This wonderful plant - spinach - was known even before our era. From Persia, the Arabs brought spinach to Spain, and then they began to grow and eat it in America and Europe.
Spinach flavor
Spinach is eaten fresh or boiled, baked, mashed, used as pie filling, snacks and sauces. Spinach does not have a particularly pronounced taste. That is, the taste, without the addition of salt and spices, is none. It does not contain sorrel leaf acid, rucola bitterness, basil aroma. No spice can be compared with it. The closest to spinach are cabbage salads, especially romaine.
The benefits of spinach
Why is this tasteless plant so popular? Spinach is very healthy. It saturates the body with the necessary elements, removes toxins and toxins. Spinach improves metabolism and activates hemoglobin. Eating spinach heals the teeth and gums, prevents the development of tumors, normalizes the gastrointestinal tract and strengthens blood vessels.
Spinach is called the "king" of food plants for its unique composition, which includes proteins, fats, carbohydrates, organic acids, fiber, sugars, starch, vitamins A, E, C, H, K, PP, group B, beta-carotene and almost all macro- and microelements found in other plants.
Spinach dishes
They learned to cook many dishes from spinach. The classic use of spinach is puree soup. For cooking, take 1 potato, 1 onion, 1 small root of fresh ginger, 400 g of frozen or a pound of fresh spinach, 3 cloves of garlic, 250 ml of chicken broth, 2 tbsp. l. olive oil, a spoonful of lemon juice, pepper and salt.
The olive oil is heated in a saucepan, chopped garlic, onion and ginger are added and fried until soft. Then pour in lemon juice, put chopped spinach, diced potatoes in a saucepan, pour in broth and, bringing to a boil, cook for 10 minutes. After that, the soup is pureed in a blender, seasoned with salt and pepper and served.
Tagliatelle with spinach is a very tasty second course. You will need 6 tagliatelle nests, 300 grams of fresh spinach leaves, half a liter of heavy cream, nutmeg, pepper and salt. The spinach is cut into large pieces. The cream is boiled and spinach is added to it. When the cream is half evaporated, the mass is seasoned with spices. The boiled tagliatelle is placed on plates and a creamy spinach sauce is placed inside the "nests".
Healthy fresh spinach and other fruits. Take 100 g of spinach, 2 bananas, 1 large apple, 2 kiwi and 2 orange. Juice is squeezed out of apple spinach and oranges. Bananas and kiwi are ground in a blender. Everything is mixed, poured into glasses, served with ice.
