Onions shallot are often used both in cookery, and in other spheres, it has a set of advantages, useful substances and features which distinguish it from other types of onions. In our article we will tell about what is it and as it is correct to use it.
As onions shallot look
Externally onions shallot have no special differences from napiform, many even consider that this look is small, not grown usual though it not so. It has the oblong, rounded-off shape and rather small size in comparison with other types of onions.
Its color can not differ from a habitual reddish shade, but also both pink, and white color of this look is widespread. The head consists of several bulbs, as at garlic.
Read also about useful properties of green onions.
What differs from napiform in
The first bright difference is the small size and variations of shades. Also it is much easier in respect of cultivation as yields a bigger harvest and quicker ripens. High level of frost resistance allows to plant a plant towards the winter and to reap a crop in February several weeks prior to the first fruits of an early grade napiform.
This look can also be grown up also in house conditions unlike napiform, for example, on a window sill. Also the chemical composition is different: in this look there are much more vitamin C and sugar. The first allows onions to be good antiviral means, and the second creates caramelization when cooking. Other chemical elements lead to the fact that it has more distinguished taste, it can be used at preparation of refined dishes, sauces. Onions feathers of shallot, unlike napiform, always remain soft even if it is a late harvest, they have bigger amount of medicinal properties including dietary. The most important difference is the lack of a pungent smell which is present at napiform.
Chemical composition
In total special properties of onions shallot are caused by its chemical composition, it also distinguishes it from other types.
Vitamins
Such vitamins are a part: ascorbic acid, vitamins E and To, group B vitamins: thiamine (B1), Riboflavinum (B2), niatsin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5), B6 vitamin, biotin (B7), folic acid (B9) and B12 vitamin. And also essential oils, phytoncides, carotinoids.
Minerals
This product is also rich with minerals, it contains salts of potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron and also there are a nickel, cobalt, chrome, vanadium, molybdenum, titanium, silicon, germany, zinc, manganese, selenium, copper and sodium.
Nutrition value and caloric content
100 grams of shallot contain 72 kilocalories, the bulk of this energy is made by carbohydrates which 16.8 grams on 100 grams of a product, or 67 kilocalories. In structure it is possible to allocate about 80% of water, 17% of carbohydrates, 3% of proteins and less than 1% of fats and ashes.
Also it contains cellulose, starch and sugar.
Useful properties of onions shallot
Thanks to a large amount of the vitamins and minerals which are contained in a product it has anti-inflammatory effect and also antiviral. Improves immunity, promotes good work of a digestive tract, it is recommended at treatment of diseases of eyes, promotes a fast metabolism and good blood circulation.
Learn what vitamins are necessary to an organism for strengthening of immunity and improvement of sight.
Application of a product
This product can be used not only as one of ingredients for dishes, but also as means which will help to recover, or to warn a disease.
Use in traditional medicine
Thanks to availability of phytoncides, shallot can be applied to treatment of purulent diseases, for example, at cold advise the cotton tampons moistened in fresh juice to put in both nostrils for 3-5 minutes. It well influences also a throat if it is also infected. Such method is valid even at serious diseases like a tonsillitis.
If it is necessary to direct treatment to a throat, or lungs it is desirable to use gruel from a plant for inhalations. The onions fried on butter can serve as supportive application at treatment of cough. To get rid of cough it is also possible to mix polished vegetable with goose fat. To use mix as ointment, rubbing in a thorax and as internal remedy, using on 1 spoon of mix on an empty stomach once a day.
Important! When using onions in treatment it is necessary to be convinced of lack of individual shipping of a product.
Use of gruel from vegetable for treatment of burns or prevention of emergence of burn bubbles is also possible. Soup from this product is useful to those who have diabetes. Shallot tincture is also widely applied at treatment of a number of diseases:
- prostatitis;
- hemorrhoids;
- gastritis;
- infection with worms;
- hypertension;
- general weakness.
Broth from a peel can help to get rid of dandruff and to improve the fine, broken hair with split ends. For this purpose 200 grams of a peel need to be filled in with hot water and to boil within 5-7 minutes, after to filter broth and to allow it to infuse 3-4 hours. They can wash out hair after use of shampoo or separately from washing.
In cookery
Thanks to a delicate gentle taste, lack of bitterness and strong sharpness, shallot is widely used in cookery. It is applied to preparation of various sauces, salads, added to vegetables, fish, meat. Special attention should be paid to onions soups (it is very popular for preparation of cream soups).
Get acquainted with a recipe for onions soup.
