According to research scientists, on the day you need to eat at least five hundred grams of vegetables, fruit or berries. So, vegetable salads should definitely go into the daily menu. However, vegetable dishes like not all: perhaps the reason is that not everyone is able to choose and cook the vegetables so that they were not only useful but also delicious.

Complicated relationship

For vegetables ambiguous attitude in society. On the one hand, everyone knows that the vegetables - it is a useful and healthy food that helps maintain a slim figure Slim figure: acquire and hold   and flourishing appearance. On the other hand, few people believed the vegetables really tasty. A symbol of prosperity have always been meat products and vegetables from time immemorial considered a food of the poor, undervalued food. And although today so nobody believes many in the heart relate to vegetable crops slightly dismissive.

Ironically, considerations of prestige can be very important, even in areas such as cooking. The restaurant menu is not accidental stress that the salads are not prepared from the usual carrot and safety of varieties grown in special conditions, not because of a simple green peas, and from environmentally friendly. Of course, this affects the price of food, but at the same time makes you want to try these dishes.

Passion for fitness led to the fact that people began to eat vegetables more. Nutritionists and fitness guru managed to convince mankind in the use of celery, carrots, cucumbers, asparagus and other crops. But to instill a love of vegetables they failed: the majority of eating such food solely from the imagination of its usefulness, in the depths of the soul dreaming of sausages, sweets, mayonnaise and other "forbidden" treats.

Why is the taste of vegetables and remains undervalued? Most likely, it's the inability to choose the vegetables, cook them properly and correctly combine. The same product may have very different tastes depending on who cooks, and the vegetables are also applicable to the full. Banal tomato salad can become a heavenly ambrosia, if you use ground tomatoes grown in the sun, and do not forget about the spices. Organic vegetables do not always look attractive and not always well-kept, but they always have a pronounced rich flavor, vivid and memorable.

Vegetables for salad

Salads can be made completely of any vegetables. You just need to make sure that the vegetables were fresh and natural. If the fruit taste good, there is little hope that one will make a good salad, though perhaps in a salad vegetables such will be still better than "solo".

Preparation products require minimal. Typically, the most useful salads made from fresh vegetables, which are required only to wash and - if necessary - clean. For some salad vegetables are subjected to heat treatment - typically boiled or steamed in a small amount of water. Cook vegetables in better skin, so keep the maximum amount of vitamins. It is also important to cool completely before adding the vegetables in a salad. Finally, the so-called warm salads made from fried or baked in the oven or grilled vegetables - eggplant, peppers, tomatoes and others.

For vegetable salads sometimes add some other products, most importantly, to the vegetables still prevailed. Among the additives can be eggs, slices of ham, fish or poultry, seafood, cheese. Of course, all of these products make the salad more nutritious, but at the same time they enrich the meal with vitamins and minerals, as well as improve its taste.

Making vegetable salad original flavor by adding a small amount of fruit vegetables. Sour or sweet apples, peaches, strawberries, cranberries, even in small amounts can significantly change the taste and make it more interesting and sophisticated. However, frankly sweet salads to one's soul not for everyone, so you need to carefully monitor the balance of sweet, salty, sour and spicy flavors.

Secrets of a tasty filling

Even the most delicious salad can be irreparably spoil if you use an unsuccessful refueling. On sale you can find ready-made dressings, which can only add to the salad. Such refueling - a real lifesaver for those in a hurry, but they taste rather quickly bored. In addition, any such salads with ingredients seem to be too similar to one another. Therefore, it is better to prepare yourself filling just before eating.

One of the most popular home salad dressings - sour cream. Her delicate dairy flavor goes well with cucumbers and tomatoes, radish and radish, beets, onions, and even potatoes. Many find this dressing is too simple, but the usual sour cream can give an interesting flavor, if you do not forget about the spices. A little chopped dill, clove garlic, capers and spoon a small amount of sweet paprika powder - and turn sour in the original dressing.

Those who are watching caloric intake, prefer instead of sour cream Smetana: untold riches of Russian cuisine   used for refueling natural yoghurt. In this case, it is necessary to ensure that refueling has not turned out too acidic, adjusting the taste of honey additive The benefits of honey: tasty recovery , Salt or pepper.

Traditional dressings are prepared on the basis of oil. Crude oil always has its own bright flavor, which will give the dish a charm. Someone like salads with olive oil, someone like sunflower and originals seasoned vegetables peanut butter. If you wish, you can use refined oil, giving it the flavor by using spices and balsamic vinegar.

Selection of spices that can be added to the filling, is very wide - it's all kinds of peppers, and garlic, and various herbs. Spices can be added directly to the vegetables, and then fill the salad oil, but you can first prepare dressing, then add it to the vegetables.

Maria Bykov

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