Each housewife often asks the question what to cook. Salads have entered our life and have been favorites for quite some time, but often in families they are prepared according to traditional recipes, which are already a little boring. Than to please relatives, how to surprise with the culinary abilities? I am sure that such questions have often occurred to women. We will open one secret for you, we will teach you how to prepare a salad from a plantain. This delicious dish will surprise and please everyone, and as a bonus - will be of great benefit to the body.
Plantain - grass with great possibilities
You can ask why there is a weed, what is good in it, except that you can attach a knee to a sick knee? And here not. Such an accessible, simple and completely unique for many weed, is unique in its composition, which is of benefit to us. Grass can be used quite extensively in cooking - casseroles, soups, snacks, marinades and so on. Well, we will talk about the plantain salad, and what is its advantage:
- plant is rich in vitamins. Especially much in the plantain vitamin C, it is recommended by doctors during seasonal vitamin deficiencies, colds;
- herb contains flavonoids, pectins, phytoncides, minerals, antioxidants, acids, amino acids, each component is necessary for our health and replenishes the deficit;
- helps with gastrointestinal diseases;
- eliminates edema, has a diuretic effect, fights against kidney stones;
- relieves inflammation, fights against pathogenic flora, heals wounds;
- stimulates immunity, increases appetite, can help in the fight against oncology;
- perfectly calms and has a beneficial effect on the nervous system;
- helps to normalize blood pressure and lower cholesterol.
This is what you can get from salad from plantain, besides it will not be all, because you cook a dish not from one component, which means that a complex of useful substances will enter the body, making it healthy.
Important! Plantain can not be eaten by those who suffer from gastritis with high acidity and those people who have thick blood, there are risks of blood clots.
Salad from plantain: these recipes you did not know exactly
"Vitamin"
This salad is just a storehouse of good, because it is prepared from natural products.
We will need:
- plantain - leaves without stems - about 120-130 grams;
- medium sized onion head;
- nettle - leaves - about 50 grams;
- one egg;
- horseradish - a piece in 50 grams;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- vinegar - if desired;
- sour cream or mayonnaise - for refueling.
Cooking a delicious salad.
Cook the egg. While it is brewed, we wash our greens, namely plantain and burning nettle, after which we scald in boiling water for one minute. Let's drain off the water, dry it on a towel, shred the grass. We cut the peeled onions in half rings, we cool the egg and cut it too finely. Horseradish three on grater, we put all the cup, salt, pepper, you can pour a little apple cider vinegar. After that, season with sour cream.
"Vegetable"
This is quite a traditional salad with tomatoes and cucumbers, but still not quite typical.
We will need:
- tomatoes - 3-4 pieces;
- onion - a green bunch;Dill and parsley
- - on small bundles;
- plantain - 50 grams;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - olive or sunflower oil - for refueling;
- cucumbers - 3-4 small or two large;
- two eggs;
- lettuce leaves.
Cooking a delicious salad.
All the vegetables and herbs are well mine. Then put the leaves of the lettuce on the bottom of the cup. In a separate bowl, mix sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, chopped greens, plantain and eggs. We shift the mass onto lettuce leaves, salt and pour with butter dressing. From above decorate with a branch of a lesson or parsley our salad from a plantain.
Tip! If you have purchased cucumbers, it is better to remove skins from them with vegetable cleaning. It is believed that it is in this part that harmful additives can be concentrated that were used during the cultivation of the culture.
"For five minutes"
You can cook this snack very quickly, but there will be infinitely many benefits to your health.
We will need:
- radish - 3-4 pieces;
- sorrel - 100 grams;
- greens - to taste: dill, parsley, arugula, that is in the country;
- spinach and plantain - each of 100-120 grams;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- sour cream - for refueling.
Cooking a delicious salad.
It's simple - my radish and all the greens, the first mode in circles, after which we cut them into halves, shred all the greens, fill with sour cream, pepper and salt. You can pour a little lemon juice, add finely chopped garlic.
"Meat"
Good for use, but not every man likes to eat only greens and vegetables, many want meat, which is more savory and more satisfying. Please, this salad will be with a plantain and chicken, you can replace it with beef or sausages.
We will need:
- plantain - leaves without stems - 150 grams;
- egg;
- piece of horseradish;
- sour cream or mayonnaise - for refueling;
- slightly sharp sauce;
- greens - parsley, dill, onions - small bundles;
- meat - chicken, beef or ham, at your discretion - 100 grams;
- salt, spices - to taste. We would recommend with meat to serve the zir.
Cooking a delicious salad.
Meat cook or fry, cut into strips. Here we add all the greens, previously washed and chopped. We crumble into our salad with plantain egg, three piece of horseradish. Mix sour cream and hot sauce, season it with spices, pour our salad, mix well, put salt and pepper to taste.
Tip! To make your salad even tastier, you can marinate meat, and then cook. If you cook the breast, then add laurel leaf and pepper with peas, salt immediately.
«For gourmets»
If you do not surprise with the usual greens, horseradish or breast, then make a plantain salad with pumpkin. The latter is often undeservedly not appreciated by the hostesses, which is a mistake. Pumpkin is a source of useful substances, many culinary dishes and desserts can be prepared from it.
We will need:
- plantain - leaves young without stems - 70 grams;
- vegetable oil - sunflower or olive oil - for refueling;
- greens;
- pumpkin - a piece in 50 grams;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Cooking a delicious salad.
First we make a pumpkin. Raw a piece of vegetable cut from the skin, and then remove the seeds. Next, rub the pumpkin on the grater to get three tablespoons. You can make a paste - skip the vegetable through a meat grinder, you can also add seeds here, which have long been known for their ability to kill pathogenic flora. Plantain, shred, mixed with pumpkin, also cut greens, fill our salad. This dish can be served with meat and fish.
How do you like these unusual salad from plantain? It's simple, but, you see, it's original, and, most importantly, useful. Bon Appetit!