The main character of our conversation is celery. The benefit of the vegetable is in its ability to restore vitality, libido, beauty, health to a person. But you can also harm your body without knowing all its properties. Although, of course, this is unlikely to happen after the first dinner. The best effect will be if celery becomes part of the daily diet. Everything is good in moderation. I really love root celery, so below are some recipes on how to cook it correctly. And you plant it in your garden, in the garden, in the country? Not? Why? If the reason is ignorance, read the article. Perhaps your attitude to this culture will change.
Do you know such proverbs?
- “If you want to run faster, eat more celery.”
- "The wife was pleased with her husband: celery was served for dinner."
Celery is leaf, petiole, root. Leaf, petiole planted by many. As for the root, not everyone knows, even what it looks like.
Enthusiastic summer residents with great experience, of course, are familiar with him, but they are not included in the list of everyone’s favorite root crops, which necessarily includes potatoes, carrots, beets, and celery root. Root celery has a rather long vegetative period. Maybe that's why it is not very popular among gardeners.
The use of celery has been known since the time of Hippocrates. The beauty from ancient Greek myths Aphrodite not without reason loved this vegetable. It helps against premature aging.
Celery came to Russia at the end of the 18th century, during the reign of Catherine II (the Great), but for a long time it was used only as an ornamental plant. Then it began to be grown in drugstores and only then landed in a pot!
The benefits of celery for men and women, for health, love, beauty
The first argument about the benefits of celery: to cavaliers, it returns potency, and to ladies beauty. Its regular consumption makes teeth stronger, hair is more magnificent, more beautiful.
If gastrointestinal diseases or age-related problems are so serious that you don’t care about beauty and love, eat celery. He is able to help even in such situations.
The treatment of colitis, gastritis, peptic ulcer becomes easier, the fight against arthritis, rheumatism, gout - too. But it is better to start eating celery from a young age. After all, diseases are easier to prevent than to expel them from the body when they have taken root there.
In folk medicine, celery is widely used. But we warn that replacing the doctor with self-medication is very, very dangerous. But if you use folk remedies along with performing doctor's prescriptions or for the sake of prevention, you are unlikely to harm yourself.
Infusion (infusion) - an assistant for rheumatism and gout. How to do You need to insist 1 tablespoon of crushed root in 0.5 l of boiled water for 4 hours, wrapping a container or pouring everything into a thermos. Take 2 tablespoons 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.
Why is celery capable of helping people so wonderfully? Because it contains many trace elements: iodine, calcium, zinc, iron, magnesium, phosphorus. There are vitamins vital to us, such as E, K, PP, provitamin A and so on. The kit is complemented by essential oils, organic acids. Do not forget about ballast substances that promote bowel function.
As for the unique aroma, it is provided by sedanolide and sedanic acid anhydride. All together - one of the most appetizing traditional medicine.
What else is celery good for? By the fact that it contains phytohormones that are close in their characteristics to insulin, therefore the vegetable helps diabetics to lower their sugar level.
It will be easier to complete to lose weight, adding celery to food. Its juice calms the nerves.
And celery is a universal restorative.
The use of celery for women to lose weight
If you don’t have special health problems, and most of all you are interested in a slim figure and you want to lose weight, then cook a delicious vegetarian soup. The body spends more calories than it receives on its digestion.
Celery Soup Slimming Recipe
For 500 g of celery and 500 g of white cabbage take 6 medium onions, 3 fresh tomatoes, 2 pods of sweet bell pepper. All this wealth should be washed, finely chopped, poured with water and boiled. Salt and black pepper are placed at the very end of cooking.
There is such a dietary soup without restrictions. You eat - excess fat melts. At the same time, the intake of vitamins does not stop, which is extremely important for maintaining health. Slim women say this is perhaps the most appetizing diet.
The specific taste of celery will help withstand a salt-free or low-salt diet. Season them with first or second courses: cease to pull on salted.
How to eat celery
In many recipes, celery is only referred to as seasoning. It is added to soups, main dishes, less often they are seasoned with salads.
I discovered root celery. I plant him a lot. Do you know that the root crop can be the main thing in kitchen experiments? For example, in the form of a dietary side dish.
This treat is a great substitute for super-calorie fried potatoes.
Fried celery
To roast celery on 400 g root vegetables, you need 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt, spices, lemon juice to taste, and your favorite greens to decorate.
Everything is simple. We clean, cut, sprinkle with lemon juice, let it soak for ten minutes.
Remember: the root is cut like potatoes, and it cooks faster! Do not leave the pan unattended for a long time.
So, we heat the pan, send celery to it, fry until cooked on fire a little above average, add salt, pepper at the end of the frying, put spices if desired.
When serving, sprinkle with herbs.
Great side dish for meat, poultry or vegetables. Some gourmets eat fried celery separately, without any additions at all.
From a culinary point of view, celery root is unique in that during the stew its special aroma does not weaken, but, on the contrary, becomes more interesting. Vegetables go well with meat because it helps to absorb protein. Boiled, it is slightly like potatoes. But the most useful celery is still fresh.
If you combine grated or finely chopped root with grated carrot and apple, you will get a wonderful vitamin salad! Number of products to taste.
Pickled Celery Root
A proven recipe for celery root. Perfectly approaches meat dishes, to dishes from potatoes, mushrooms.
Peel the celery root (1 kg), cut into cubes, rings or straws (as you like), dip in boiling salted water (1 liter of water + 1 table. A spoon of salt + 3 g of citric acid). Take out with a slotted spoon or colander.
Spread celery root pieces in calcined half-liter jars, pour boiling marinade (4 cups of water + 1 cup of tablespoon of 9% vinegar + 1.5 tablespoons of salt + 3 tablespoons of sugar + several peas of black pepper, 1-2 cloves) .
Roll up tin lids. Wrap something warm so that the banks cool down gradually. How to cool - take out. You can store at home.
Celery root storage in winter
Celery root removed. I want to save it in order to enjoy delicious dishes all winter.
I advise you to trim the leaves after harvesting, but not very briefly - you should leave small petioles. And to preserve the juicy roots, they are dipped in a clay solution, the texture resembling thick sour cream, dried, laid in the cellar on the shelves.
There is another way of storage - in the sand. To do this, stick the harvested roots vertically into the box with sand so that the roots are in the sand and the petioles are on top.
Celery, contraindications
Unfortunately, celery is not useful to everyone. Who could he harm?
- In epileptics, it can cause an exacerbation of the condition.
- In people with kidney stones, too.
- Celery is contraindicated in pregnant and lactating women, as it often provokes allergies in babies.
- With varicose veins, thrombophlebitis from celery will also have to be abandoned. Health is more expensive than culinary delights.
- In addition, you need to remember about the possibility of individual intolerance to this product.
It will benefit everyone else. Just remember that excessive love for fresh celery can cause flatulence in some eaters.