Bai Bua Bok is the Thai name for Asiatac Pennywort. A green herb you will find everywhere as a creeper on the premises of the Thai Child Development Foundation and Eco-Logic Thailand. In our restaurant we serve a refreshing juice made from the leaves of the Asiatic Pennywort and we use the leaves for decorating drinks
More information about the Asiatac Pennywort can be found here.
Asiatic Pennywort Juice
Prep time: 2 minutes Cook time: 8 minutes Total time: 10 minutes Serves: 2 glasses
INGREDIENTS
1 cup of Asiatic Pennywort leaves and stalks
2 teaspoons of honey
230 ml water
FOR SERVING:
Ice cubes (freeze some small leaves in your icecubes!)
EQUIPMENT
A blender
A sieve
A pan
Cups or glass for serving
PREPARATION
Pick the pennywort leaves and stalks
Clean the leaves and the stalks
METHOD
Into a blender put half the water, and the cleaned leaves and stalks.
Blend to a pulp
Sieve the pulp squeezing out all the juices you can.
The remaining water goes into a pan with the honey.
Heat an a low/medium heat until the honey is dissolved and the water boiling
Add the squeezed juice
Leave to cool.
SERVING:
Add ice cubes to a glass
Serve over ice cubes
Add a pennywort leave for decoration
This recipe is made at the @THEFOODFORESTKITCHEN, the slow food restaurant of @ECOLOGICTHAILAND.
Come and taste the wonderful homemade, fresh, organic food and drinks, while you enjoy the view over the rain forest and valley!
A MEAL WITH A VIEW.
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