Desserts with vegetables: unexpected goodies

Fruit delicacies firmly occupy a place of honor on the sweet table, they are familiar and loved by many. Meanwhile, in many domestic kitchens exist not only fruit, vegetables and desserts. Gourmet dessert with vegetables original taste different and, like other vegetable dishes are very good for health.

Doctors strongly recommend that every day there are at least five hundred grams of vegetables. It is with the lack of vegetables in the diet, doctors attributed the prevalence of many cardiovascular diseases, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, deficiency diseases and other ailments. After all, vegetables - it's just a storehouse of vitamins and minerals, they contain antioxidants, as well as useful, slowly digestible carbohydrates and fiber necessary for good bowel function.

Low calorie vegetables makes them an indispensable component of many diets aimed at weight reduction. A variety of vegetable diet can not only get rid of excess fat, but also cleanse the body and organize the work of the gastrointestinal tract.

Each vegetable is useful in its own way . For example, tomatoes contain a lot of vitamin C, the strongest antioxidant lycopene and substances that improve mood . Potatoes are not for nothing called the "second bread" . This hearty vegetable that contains huge amounts of potassium, is the basis for the preparation of many dishes . The proteins of potato easily digested . Sweet pepper is especially useful for vessels - through a combination of vitamins C and PP it strengthens their walls . Useful this vegetable and in diseases of the nervous system, and for the prevention of diabetes . All kinds of cabbage contain a large amount of fiber and rare vitamins which are used to treat stomach ulcers . Very useful for human and beets rich in iron, magnesium and iodine . Fresh cucumbers are useful for kidney, liver, cardiovascular system . Carotene rich carrots improves lung function and helps keep vision sharp for years to come . Jerusalem artichoke reduces blood sugar levels and also helps to improve vision . Peas and broccoli - recognized anti-cancer agent .

For preventing various diseases and for the preservation of a youth Keeping youth - proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle

and beauty to your daily diet should include plenty of different vegetables. Some vegetables, such as cucumbers, preferably eaten fresh, while others tolerate the heat treatment, while maintaining useful properties.

At the end of the twentieth century, it became fashionable eclectic culinary cooks creative approach to the combination of products, inventing new dishes. For example, creative chefs invent exquisite desserts made with unusual materials - vegetables. Unexpected but surprisingly pleasant taste such dishes makes for a fresh look at the vegetables.

Meanwhile, desserts, vegetables - not quite the novelty . Crops such as carrots, beets and pumpkin have long been used for making sweet dishes in a variety of national cuisines . For example, very popular beet and carrot candied . Cherry tomatoes, dried and used as conventional dried fruits - in kind or in sweet dishes . In Moldova, from small unripe tomatoes cook a tasty jam . And it can be used as green tomatoes, and red, as long as the flesh was dense enough . Few, tasting this delicacy can guess that the raw material for jam served tomatoes . In Poland, the popular jam zucchini, squash, even this species is called "Polish pineapple" because of the jam with lemon zucchini has a delicate pineapple flavor . Worldwide hostess cook pumpkin jam and a pumpkin with the addition of apples . Finally, the carrot jam is popular in all European countries, but especially love it in Portugal . This love of the Portuguese to the carrot jam has meant that in nineteen ninety-second year, the EU agreed to consider carrots fruit because of European laws cook jams and preserves can be entirely of raw fruit . Thus, in European countries root was regarded as fruit, jam and carrot actively produced in commercial quantities .

From vegetables prepared not only preserves and jams. Sometimes, vegetables are served for dessert with fresh, without subjecting to heat treatment which destroys vitamins. So, in the Baltic countries for dessert served tomatoes with sugar, in Russia like a salad of carrots with honey and nuts, and Belarusians and Poles poured honey cucumber. Add the vegetables and sweet fruit salad - is particularly well suited for such useful vitamin dishes pumpkin, carrot, cucumber and celery Celery: vegetable with obvious advantages

Celery: vegetable with obvious advantages

. In combination with fruit, berries and sweet ingredients vegetables acquire an unexpected original taste.

Actively used vegetables and baking pastry, cakes and casseroles Casseroles. The variety and economy

. The famous carrot cake with cinnamon and ginger, popular in Europe, the United States and Canada, has a delicious orange. For the first time you try this cake, many say that a particular carrot taste is not there. The same can be said about the potato patties with sweet filling - potato flavor is not felt, but the root change the quality of the test, make it more elastic, durable and, of course, useful due to high content of minerals in vegetables and fiber. At the same time we should not think that baked with vegetables help to lose weight: calorie carrot cake is not lower than that of other cakes, and potato cakes can not be called a dietary dish.

Vegetable desserts are particularly well suited for child nutrition: they not only benefit the growing organism, but also form a taste for healthy food. Fragrant casserole of carrots or pumpkin with the addition of cheese and fruit are popular with children and crowning achievement of lunch or dinner.