This wonderful plant – spinach – was known still B.C. From Persia the Arabs brought spinach to Spain, and then began to grow up and eat it in America and the countries of Europe.
Taste of spinach
Spinach is eaten fresh or cooked, baked, do puree, used as a stuffing for pies, cook snack and sauces. Spinach has no peculiar pronounced taste. That is on taste, without addition of salt and spices, it is any. In it there is no acid of leaves of a sorrel, slightly bitter taste of arugula, aroma of a basil. It is impossible to compare any spice to it. Closest to spinach cabbage lettuces, especially Romain.
Advantage of spinach
Why this tasteless plant enjoys such popularity? Spinach is very useful. It sates an organism with necessary elements, removes slags and toxins. Spinach improves a metabolism and activates hemoglobin. Consumption of spinach revitalizes teeth and gums, prevents development of tumors, normalizes activity of a GIT and strengthens blood vessels.
Spinach is called "king" of food plants for unique structure which includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, organic acids, cellulose, sugar, starch, vitamins A, E, C, N, K, PP, groups B, beta carotene and almost everything available in other plants macro - and minerals.
Spinach dishes
From spinach learned to cook a set of dishes. Classical consumption of spinach – a cream soup. For preparation 1 potato, 1 bulb, 1 small root of fresh ginger, 400 g frozen or half a kilo of fresh spinach, 3 teeth of garlic, 250 ml of chicken broth, 2 tablespoons of olive oil, a lemon juice spoon, pepper and salt undertakes. Olive oil is heated in a pan, add the crushed garlic, onions and ginger and fried to softness. Then pour in lemon juice, place the cut spinach cut into cubes potatoes in a pan pour in broth and, having brought to the boil, prepare 10 minutes. After that soup pyurirutsya in the blender, is seasoned with salt and pepper and is served to a table. Very tasty second course are tagliatelle with spinach. 6 "nests" of tagliatelle, 300 g of leaves of fresh spinach, half of liter of heavy cream, nutmeg, pepper and salt are required. Spinach is cut largely. Cream boils and adds to them spinach. When cream half is evaporated, weight is seasoned with spices. The boiled tagliatelle are located on plates and in "nests" creamy and spinach sauce gives all the best. Juice from spinach and other fruit is useful to health. 100 g of spinach, 2 bananas, 1 large apple, on 2 kiwis and orange undertake. From spinach of apple and oranges juice is wrung out. Bananas and a kiwi are crushed in the blender. Everything mixes up, spreads on glasses, moves with ice.