What are artichokes, what do they look like, their benefits and harm, cooking recipes? How to cook delicious snacks from artichoke bottoms, pizza, salad pie and sauce?

• Due to the content in the artichoke inulin( polysaccharide, which in the body is broken down to fructose), it is useful in diabetes mellitus
• The potassium and sodium content in the plant makes it useful for people with high acidity of the gastricjuice. In addition, potassium helps to cope with swelling
• The use of artichoke is manifested in lowering cholesterol in the body
• It is worth noting also the anti-inflammatory and choleretic effect of artichoke
• Toning action
• Help with urolithiasis
• Antioxidant
• Good prophylaxis against catarrhal and viral diseases
• Useful foranemia due to iron content
• Tsinarin in artichoke contributes to improvement of cerebral circulation

Contraindications

• Ulcer
• Gastritis
• Reduced acidity of gastric juice
• Lowered blood pressure
• Hepatic failure
• Pregnancy
• Lactation
• Age to 12 years
• Gallstone disease

Artichokes: benefits and contraindications

What vitamins contain artichoke?

Water is the main substance in artichoke. Its content in artichoke reaches 85%.The plant, in addition to the high content of proteins and fiber, is rich in vitamins of different groups:

• Group B - thiamine - riboflavin, niacin, etc.
• Vitamin C - ascorbic acid
• Vitamin E - tocopherol
• Vitamin K

What vitamins are contained in artichoke. Benefits of artichokes

Useful properties of artichoke tea

Interesting: In Vietnam, drinking tea from dried artichokes is widespread.

• Add to your regular tea 1 / 4ch.artichoke - with increased acidity or inflammatory processes of organs
• has a laxative effect.
• Has a mild diuretic effect. The peculiarity of artichoke tea is that it does not remove potassium and sodium from the body, but is their source, unlike other diuretics.
• Promotes normalization and metabolism improvement
• Prevents infection of internal organs
• Reduces damage from alcohol intoxication
• Helps reduce the levelblood sugar
• Good antioxidant
• Has anti-cancer effect

Artichoke tea you can buy in bags or buy in the form of dry grass. Use on a glass of boiling water 1 sachet or 1.5 tbsp.dry leaves. Let the tea brew for 5-7 minutes and drink before eating. If you use tea for preventive purposes or for general health, drink it once a day, with a medicinal plant - 3 times a day before meals.

To brighten a bitter taste, a spoonful of honey will help.

Artichoke tea

How to eat artichokes, with what?

Artichokes appreciate the versatility of taste, as they are combined with any products. There are no problems to cook in preparing artichokes.

You can add this plant to salads, bake a pie, combine with meat and fish as a garnish. You can safely experiment, creating your own unique recipes.

Feature artichokes is that they can be eaten at any stage of maturity. However, cook them in different ways: for example, use young artichokes in raw form, preserve inflorescences of an average degree of maturity, or marinate, and mature ones can be boiled or put out.

For example, you can even prepare artichokes as a separate dish:

• You will need the young artichokes, butter, garlic, salt and pepper
• Rinse the artichokes with running water, remove the top leaves
• Slice the oil between the leaves of the inflorescence
• Add betweenleaves garlic, salt and pepper
• Cook for a couple of 15-20 minutes

Important: Do not use mature artichokes that have already been opened for cooking - they acquire a strong bad taste, which even interruptsfirst taste of the dish.

Mature open artichokes can not be eaten

Artichoke bottoms: snacks

Before you start preparing artichokes, clean them.

• Cut off the foot
• Remove the top leaves
• Cut good leaves on top of the finger
• Rinse under running water or in water with the juice of one lemon
• If you cook artichokes - throw them into boiling water, pre-salt it and add lemon juice. Check if the
• is ready for use. If you use only the bottom of the artichoke - Scrape it with a teaspoon to remove the fluff.

