Healthy food - a recipe for watercress salad

Cress-salad is a vegetable from the cabbage family, having the appearance of original grass. It is believed that the birthplace of this plant is the Middle East, but as a spice and medicine it was used even in Ancient Greece, Egypt and Rome. Today, watercress salad is a welcome guest on the tables of both Europeans and Asians, it is popular in Africa, and in America, and even in Australia. In dishes, you can use this vegetable in different ways. In each part of the world the most relevant is its recipe. Cress-salad may be required more or less, but all such dishes are equally useful and appetizing.

Strange, but in itself this vegetable has a not very pleasant taste. For many, it is bitter and sharp, like radish or horseradish. However, in combination with other products, watercress not only enhances and emphasizes their taste, but also opens in a completely new way. In addition, this plant tastes and juicier dishes of eggs, meat and fish, it is well combined with potatoes, cottage cheese, first courses, is a part of many snacks, sauces and gravies.

However, the recipe for watercress is considered the most popular and simple way of using this herb. There are a lot of options. The composition of the simplest is 200 grams of watercress and 100 grams of green onions. The grass needs to be cut not too finely, salt and season with sunflower or olive oil. Very simple, but how useful for the body! If you regularly use this recipe for watercress, you can not only lose weight (if there is food instead of mayonnaise snacks), but also significantly improve health. By the way, there are only 32 calories in 100 grams of this dish!

As shown by numerous scientific studies, this vegetable is just a storehouse of vitamins! In addition, it contributes to the proper functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, combats insomnia, has the ability to lower blood pressure, fight against microbes and inflammations. Also cress-salad gives wound healing, expectorant, diuretic and choleretic effect. And recently scientists have started talking about the amazing property of this herb to fight with cancer.

But back to nutrition. Very tasty and the next recipe for watercress. For him, besides 200 grams of the vegetable itself, we need 100 grams of carrots and 50 grams of pumpkin seeds, a teaspoon of honey, half a lemon juice and about 30 grams of olive oil, which, however, can be replaced by any vegetable. To start to prepare this salad it is necessary with refueling. To do this, mix the lemon juice with butter, add to this mixture finely chopped salad and carrots, chopped on a grater. Pumpkin seeds are pre-fried in a frying pan with a little oil, then mixed with honey. In this form they decorate the salad from above. This option is not only delicious, but also hearty (due to sunflower seeds, honey and butter).

In principle, it is not so important as eating a watercress, because it is equally useful in any combination and in itself. With this vegetable you can fantasize indefinitely, mixing it with any useful products. Cress salad, the recipes of which are available in a wide variety, is highly appreciated by many gourmets. Variants of its use are a matter of taste. However, we must remember that, unfortunately, the love of watercress for some is prohibited. It can not be eaten by people with gastritis, colitis and duodenitis.