Spinach: recipes and benefits for the body.

Everyone knows that greens are of great benefit to the human body. If you feel tired, apathy, malaise, then you should try to include in your diet, for example, spinach. It is a pleasant taste of greenery, which is rich in various trace elements, minerals and vitamins. If you use spinach, the recipes of many dishes will be able to diversify your table.

Spinach has appeared in our country thanks to the English, who have been growing it since the 14th century. It grows very fast and has a lot of properties beneficial to the body. The English still enjoy spinach, recipes with which are truly varied and tasty. This greens strengthens the vessels, stimulates the process of digestion, improves eyesight, and works the pancreas. Spinach is very useful for children, as well as for those who suffer from hypertension. He is appointed in the diets, as well as those who suffer from insomnia and certain disorders of the nervous system. Spinach, which recipes are suitable for every day, has a number of contraindications to eating: liver, kidney, gallbladder, and duodenal ulcers.

Recently, strawberry spinach has become popular . Recipes for its preparation are also tasty and useful. Despite the fact that many consider it a hybrid of spinach, strawberries and raspberries, it is just an ornamental vegetable with an attractive appearance. The most popular result of making such spinach is kvass. You need to collect spinach after the rain, and do not need to wash it. Then mash the berries. If you have a bucket of such spinach, then you need to add a bucket of warm boiled water, as well as 2 kilos of sugar. Fill all this in a large bottle and cover it with a cotton swab. Kvass should wander about three days, then it must be filtered and put in the refrigerator. If you do everything right, the kvass will turn out to be fragrant, effervescent, velvety, red, it will smell of nut and malt.

Spinach soup, the recipe of which is known to many housewives, will also become an ornament of your table and will please the household. In order to cook two servings, you will need a pack of spinach frozen, five slices of white loaf, 200 grams of cream, 50 grams of Parmesan cheese, 2 cloves of garlic, spices and salt. Now break the greens into pieces, without defrosting it, pour boiling water and put on gas. It should be cooked for five minutes. In the meantime, cook garlic toast, for which you first fry the chopped garlic in vegetable oil, and then slice the loaf in the same pan until golden brown. The contents of the pan with spinach must be beaten with a blender, add salt, cream, spices, then put again on the gas and bring to a boil. Before serving on the soup, cheese is rubbed from above and garlic croutons are added.

Spinach recipes are used in a variety of ways. You can even make a pie from it. To do this, take 500 grams of puff pastry, 300 grams of green onions, a kilo of spinach, a glass of vegetable oil, two bunches of dill, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Dill, onions and spinach must be finely chopped and mixed, then season with salt, add nutmeg, pepper and half a glass of butter. The dough should be rolled in two layers, one lay on a greased baking sheet, top on it to lay out the filling, and cover it all need a second layer of dough. Now connect the edges of the cake and make a couple of holes in it. The cake is baked in the oven for about an hour.

Mistresses can please guests and salad from spinach. It includes a handful of this greens, torn salad leaves to taste, a bunch of cut radishes, fresh cucumber in large cubes, juice of half a lemon and three tablespoons of olive oil.

Using recipes with spinach, you greatly diversify your diet.