Important: Peel the artichokes in water with lemon juice or sprinkle slices with lemon juice, otherwise the inflorescence will darken.

How to clean artichoke

Stuffed bottoms

• You will need: 8 mature artichokes, 500g minced meat, 1 onion, 2 eggs, 2 cups of breadcrumbs, spices - salt, black pepper, red pepper, cumin, greens - dill or parsley
  For sauce: 2 onions, garlic, celery, 2 carrots, sweet pepper, 300ml of water, salt, pepper, turmeric, 1 t.l. starch, bay leaf, sweet pepper, peas.
  For frying: olive oil, eggs and flour
• Prepare artichoke bottoms and put in water with lemon, chop the onions
• Make the sauce: chop the onions finely, rub garlic on a small grater, slice the carrots with sticks or cubes, celery and sweet pepper slice asit is possible more finely.
  Fry the onions a little, add garlic and vegetables, turmeric for a yellowish hue and pour in water. Slightly put out and add salt, black pepper, sweet pepper, bay leaf. At the end, thicken everything with the help of starch
• Make mincemeat, best beef. Pass the meat along with the onions through the meat grinder, add the egg, spices and biscuits
• Fill the bottom with minced meat until the shape of the ball is obtained
• Dip the artichokes into the egg and into the flour and lay them in a frying pan with a large amount of heated olive oil( deep-fried)
• Fry the bottoms and add them to the panand cook in sauce. Put in the oven for 40 minutes at 160 °
• Finished yul.da can be sprinkled with dill or parsley

Artichokes baked with eggs

• You will need: 2 artichokes, 2 eggs, carrots, turnips, bean pods, asparagus( 150 grams of vegetables total), greenCanned peas, 125g milk sauce, 8g hard cheese, 15g butter
• Cut the turnips and carrots and lightly fry
• Cut the asparagus and beans into the pre-salt water
• Mix the prepared vegetables with green peas
• Season the vegetable mixture with milksauce
• Boil artichoke bottoms, stuff with vegetable mix
• Top with boiled soft-boiled eggs
• Rub hard cheese, pour with milk sauce
• Bake until ready

Artichoke buns baked with eggs

Artichoke biscuit

Basically, for pies you need marinated artichokes. Get them infinished form or do it yourself.

• You will need( for 3 servings): 4 large artichokes, 2 lemons, 2 tbsp.balsamic vinegar, garlic clove, olive oil, salt, black pepper( preferably freshly ground), a couple of sprigs of parsley
• Brush artichokes and boil in acidified lemon juice for 30-40 minutes, until soft
• Cut artichokes in half
• Prepare a dressing from the remaining ingredients
• Season the artichoke and let it stand in the refrigerator 2-3 hours

How to pickle artichokes

Pie with cherry tomatoes and feta

• You will need: for a breeze test - 150 g of flour, 75 g of low-fat yogurt, 2 tbsp.margarine, 1 tea.salt.
  For pie - 150g of pickled artichokes, 200ml of cream, 150g of feta, 4 eggs, 20 cherry tomatoes, salt, pepper
• Start the preparation of the pie with the preparation of the dough. Mix the salt and flour
• Add the margarine and yogurt, knead well
• Remove the dough into the fridge for 1-1.5 hours
• Cut the artichokes into 4 pieces
• Crumble the feta
• Tomatoes cut in half
• Whisk the eggs with cream
• Add the artichokes, tomatoes and feta, salt, pepper
• Put the dough in the mold, top lay the mixture
• Bake in the oven for 25 minutes at 200 °

Cake with artichokes and cherry tomatoes

Cake with artichokes and feta

• You will need: 540g puff pastry, 80ml cream, 120g feta, 1 egg, 2t.l.olive oil, salt, pepper, wheat flour
• Cut artichokes
• Crumble feta
• Mix feta and cream in the blender, add salt and pepper to taste
• Roll out the dough and transfer it to baking paper
• Top spread out the stuffing, top artichokes
• Whisk the egg andgrease the dough around the edges of
• Bake 15 minutes at 220 °, then 20-25 minutes at 190 °

