Useful properties and methods of cooking slime onions. Vitamins, trace elements and calorie content of the product. Harm and contraindications for use.
Harm and contraindications to the use of slime onions
There are very few contraindications to slime onions, so the harm and benefits of this type of onion are incomparable.
You need to use it with caution in such cases:
- Gout … The purine content of glandular onions exceeds 60 grams per 100 grams of the plant, therefore, with such a disease, it is necessary to reduce the consumed volume of the plant to a minimum.
- Pregnancy … High vitamin A content can harm a child's development.
- Lactation … During breastfeeding, slime must be heat treated and eaten in small portions, observing the baby's reactions. If a rash or redness appears, then for at least six months it is necessary to exclude the product from the diet.
Absolute contraindications to the use of slime onions:
- Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in the acute stage … With such a diagnosis, it is necessary to completely exclude mangyr from the diet until the period of remission. And even in this situation, it must be heat treated, preferably without using a large amount of vegetable oil.
- Individual intolerance … If you notice a rash, reddening of the skin, an unreasonable runny nose and shortness of breath, immediately flush the stomach and see a doctor.
Note! Slime onions are often found in the wild, but do not rush to eat them. Daffodil leaves are visually very similar to this type of onion. You can distinguish them by their smell, but do not risk it, it is better to wait for flowering, then you can accurately determine that this is really a slime.
Slime Onion Recipes
Drooping onions, in comparison with ordinary batun, have a dense structure and keep their shape well when fried. It is extremely popular when marinating kebabs: when cutting, a large amount of juice is released, which evenly envelops the pieces of meat, allowing them to marinate and soak more evenly.
After freezing, this type of onion practically does not lose its useful properties, so you can safely harvest it for future use. In pickles, it goes well with all vegetables, adding a soft "spice", does not lose its shape and crunches pleasantly. You can also find recipes for pickled slime onions that differ little from cooking wild garlic. In dishes mangyr adds not only onion, but also garlic smell.
Below we take a look at a few healthy and delicious recipes with slime onions:
- Rice with shrimps … Cook 250 grams of brown rice until cooked in salted water. Peel the shrimps (500 grams), fry in a pan until golden brown, transfer to a colander. Peel and peel large tangerines (2 pieces), cut the pulp into medium pieces. Finely chop a bunch of slime onions, rinse 100 grams of white raisins. Fry them in a skillet for 2 minutes. Add rice and shrimps to them, cook for 4 minutes over medium heat. Put mandarin pulp to the finished dish. As a sauce, you can use 200 grams of natural yogurt with lemon juice, garlic and herbs.
- Spicy pork with potatoes … A bunch of Siberian onions, allspice, thyme, 3 cloves of garlic and dried ginger are chopped into a paste in a blender. Add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt and stir. Grate it with 2 kilograms of pork loin, leave to soak for 1.5 hours at room temperature. Peel potatoes (1 kg) and onions (300 grams), cut into medium slices. Put the pork in a baking dish, cook in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for an hour, put the potatoes and onions with the pork, grease with oil, add salt, cook for another 40 minutes.
- Chinese buns … Dissolve 1 teaspoon of warm yeast in half a glass of warm water. After the bubbles appear (after 10 minutes), sift 200 grams of flour, mix with 1 teaspoon of salt, make a depression, pour the yeast into it. Knead the dough with olive oil, it should not stick to your hands. Cut a bunch of slime onions into medium slices. Roll out the dough into a thin layer, grease with olive oil, salt and pepper (you can add a little dry paprika). Put the onion on top, roll the dough into a roll. Cut the roll into equal parts 1-2 centimeters wide. We lightly press each piece. Put the buns in a double boiler, cook for 20-25 minutes. Serve with sour cream (you can squeeze a clove of garlic into it and pepper).
- Casserole … Homemade cottage cheese (500 grams), rub through a sieve into a paste. Grate 200 grams of cheese on a fine mesh grater. Finely chop a bunch of mangyr, 2 cloves of garlic and cilantro greens, mix with cottage cheese and cheese. Prepare 4 eggs, separate the whites from the yolks, immediately add the yolks to the curd mass, mixing with dry paprika and ground black pepper. Beat the whites with salt until an airy mass, add in parts to the cottage cheese. Bake in small, oiled tins at 200 degrees until the top is browned (15-20 minutes).
- Salty cake … Fry 4 thin omelets with herbs and grated cheese to taste. Put on a plate, let cool slightly. For the first layer, fry 80 grams of onions and 200 grams of mushrooms, add salt and pepper. For the second layer, cut red bell pepper (200 grams) into thin strips. On the third layer, fry bunches of spinach, sorrel and slime onions. Lay out the omelet and layer in layers, you can combine with soft melted cheese or tomato sauce. Serve warm.
Interesting Slime Onion Facts
In addition to being used for food, drooping onions are used as a decorative element in the garden. Flowers that are visually indistinguishable from the flowering of the batun onion are a good honey plant.
Siberian onions are rich in nutrients than onions or wild garlic. However, mangyr bulbs can also be eaten, but juicy and dense young leaves are highly prized in cooking.
In the process of growing, the leaves of the glandular onion first bend to the ground, but closer to flowering they begin to form a slightly pointed bush. At the very beginning, we talked about the unpretentiousness of this plant to the soil, but there are some difficulties in growing: regular and abundant watering is needed, otherwise the leaves will be dry and bitter, or even completely wither.
In folk medicine, slug-onion is known not only in Russia, but also abroad. So, in Tibet, broth and crushed leaves are used to make pain relievers, as well as anti-inflammatory ointments.
How to cook slime onions - watch the video:
[media = https://www.youtube.com/watch? v = vuAv3opuGoE] Among the housewives of the CIS countries, slug onion is absolutely undeservedly unpopular: with all its useful properties and ease of preparation, it is simply necessary to include it in home cooking.
