Low-calorie and healthy oat root. When it is impossible to introduce goatling into the diet. Recipes from the product and interesting facts about it. The use of goatbeard for diseases of various kinds and during the rehabilitation process helps to increase immunity. In case of colds, oat root stimulates the secretion of phlegm and facilitates expectoration.
Gruel or salsify juice as an external remedy suppresses purulent-inflammatory processes, prevents acne, accelerates scarring of ulcers and helps burns to heal quickly.
In Russia, goat beetle was used as an aphrodisiac. For men, it increases potency, and for women it returns sexual desire.
Harm and contraindications to the use of oat root
Contraindications to oat root have not yet been described, with the exception of individual intolerance.
It is necessary to limit the use of goatling with increased acidity and a tendency to diarrhea, with increased blood clotting and with hypotension.
Like any new product, oat root is introduced into the diet of children with care. It is better not to experiment with children's stomachs until the age of 3, the formation of the intestinal flora ends by this age.
During lactation, you should not try goatbeard so that the baby does not give up the breast. A spicy product changes the taste of breast milk, and a bitterness appears in it.
It is impossible to predict the body's reaction during pregnancy, allergies occur even when familiar foods are consumed. It is not necessary to overload the digestive organs, which already have a double load.
You can not collect goatbeard in ecologically polluted areas. The root accumulates salts of heavy metals, nitrates from the soil and phenol compounds.
Oat Root Recipes
Oat root is served as a side dish and is added as an ingredient to dishes. It can be boiled and stewed, fried in batter, or baked on the grill. The taste of goat bark is combined with cheeses, fish and herbs.
The spicy root is often substituted for horseradish. In order to get rid of bitterness, it is pre-soaked in a solution of salt, citric acid or lemon juice.
Oat Root Recipes:
- Pickled goatbeard … Red onions, 3 pieces, cut into rings. Root crop, 1 kg, peeled from small lateral shoots, peel off with a thin knife. The root is boiled for 10-15 minutes to eliminate the bitterness. A rich vegetable broth from carrots, potatoes, white onions and beets is cooked in advance, the liquid is decanted. Jars are sterilized. Distribute a teaspoon of mustard seeds, rings of red onions, a little bit of spices - sage and thyme over the jars. Then the oat root cut into strips is laid out in jars. You can take a handful of dried spices, but it is better to take 1 fresh leaf of herbs. The broth, 650 g, is brought to a boil, just before turning off, pour in a little more than half a glass of wine vinegar. Pour the root with marinade and roll up the jars with sterilized lids.
- Goatbeard soup … The oat root is peeled, soaked for 15 minutes in water with citric acid. Then washed with running cold water, boiled until completely soft. Half of the cooked roots are interrupted with a blender in mashed potatoes, the second part is set aside for now. The potatoes are peeled, cut into strips, boiled in oat root broth for 10 minutes. Onions are chopped, carrots are rubbed, vegetables are fried in sunflower oil. Pour in the frying and the celery stalk cut into slices, cook until the potatoes are fully cooked. Before turning it off, add some salt to the contents of the pan, dip the goatbread puree and chopped slices, 2 sprigs of parsley and dill each. After 2 minutes, turn off the pan, take out the sprigs of herbs. You can put a piece of butter or sour cream on each plate.
- Casserole … Oat roots, 400 g, soaked in salt water to remove bitterness, washed. Boil until tender, cut into rings of equal thickness, put in a mold greased with sunflower oil. Beat 3-4 eggs with salt, add mayonnaise and finely chopped red onion to the eggs. Mix everything again, pepper and salt. Pour beaten eggs over root vegetables and put in a hot oven. A temperature of 160-170 ° C is sufficient. The casserole is cooked for 15-20 minutes, the eggs are slightly raised. If in the last minutes you add a little heat and rearrange the shape higher, then a beautiful ruddy crust will appear on it.
- Winter salad … 200 g of oat root is soaked in lemon juice, washed, boiled until tender. Cut into small pieces, preferably into cubes. Boil 2 eggs and knead them with a fork. Eggs, green peas, chopped red onions are mixed with oat root. If you don't have red onions at hand, you can pickle ordinary onions with vinegar and sugar. Another cucumber is added to the salad mixture - salted or fresh. If the cucumber is salted, then the best dressing is mayonnaise, fresh salad is seasoned with sour cream. The last option is additionally salted.
- Summer salad … Peeled and boiled chopped oat roots are mixed with boiled potatoes, boiled egg and finely chopped leaves of young plantain. For dressing, mix sour cream with a small amount of apple cider vinegar. Salt and pepper to taste. Add chopped parsley and dill to the salad. Summer salad can be made with oat root, parsley root, fresh carrots, and celery leaves. Season with sour cream.
- Okroshka … The root is soaked in salt water and washed. Before being dipped into water, cut into at least 2-3 pieces to get rid of the bitterness. It is not necessary to cut smaller, it will be difficult to grate. Cut a cucumber into cubes, cut an apple into strips. All ingredients are mixed, salted, finely chopped leaves of oat root are added, the mixture is poured with yogurt.
- French garnish … For 10-15 minutes, the peeled goatbeard roots are soaked in lemon juice diluted in half with water. Then they are boiled with salt and sugar. Cut the boiled roots into circles, add breadcrumbs and mix everything. Season with olive oil.
- Tonic drink … The dried oat root is fried in a dry skillet until golden brown, cooled and ground with a blender. Brewed like coffee. The drink tastes better if you add a spoonful of cream to it.
When adding goatbeard leaves to salads, they must be washed and squeezed out the milky juice.
It is recommended to introduce dishes from goat beetle into the diet for those who are losing weight. Of course, in this case, only low-fat sour cream is used for dressing, you will have to forget about mayonnaise. A two-week diet with oat root salad instead of dinner will help you shed 3 to 4 kg of excess weight.
Interesting facts about oat root
The plant owes its name "goat beetle" to the ancient Greeks. At first, they simply dug it out in the fields, and then began to grow it in vegetable gardens. It was they who compared the root to the beard of a goat. "Tragos" in translation from Greek means "goat", "pogon" - "beard".
In Russia, the plant was called differently - "devil's beard". It was under this name that he got into the famous dictionary of Efron and Brockhaus.
Hunters, going to the winter road, always took with them a dried goat-bred so as not to get sick with scurvy.
Oat root is actively cultivated in the Mediterranean. There the plant is called "vegetable oyster" or "oyster root". Seafood-spoiled Italians and Spaniards compare the taste of salsify to that of oysters.
In Italy and France, the root crop is grown on an industrial scale, it is purchased by famous restaurateurs.
In Russia and Ukraine, the meadow goat is sown more. This plant can also be eaten, but the roots are not so large and less sweet. But on the other hand, this species is an excellent honey plant and is valued as an agricultural crop.
The oat root is harvested in the fall, it is better to do this after the first frost. Frozen roots taste sweeter. Only annual plants are harvested. The roots are carefully dug out, trying not to break off the small thin root-appendages, and then they are cleaned of the earth. Then it is dried by spreading it out in one layer in a dry ventilated area. If the root breaks off, it is not suitable for storage, the fragile pulp immediately rots. Watch a video about oat root:
If you introduce this vegetable crop into your diet, you can delight your family with a delicious dish and improve your health.
