What is whey, how can it be prepared? The composition and calorie content of a fermented milk drink, useful and harmful properties. Recipes and interesting facts. It is advisable for women to know how the serum is useful. Introduction to the diet helps prevent the development of thrush (candidiasis). And external use - for douching the vagina - is practiced to normalize microflora and treat vulvovaginitis. With regular use, it allows you to lose weight.
Homemade serum is most useful. It can be introduced as an ingredient in cosmetics - face and hair masks. Such an additive eliminates pigmentation, softens the skin and saturates with useful substances, stimulates the work of hair follicles, relieves acne and dandruff.
For medicinal purposes, up to 1 glass of the drink is drunk a day. Can be divided into several tricks. If the goal is to lose weight, drink 30 minutes before meals, get better after, in order to improve the absorption of nutrients.
Contraindications and harm of serum
There are very few contraindications for using the product.
Serum can harm:
- With lactase deficiency - casein intolerance;
- With a tendency to diarrhea - the product has a pronounced laxative effect.
You should not introduce a fermented milk drink into the diet with exacerbation of gastritis and peptic ulcer disease against the background of increased acidity, pancreatitis and gallstone disease. In other cases, if the recommended dose is not exceeded - 1-2 glasses per day, there will be no deterioration.
It is not recommended to store the fermented milk drink longer than 4 days, even in the refrigerator. The acidified product causes strong fermentation, increased production of intestinal gases, nausea and diarrhea.
Whey Food and Drink Recipes
On the basis of whey, they knead the dough, prepare hot and cold dishes, make drinks for weight loss. The dough of dumplings and dumplings cooked in a fermented milk drink is much softer than those cooked in water.
Delicious Whey Recipes:
- Summer okroshka … Slicing for a refreshing soup: fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, boiled eggs and potatoes, smoked sausage or chicken, herbs - onions, parsley and dill. All are mixed in arbitrary quantities, poured with whey, seasoned with sour cream.
- Cheesebushka … Cook 2-3 diced potatoes, 1 carrot - into strips, half a whole onion. They take enough water to cover the vegetables. Season with peas of various peppers to taste and bay leaves. When 2-3 minutes remain until the potatoes are ready, the cooked half of the onion is removed, and the slicing of the second half is added. A little ready-made vegetable broth is poured, 2-3 tablespoons of corn flour are diluted in it. Put the pan on the fire again, add 2-3 cloves of crushed garlic, a piece of butter - 20 g, dilute with whey so that the thick soup becomes liquid, add salt, pepper, bring to a boil and turn it off. Before serving, sprinkle with chopped herbs - cilantro and dill, season with sour cream. Salting can be done when preparing broth, but at that stage it is impossible to accurately assess the taste. More salt is required, and this is harmful.
- Vareniki … They set the liver to cook, 600 g, for the filling, add suneli hops for the taste. Knead the dough: 200 g of whey, 3-3, 5 cups of wheat flour, salt, a little baking soda. The dough should be soft and elastic. The boiled liver is passed through a meat grinder with onions, the minced meat is salted, pepper, mixed. The dough is rolled out, mugs are cut out with a glass - future dumplings. Put the filling in the middle of each, pinch the edges tightly. They put a pot of whey to boil, pouring a little vegetable oil into it and adding bay leaves. Dumplings are carefully lowered into a bowl of boiling liquid. As soon as they come up, boil for 5 minutes, and then carefully take out with a slotted spoon.
- Fluffy pancakes … Beat the egg with 4 tablespoons of sugar until foamy, pour in 2 cups of whey, add a quarter teaspoon of soda, slaked with lemon juice, add wheat flour. You need to get a batter of a uniform structure. The dough is allowed to stand warm to allow bubbles to appear. Baked in sunflower oil, turning over during cooking. Eaten with sour cream, honey or jam.
- Ricotta cheese … The thick whey is boiled with apple cider vinegar. Proportions: 1 liter of whey and 1 tablespoon of vinegar. Bring to a boil, turn off, let stand under the lid for 2 hours. Strain through cheesecloth. The curd curd is squeezed out and the cheese is formed.
- Mousse … Gelatin, a tablespoon, is soaked in cold water for 30 minutes. 100 g of confiture is heated to the first bubbles and 200 g of whey is diluted, vanillin is poured in, stir well. Poured into molds and placed on the refrigerator shelf.
Drink recipes:
- Kvass … 3 tablespoons of dried celandine flowers are wrapped in cheesecloth and placed on the bottom of a glass jar. Pour 3 liters of fermented milk drink, add a teaspoon of sour cream and a glass of sugar, leave to infuse for 2 weeks in a dark place, covering the neck with gauze in several layers. The mold is removed, the gauze is changed. After the completion of fermentation, filter.
- Cocktail with fruit … The bowl of the blender is filled with a glass of whey, 50 g of any berries or pieces of fruit, a tablespoon of honey. Beat up. Ice cubes are added to cool.
You can do without berries. To improve the taste, syrup, sugar and even ice cream are added to the whey.
Interesting facts about whey
Milk whey is a by-product in the production of cottage cheese, cheeses, fermented milk drinks. The cloudy liquid found application first in cosmetology, then in medicine, and more recently in dietetics.
In the 18th century, the product was called the elixir of youth. The patients were hospitalized in special sanatoriums, where it was used as the main pharmaceutical agent orally and externally. Patients were treated for tuberculosis, bronchial asthma, peptic ulcer, biliary dyskinesia, adnexitis. The minimum daily dosage was 3-4 liters of beverage. The therapeutic scheme included douching, baths, enemas, nasopharyngeal lavage.
Modern recipes based on homemade whey:
- For gout and arthritis. If you drink 500 ml of the drink per day in equal portions, you can prevent an exacerbation of the disease. Preventive course - 2 weeks.
- From varicose veins. Pour 6 chopped fresh mint leaves with a glass of warm whey, leave to infuse for half an hour, covering with a lid. Take 100 ml 30 minutes before each meal for 21 days.
- From intoxication with ARVI and influenza. In a glass of drink, dilute 1, 5 tablespoons of honey, drink 2-2, 5 glasses a day.
The fermented milk product is used as an ingredient for cosmetics as follows:
- To make hair manageable, it is enough to replace shampoo with serum.
- To restore the quality of nails, you need to make a bath of warmed serum and jojoba oil.
- Serum is prepared for acne at home, 4 tablespoons of lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of milk are added to 200 ml of liquid. Store the lotion in the refrigerator.
- From age-related changes, the fermented milk product is frozen in molds. A mask is made - 2 tablespoons of the drink and 3 tablespoons of pea flour. Apply to cleansed skin for 20 minutes, rinse with warm water and rub your face with ice cubes.
The drink can be used for wraps. This will help to soften the skin and get rid of cellulite.
These are not all the useful qualities of a fermented milk product. The rest of the drink can be used to feed domestic plants.
How to make whey - watch the video:
Whey retains all the useful properties of the raw material and can be used in any economic area.
