss after illness, dryness of body fluid and blood, constipation, etc.

Note: The best time to pick sesame leaves is mid-July. When pinching leaves, pinch from bottom to top, or from top to bottom. This is the only way to pinch it cleanly. After pinching, the second step is frying, which is blanching in boiling water for 10 minutes. Then scoop it out and spread it in the dirt and ashes. When it is half dry, rub it with your hands to make the soil ash fully and evenly adhere to the surface of the sesame leaves. Only sesame leaves covered with dirt taste the most delicious. After the sesame leaves are fully dried, they will become wrinkled like tea leaves or wood ears, and then you need to store them. There are also some requirements for storage. You can’t use baskets or bags. The best way to store them is with lotus leaves. The lotus leaves were dried and spread out one by one, overlapping each other, like a round sheet. The dry sesame leaves were placed on top and then tied with hemp ropes to form an inverted hydrogen balloon shape, weighing about forty or fifty kilograms, and then hung on the beams inside the house. This way, the air is ventilated and the taste is not changed, and you can eat it whenever you want.

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