Leek – a plant unpretentious and very nutritive. Its advantage and gustatory qualities almost don't differ from the glorified asparagus – therefore absolutely unfairly it is called "an asparagus for poor people". Leek has one more difference from other grades of onions – at storage in it the amount of ascorbic acid increases, and here any other onions at storage, on the contrary, lose it. It is possible to store a leek about half a year.
The women anxious with an issue of weight loss can use leek in the diet. It consists generally of water therefore differs in very small caloric content. But its nutritional value is high: it contains sugar, vitamins, proteins, mineral salts and substances – for example, potassium.
At weight loss it is convenient to eat leek because it is capable to satisfy quickly hunger, but in it a minimum of calories, and taste very pleasant, juicy. It is possible both to cook these onions and to fry and to preserve, it perfectly is suitable for use both in crude, and in dried, and in a freshly frozen look, and it isn't necessary to suffer from scarcity of a dietary diet. If you want to lose weight or just not to allow formation of extra kilos, by all means include this product in the diet.
It is possible to prepare from leek very much simpledietaryof dish . For example, salad. Several stalks of onions should be cleaned and lowered in the boiling water for five minutes. Then to get, cool and cut, for gas station to use soy vinegar. It is possible to season salad to taste.