Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Drinks from vegetables, fruits and berries

Drinks from vegetables, fruits and berries 

Vegetable juices are quickly integrated into the metabolism and requires almost no energy cost to assimilate. They adjust the acid-alkaline balance in the blood for diseases, increase the activity of enzymes that help eliminate toxins, have a tonic effect, stimulating digestion. 

Vitamins, mineral salts, and many useful trace elements (potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, etc.) in the vegetable juices are much greater than in fruit and berry. In addition, as part of the juices in the human body is almost not fall herbicides. 
Vegetable juices are unloaded digestive organs. No doubt their dignity - the rapid assimilation, which ends an hour after eating (in order to digest and assimilate vegetable dishes, takes the body a few hours). Juices should be drunk for 30-40 minutes. before meals or in between meals. More 


The word "drink" appeared in the Russian language is not so long ago - in the beginning of last century. The word is originally Russian, was formed from the verb "to sate, ie fill, feed. And beverages in Russia called initially only non-alcoholic fluids, which were a hearty and nutritious. "The coffee napitchiv" indicates, for example, in the dictionary Dahl. This apparently explains the expression "dine tea. 

Almost all Russian beverages are original and not duplicated in any other national cuisine. It sbiten, kvass, honeys, fruit drinks, water from, wild tea, pickles. Some were used as a drinks table for pouring dishes of meat and fowl, sugary cereals, others as independent - sbiten, mead. Some warming the cold northern winters, more refreshing, toning and accounted for the way in a hot day or to quench their thirst in the Russian bath. 

But there is a Russian drink and general - always natural products and high nutritional value. The basis of some form, vegetable, fruit and fruit juices, other - honey and milk. 

Vegetable Drinks 

Carrot. 

For four centuries used this wealth of vitamins and carotene, indispensable nowadays vegetables - carrots. In the old days it was considered a delicacy gnomes. There is a belief: otvezesh in the woods in the evening with a bowl of steamed carrots - in the morning at the same place you will find a bar zolota.Tak generously, believed gnomes pay for a favorite treat. Carrot juice before the doctor prescribed for cardiac abnormalities, eye diseases, when inflammation in the mouth, while colds, lack of milk in nursing mothers. Contribute it and remove the stones from the bladder, for which it should drink on a tablespoon, 3-4 times a day. 

Drink carrot. For the carrots boil and drink a half glass of cool water. A kilogram of carrots (better if it would karotel) thoroughly clean the brush, rub on a small grater, squeeze the juice, mix with water and season to taste with salt, lemon juice and two tablespoons of honey. The prepared beverage garnish with chopped dill. 

Drink carrot and cabbage brine. Carrot (750 g) of sodium in the fine grater. Squeeze the juice, stir with two glasses of brine sauerkraut and a glass of cooled boiled water, add chopped garlic cloves and half a tablespoon of minced green onion. Season with salt to taste and sugar, then mix it. The drink may be without garlic. 

Drink carrot and celery. Boil and cool glass of water. For a pound of carrots and celery, cleaned, rub on a small grater. Then squeeze the juice through a cloth or gauze. The resulting juice is mixed with water, season to taste with salt, sugar and citric acid. Add the chopped parsley. 

Drink "carrot". This drink is good to prepare children. One or two medium carrots, grate on a fine grater. The resulting mass of one hundred grams of warm milk and two teaspoons of sugar, mix in a blender, pour into a glass and serve with a teaspoon. 


Cocktail "Carrot-cream." Combine the egg yolks with oil, lemon juice and liquid cream. Season with salt and pepper to taste, and can be sweetened. Peeled apple grate on a grater and enter into the mixture so that it is not dark. There also add grated carrot on a small grater. Smetana need a hundred grams, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, the rest to taste. 

Cocktail "Little Red Riding Hood." A kilogram of carrots grate, pour a half cup of cold water, leave for two hours. Then squeeze through gauze, add cranberry juice (about cup), juice of one lemon, or half teaspoon of citric acid, sugar to taste, whip broom