What is poppy milk? Dependence of nutritional value on cooking technology. Composition and useful properties, harm from use. What is a drink for, how to prepare and use it, recipes. Interesting facts about the "sleeping" potion. Poppy milk can be applied externally. Application to the skin with measles, chickenpox and rubella allows you to get rid of itching and irritation, eliminate redness. If you use the product as an ingredient in face masks, you can restore smoothness and whiteness of the skin, get rid of traces of inflammation caused by acne, remove bruises and puffiness under the eyes.
If young children are assigned to bed rest to prevent complications after viral infections, as an exception, you can give 1 tablespoon of "sleepy drink". But you should not do it every day - cocktails and smoothies with this ingredient are allowed to be introduced into the diet no earlier than 11 years.
Contraindications and harm of poppy milk
Christians specially prepared vegetable milk for consumption during fasting, and vegetarians do it all the time. In this case, poppy milk can be harmful.
Despite the fact that there are residual alkaloids in it, regular use is often addictive, especially in young children. Therefore, before introducing a drink into the menu on an ongoing basis for a child under 11 years old, it is necessary to consult a pediatrician.
You should not use poppy milk during pregnancy and lactation - it is not known how the product will affect the development of the fetus and infant.
Contraindications for use: renal and hepatic failure, biliary dyskinesia, bronchial asthma and obstruction, pulmonary diseases against the background of heart failure, alcoholism and drug addiction. The drink is not introduced into the diet with high acidity, which causes nausea and periodic vomiting, heartburn - reflux esophagitis can be provoked.
Note! The product is not combined with sedatives and tranquilizers.
How to make poppy seed milk?
Before preparing the drink, the poppy should be soaked for 4-10 hours. In this case, alkaloids are washed out, which can turn the dessert into medicine. If there is no blender, then they get by with an ordinary mortar. Vegans and those who adhere to raw food do not strain the cake and drink milk along with the grains, everyone else prefer to dry the residual product and add it to baked goods.
Poppy milk recipes:
- Simple … The soaked poppy is thrown into cheesecloth folded in several layers, washed and wrung out. Place in a blender, begin to beat, adding the right amount of water. If there is no blender, then the poppy seeds are pounded, and water is added when the contents of the mortar turn into a paste. Then add water and beat with a whisk.
- Poppy milk with honey … They are made according to the recipe already described. For 60 g of poppy seeds add 500 ml of water. Beat poppy seeds for a long time: at least 5 minutes with a blender and 10 minutes with a whisk. After the end of cooking, the mixture is filtered, and honey is added for taste. The nutritional value of the dish is 68.8 kcal.
- Cinnamon drink … In poppy paste, 75 g, pour 250 ml of water and beat until a homogeneous structure is achieved. Add honey - 2 tablespoons to the bowl, cinnamon - a teaspoon. Beat again. Strain the drink through cheesecloth before use.
- Raw food drink … The seeds are removed from the dried dates and the berries are chopped as small as possible. Milk is made according to the usual recipe: the proportions of poppy and water are 75 g and 500 ml. When the liquid turns milky white, add dates and honey to taste in the blender bowl. Do not filter the drink before drinking.
Various spices are used to impart special properties to poppy milk. To keep warm, add dried ginger root powder and cardamom, mint will help to relax. And if you want to cheer up and completely eliminate the sedative effect, add a pepper mixture. Whipped poppy puree with a lot of water has a milky color with an opal tinge. Taking less liquid, you get a creamy shade, with a pearly grayish tint.
Poppy milk is rarely considered a substitute for animal products. Drinks from it are often drunk as a delicacy, and dishes are eaten as desserts. After heat treatment, the sedative properties of the main ingredient do not appear, but the pure use should be transferred to the evening, otherwise you will fall asleep all day.
Poppy milk recipes and drinks
The drink can be used to make jellies and creams for spreading desserts. In this case, it is recommended to add less water to the original product.
