In the Mediterranean countries and the countries of the Southern Asia this vegetable is used crude, boiled, baked, fried in oil and in batter. With an excess weight the experts in dietology advise people to include broccoli in a daily diet.
Broccoli can be found practically in each shop at the affordable price. Can seem surprising, but for receiving feeling of saturation of rather small portion – there will quite be enough 10 inflorescences. For giving of aroma and strengthening of gustatory qualities the cabbage is combined with other nutritious products: Parmesan cheese, olives, bacon, low-fat cottage cheese. Ready-to-eat meals will become a source of useful substances, vitamins, antioxidants. Even slightly boiled cabbage in the added some salt water becomes a useful dietary dish – the caloric content of boiled broccoli on 100 grams of a product is about 27 kcal. Caloric content of stewed broccoli is a little higher – 39 kcal.
Boiled broccoli is considered useful to weight loss. Except useful substances in structure and low caloric content, broccoli is a source of rough food fibers which reduce appetite, give sense of fulness and promote natural clarification of intestines. At digestion of broccoli the organism spends energy more, than receives from this product. Nutritionists call it negative caloric content.
Broccoli is included in a diet of many stars of show business. It is explained by abundance of the useful substances and amino acids which are responsible for youth and beauty of skin such as leucine, valine, threonine, tryptophane, methionine, lysine.
Broccoli regulates processes of a fat and carbohydraee metabolism. Vitamins of group B at a combination to a chlorophyll help to acquire better carbohydrates, accelerating a metabolism, and, as a result, raising an expense of calories. Locks and intoxication of an organism are also solved at active consumption of broccoli.
Vegetable is known for magnificent gustatory qualities. A variety of recipes of dishes with participation of broccoli will satisfy even the most refined taste without prejudice to health or the weight of the person.
Fasting day with broccoli
Persons interested to lose excess weight will suit fasting day with broccoli. For this purpose cook soup especially for weight loss. Thanks to this dish it is possible to satisfy hunger without risk to receive excess calories. The products which are a part of a dish are noncaloric and useful to immune protection of the person.
It is extremely simple to cook soup. To small cut one large potato and one bulb of average size, then to extinguish within 5 minutes with use of a small amount of water. Add 300-400 g of broccoli and cook within 15 minutes. Place ready vegetables together with broth in the blender and crush before receiving homogeneous mass. Add salt, seasonings, skim milk.
In fasting day it is necessary to adhere to the system of fractional food, having divided the received amount of soup into 5 receptions. During a diet it is necessary to use a large amount of fresh water, a green tea or grass infusions.