Also it can be used and as a separate dish. The recipe of marinated shallot which is wonderfully combined with different other treats can be an example of it. List of products:
- 200 ml of water;
- 4 garlic gloves;
- 30 ml of vegetable oil;
- 30 ml of 9% of vinegar;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- 0.5 salt tablespoon;
- 10 seeds of peppercorn;
- 10 seeds of allspice;
- 3 carnations;
- 2 bay leaves;
- 500 grams of onions shallot;
- 1 beet.
Preparation process:
- For a start it is necessary to peel shallot and also to cut garlic and beet. The last is added only for color.
- After to put water on fire and to add to it ingredients in turn: garlic, oil, vinegar, sugar, salt, bell pepper, allspice, carnation, bay leaf.
- After water with spices began to boil, to add onions and beet.
- To allow to boil during a couple of minutes and to fill in mix in sterilized to bank.
- Marinated onions can be stored in such look up to 6 months.
We open secrets: as it is correct to clean and cut onions
One of features of shallot that it very easily breaks up for this reason it is necessary to know how it is correct to cut and clean it. To clean a product the usual knife is necessary, it is necessary to remove a peel, beginning from that place where leaves, and to a fruit stem grow.
Important! The fruit stem, or fastening with hairs in the bottom of onions should not be cut off. It is necessary in order that it did not break up.
If small cut option is necessary, it is necessary to make several longitudinal sections, without reaching the end and to cut onions in cubes if in larger look, together with a fruit stem it is necessary to cut it in half.
About harm and contraindications
Harmful shallot can be for people with the increased acidity of a stomach — the product contains substances which just and increase it.
Also large number of onions is not recommended to be used at diseases of digestive tract and an uric system as it can cause difficulty at urination.
Rules of storage
It is recommended to store onions shallot in cold as in heat it loses the flavoring and medicinal properties over time. Therefore the fridge — the optimum place for storage of onions. It remains fresh much longer, than napiform.
It is useful to study rules of storage of products in the fridge.
Not less useful types of onions
Despite a set of advantages of onions shallot, other types also are useful, vitamin-rich and minerals, and they can be used for preparation of various dishes.
Napiform
Onions — one of the most popular vegetable cultures, it is used for preparation of a set of dishes worldwide and also as remedy. It has red color a peel and round shape. It is one of the largest types. In cookery onions are cooked together with salads, soups, fried to meat, fish, pickled and baked.
Learn more about useful properties and application of onions.
It is possible to refer to useful properties of onions:
- availability of phytoncides which kill harmful bacteria;
- stimulation release of digestive juice;
- use at treatment a vodyanok;
- contributes to normalization of a menstrual cycle;
- antivermicular means;
- stimulation of development of spermatozoa;
- large amount of vitamins and minerals;
- antiseptic.
Whether you know? Onions — one of the most ancient vegetable cultures, it was known in 4000 years BC.
The onions are contraindicated to people with cardiovascular diseases as it increases pressure and can break work of heart. It is not recommended to the use to the people having problems with a liver.
Slizun
Luk-slizun — one of the most unusual types of this product.
It has small bulbs of a red color and the green, thick, rounded-off leaves. Thanks to such unusual form it is applied not only in cookery and medicine, but also grown up as an ornamental plant. It is possible to carry to advantages of this look:
- beneficial influence on a cardiovascular system;
- increase in immunity;
- increase in hemoglobin;
- contribution to good work of digestive tract;
- improvement of appetite;
- availability of Riboflavinum promotes harmonious work of a thyroid gland;
- prevention of oncological diseases;
- the best digestion of salts of iron.
Slizun has also contraindications. So, there is an individual intolerance of this product and at exacerbations of diseases of digestive tract it is also desirable to limit it.
Leek
This vegetable — one of the most unusual types of onions, it has flat long leaves and a bulb which connects to them by means of a thick white leg. Most often it is used at preparation of salads, or give together with a garnish. But it has also medicinal properties.
Learn more about useful properties and application of leek.
Leek is applied at:
- rheumatism;
- obesity;
- urolithic disease;
- catarrhal diseases;
- problems with a liver;
- low immunity;
- small appetite;
- sclerosis;
- to bad work of vocal chords.
It is strictly forbidden the uses of this product for people with diseases of kidneys, exacerbations of gastrointestinal diseases, namely — a duodenum. Overconsumption can cause a headache.
Shallot or napiform — what is better
Both negative, and positive properties and also set of distinctions have both appearance of onions. Therefore to define, what is better, it is necessary, making a start from a task for which the product is used: if this preparation of gentle sauce or cream soup, then more suitable is onions shallot. If it is prevention of cold, then more effective are the onions.
Whether you know? During Crusades, onions were an obligatory part of a diet of knights.
Thus, it is possible to draw a conclusion that onions shallot are an irreplaceable product for preparation of a set of refined dishes and also good remedy. It possesses an impressive set of vitamins and minerals, gentle taste and has no pungent smell.