Delicious recipes with poppy milk:
- Milk cream … Egg yolks, 2 pieces, grind with 100 g of sugar and add a bag of vanilla sugar. When the yolks have turned white, add 2 tablespoons of flour. Poppy milk, 250 ml, heated to bubbles - no need to boil, pour into the mixture, and only then boil until thickened.
- Jelly … Instant gelatin, 15 g, is poured over with lukewarm water and allowed to swell. Water is taken no more than 50 g, otherwise the dessert will spread. Poppy milk, 300 ml, heat to a boil and pour in gelatin, allow to boil again. Fruits or berries are laid out on the molds - at your choice, poured with a hot mixture. First, cool to room temperature, then put into the refrigerator.
- Healthy dinner … Pour muesli into poppy milk and let it swell well. When the mixture becomes mushy, add pieces of fruit, flaxseed and crushed nuts. Put away in the refrigerator. In the evening they take it out, let it melt and grind it on a blender in a smoothie. With such a dinner, you will sleep well, and you will not gain kilograms.
Poppy milk can be made into a concentrate and then used as needed. The drink is poured into an ice mold and placed in the freezer. All useful properties of the product are preserved.
Delicious drinks with a delicate coffee-nut flavor:
- Chocolate smoothie … Grate banana in mashed potatoes, chocolate, 50 g, chop. Poppy milk, 250 ml, heat, pour chocolate chips into a saucepan and spread banana puree. Bring the mixture to a boil, turn off, lower the blender and achieve a homogeneous structure. You can use cinnamon for flavor.
- Oatmeal smoothie … Pour half a glass of not very thick poppy milk and half a glass of milk yogurt without sweetener into a blender, spread a quarter cup of oatmeal, a teaspoon of honey and 1 banana, previously broken into several parts. Mix for 5-7 minutes. Sprinkle with cinnamon before use.
- Raspberry cocktail … A glass of poppy milk is poured into the bowl of a blender, a third of a glass of raspberries and the same amount of chocolate ice cream or ice cream. Beat up. This portion is for 2-3 people. The "dose" for a healthy adult is 100 g of a thick "sleepy" drink per day.
- Honey banana cocktail … In this recipe, milk is obtained during the preparation process. Pour a handful of bright flower seeds into a blender bowl and beat, gradually adding 100 ml of water. Beat for 3 minutes, spread honey, banana and vanilla. The blender is turned off after another 5 minutes, you do not need to filter.
- Sleepy drink … Season the blender with a glass of a thick drink, a quarter of a glass of fresh cranberry juice, a tablespoon of vanilla yogurt, a crushed Nutella bar - a third of a chocolate bar, a glass of pitted cherries. Can be sweetened with honey before use.
Cocoa with this product has a calming effect, tea and even coffee, which will lose its tonic properties. Just do not boil the drink, just heat it.
Interesting facts about poppy milk
The technology for making a plant product has been passed down from generation to generation since ancient times. It was used as a remedy and a substitute for animal milk for adults and children. At that time, they hardly knew about drug addiction, how it appears, but they tried to eliminate the harmful properties of the drink.
There was no blender yet, so at first the grains were heated, then ground with millstones, adding boiling water. Then the thick liquid was allowed to settle for 24-36 hours, the precipitate was separated and the drink was mixed again until a homogeneous structure. Those who valued poppy precisely for its intoxicating properties used cold water.
In the 16th century, the effect of poppy on the human body was described by the physician and botanist Jacob Theodorus. One of the treatises was called Poppy Seed Juice. It describes harm to the human body and recommendations for use.
Nowadays a rare computer game of a historical type dispenses with the mention of poppy milk. On its basis, they make sleepy drinks, put wizards to sleep, relieve pain from dying from wounds and "humanely" transfer them to the "other world." A real drink only stimulates falling asleep, and it will not help to relieve severe pain.
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You should not increase the efficiency and interrupt unripe opium poppy seeds in a blender. This is dangerous not only for health. The cultivation of opium poppy on a private plot in industrial quantities is illegal, and the punishment - arrest - can significantly worsen living conditions.