Cake with artichokes and feta

Cake with artichokes and ham

• You will need: 1 shallot and 1 red onion, 110 g butter, 800 gmarinated artichokes,480g of ham, 240g of hard cheese, 3 chicken eggs, 3 tbsp.wheat flour, 120ml cream, 60g parmesan, 2 puff pastry, salt, black pepper and hot pepper red
• Cut onion and fry in butter
• Cut artichokes and ham into cubes
• Put the onion and butter in a large bowl and add the flour
• 2 eggs whiskand pour into a bowl to the onion and flour
• Scrunch hard cheese and Parmesan on a large grater, pour into a bowl
• Add pepper black, pepper red and salt
• Pour artichokes and ham
• Pour into the total mass of cream and mix thoroughly
• One layer of doughcover with a second layer of
• Protect the edges
• Whip one egg and oil the surface
• Bake 45 minutes at 175 °

Artichoke and ham pie

Pizza with artichokes

Pizza with leek and bacon

• You will need: 6pieces of bacon, 200g pickled artichokes, 1 leek, 30ml olive oil, 300g pizza dough, 50g parmesan cheese, salt, black pepper, parsley
• Fry the bacon in a dry frying pan
• Fry onion
• Put the dough on a baking sheet
• Top putonions and chopped artichokes, salt and pepper
• Bake 10-15 minutes
• At the end sprinkle with grated parmesan and lay the chopped bacon
• You can decorate with greens or onions

Pizza with artichokes

Salads with artichokes

There are many recipes for salads from artichokes. some prefer simple salads, in which the taste of the plant is clearly felt. Others prefer culinary multicomponent masterpieces of different cuisines of the world.

Vegetable salad

• You will need artichokes, celery, tomatoes, apples, lemon juice, vegetable oil, salt, pepper
• Boil the artichoke cubes and cut into cubes
• Cut the celery root with strips
• Tomatoes beat with boiling water, remove the peel( preferably seeds), cut
• Cut the apple
• Mix the ingredients, add a little lemon juice, spices
• Season with vegetable oil

Salad with egg

• You will need artichokes, eggs, mayonnaise
• Boil the artichoke leaves until readycut
• Cook hard-boiled eggs, cut
• Mix artichokes with eggs and season with mayonnaise
• You can add a little garlic

Greek salad from artichokes

• You will need 8 artichokes, 1 lemon juice, 2 tomatoes, garlic, seasonings( salt, pepper), 1h.l.olive oil, greens - if desired
• Peel and cut artichokes
• Peel the tomatoes with boiling water, peel and remove the seeds, cut
• Mix the vegetables
• Garlic, mix with spices, herbs, lemon juice and olive oil.
• Season the mixture with vegetables and keep inrefrigerator 1-1.5 hours

Salad with artichokes

Artichoke sauce

• You will need: 4 large artichokes, 1 lemon, 50ml of dry white wine, 50ml of white wine vinegar, 6 anchovy fillets in oil, 1t.l.capers in salt, olive oil, spices
• Clean artichokes
• Add lemon juice, wine, salt, vinegar
• in this cold water. In this water, artichokes cook for 15-20 minutes.
• Cooked artichokes turn over and dry for 24 hours.
• Cut small artichokes, mix withcapers, anchovies, olive oil
• Add pepper
• Grind the resulting mass with a blender until it is puree
• Store in the refrigerator in a tightly closed container

Important: The sauce should be oily, do not be afraid to add oil if notbhodimosti.

Artichoke sauce

Artichoke, caloric content

Artichokes are famous for their medicinal properties, while being a dietary product.

• Low calorie - useful for obesity. Nutritional value per 100g: proteins - 4g, carbohydrates - 70g. Energy value( caloric content) per 100g: 30Kcal

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