The composition and calorie content of vegetable coriander. Benefits, alleged harm and contraindications. Cooking recipes. Important! Vegetable coriander is useful for lactating women. Consumption of greens enhances lactation. Also, the plant should be used by men, in particular with prostatitis and impotence.
Contraindications and harm of cilantro
Despite the huge number of useful properties, vegetable coriander will not benefit all people. When consuming it, it is always important to observe the measure.
Who should refuse to include these greens in the diet:
- Pregnant and lactating women … Consuming coriander vegetable can cause premature birth and also lead to lactation problems.
- Patients suffering from thrombophlebitis, gastritis, high acidity of gastric juice, peptic ulcer … For these diseases, a special diet is recommended, and greens are not included in it.
- People with individual intolerance … Coriander is a useful plant, but it can cause allergies in some cases.
Important to remember! It is not recommended to abuse vegetable coriander. It is safe to eat no more than 30-35 grams of greens a day, otherwise we can get hearing impairment, memory impairment and insomnia.
Recipes with vegetable coriander
Vegetable coriander has an unusual taste and aroma, which makes it popular in many cuisines of the world. It is an irreplaceable component of soups, meat and fish dishes, various salads and sauces.
When serving, not only the taste is important, but also the appearance of the dishes. This is where you can use coriander greens to decorate salads and sandwiches.
Recipes with delicious vegetable coriander:
- Khachapuri lazy with cheese and coriander … First, rub coarsely 400 g of hard cheese and put it in a deep bowl. Pour 200 ml of kefir or sour cream on top, break 2 eggs. Then add 4 tablespoons of flour and make a not very thick dough. Heat 40 g of butter in a frying pan, spread out the dough, making a flat cake from it, sprinkle it with 4 tablespoons of chopped coriander greens. It is better to eat our dish hot.
- Bage sauce … Peel and chop 15 g of garlic with a knife. We wash with 10 g of hot pepper and cut it finely. We wash the vegetable coriander and chop it. In a mortar, grind 5 g of ground coriander, saffron to taste, 2.5 g of salt, hot pepper, coriander greens and garlic. We pass 70 g of walnuts through a meat grinder. We mix all the ingredients, add 5 ml of lemon juice. The sauce should be as thick as sour cream. It is served with meat, vegetables and fish.
- Adjika green … We wash with 500 g of hot peppers, remove the seeds. Peel 1 clove of garlic. We pass these products through a meat grinder. We wash 250 g of vegetable coriander greens, parsley, celery under running water, and then grind well. Add to the ground ingredients, also add 1 tablespoon of ground coriander and salt to taste. We put our adjika in a jar and store in the refrigerator.
- Korean beetroot … First you need to rinse with 1 kg of red beets. Then boil it for 20 minutes and leave to cool for a while. After that, add the following components: 1 teaspoon of ground hot pepper, ground black pepper and paprika; 6 minced garlic cloves 20 g of vegetable coriander greens; 1, 5 tablespoon of white wine vinegar and apple cider vinegar; 1 tablespoon sugar and 3 tablespoons olive oil.
- Squid and tomato salad … Cook 3 eggs. And in another bowl, bring 1 liter of water to a boil, add 1 lavrushka, salt and ground black pepper to taste. We wash 3 squid and cook for no more than 1 minute. Let them cool and cut into small strips. We clean the eggs and rub them on a coarse grater. In this way, grind 200 g of hard cheese. Cut 3 tomatoes into large cubes. Wash the parsley and vegetable coriander and cut into large pieces. Mix all the components of the salad and season with 200 g of mayonnaise. This dish will go well with a simple family dinner and a festive table. It will especially delight lovers of seafood.
- Simple soup - jail … First of all, with 250 g of black bread, cut off the crust and cut it into pieces. Then dry them in the oven at medium temperature for 10 minutes. We wash with 1, 5 cloves of garlic, peel and grind it. We rub each slice of bread with it, i.e. already crackers. After that, cut the bread into small pieces, put it on a plate. We wash the coriander greens (10 g), grind it and add to the breadcrumbs. Peel half of the onion, chop it finely and add it to our ingredients. You can also add a bunch of green onions. Pour in 0.5 liters of kvass, salt to taste. Serving to the table. Bon Appetit!
- Shakshuka - Jewish scrambled eggs … Peel 1 onion, cut into half rings and fry in olive oil (30 g) for 10 minutes. In the process of browning, you need to add some water six times. The mass should turn out to be creamy. Rinse 2 tomatoes, rinse with boiling water, remove the skin, cut the pulp into cubes and send to the pan. There you should also add diced peppers: 1 sweet and 0.5 hot pods. And simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Add salt and sugar to taste. Don't forget about greenery. You will need 30 g of parsley and half a bunch of vegetable coriander. Grind and add to our mass. It turned out like this from vegetables jam. Now carefully break 3 eggs. Salt only protein to taste, but salt forms unwanted spots on the yolk. Cook the fried eggs over low heat, without covering the pan with a lid.
Interesting facts about Arabian parsley
The vegetable coriander has been known to mankind for about 5000 years. In 1550 BC. the properties of this plant have already been described in the Iberian papyrus. The Old Testament, manuscripts, scrolls during the excavation of tombs of Ancient Egypt, the scrolls of the sages of Ancient China - this is not the whole list of sources that mentioned the healing effects on the body of this herb. Fossilized coriander seeds were found by paleobotanists in the tombs of the 21st dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs. Avicenna was sure that this greenery prolongs human life. The priests used coriander for ritual purposes during sacrifices to the gods. It was also viewed as a love potion.
Vegetable coriander was brought to Europe by the Romans. It appeared in Great Britain after the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC, where it was grown in the southeastern parts of the island. And in our time, the plant in question grows here like a weed. And already from European countries, the grass came to America, Australia and New Zealand during the period of geographical discoveries in the 15-17 centuries.
In Russia, the first mention of this greenery appeared in the 18th century. The Russian scientist Bolotov described this wonderful plant in his work in 1784, calling it kishnets, thereby proving the fact that it came to this country from the East. But they began to massively grow vegetable coriander in the 30s of the 19th century. In 1830, Count Apraksin brought his seeds from Spain, which were sown by the peasants of the village of Krasnoye from the Voronezh province.
In the Crimea, Central Asia and the North Caucasus, wild coriander remained as a memory of the troops and caravans of various peoples who were engaged in the cultivation of this greenery.
At first, this herb was used for medicinal purposes, and a little later it took one of the important places in the cuisines of many countries of the world. Roman soldiers and Russian merchants played a huge role in the spread of this plant. At first, it was treated as a weed, which was destroyed in all possible ways, and later they began to cultivate it.
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So, vegetable coriander is a rather healthy herb, which is used as a medicine, and is also used in the preparation of many dishes: soups, meat, fish and salads. It should be noted that the taste and aroma of this herb is quite pronounced, so it should be added to food in small quantities. And before serving, cooked sandwiches can be decorated with coriander sprigs, which will give them a more appetizing look. Because of their characteristic fresh greens taste, few people use them. You can buy it in the markets, and in the autumn-winter period - in supermarkets. But coriander grown independently at their dachas will be more useful without various harmful substances.
