The now popular black radish salad can be dietary, based on vegetables and herbs, or hearty, with the addition of meat products. This dish is tasty, nutritious, rich in various vitamins and minerals. When preparing dishes based on a healthy root crop, it is worth considering its bitter taste, which is good to dilute with neutral or sweetish foods.
Simple black radish salad with carrots
To prepare a delicious and healthy salad of black radish with carrots, you should stock up:
- black radish - a couple of pieces;
- carrot;
- fresh cucumber;
- boiled egg;
- garlic - a couple of teeth;
- lettuce leaves;
- sour cream - 1.5 tbsp. l.;
- salt.
A tasty, but slightly forgotten dish will help to strengthen the immune system, improve the body's resistance to pathogenic flora.
For lovers of spicy dishes, the radish is not pre-soaked in water. If it is necessary to get rid of the characteristic bitterness, the root crop is traditionally soaked for 8 minutes in cool water.
A sharp root crop is peeled and rubbed on a coarse grater. Carrots with cucumber are chopped with a grater, mixed with radish, chopped egg and lettuce leaves. At the end, salt is added, garlic passed through a press and sour cream sauce.
Hearty cooking option with meat
Balanced taste, a complex of useful substances - black radish salad with meat will satisfy hunger, improve health.
It is prepared on the basis of:
- meat (beef, chicken, pork) - 300 g;
- black radish - 1 root crop;
- Luke;
- mayonnaise sauce - 90 ml;
- salt, spices;
- greenery.
First, the meat is boiled in salted water until tender. After it should be cooled and cut into thin strips.
Well, if the meat is cooled in the broth, then it will remain juicy and tasty.
Peel the radish, grind the loin with a grater, soak in water if desired. Peel the onion, cut into thin rings, marinate in a small amount of vinegar.
The dish is prepared from:
- radishes - 350 g;
- onion - 60 g;
- boiled chicken eggs - 2-4 pcs.;
- sour cream - 100 ml.
The main product is rubbed on a coarse grater, soaked in water and left for 120 minutes. The onion is cut, mixed with grated eggs and radish. Everything is mixed, seasoned with sour cream.
In this simple but hearty salad with sour cream, if desired, you can add other products - vegetables, herbs, meat, mushrooms. Each new product will add its own taste to the dish, reveal it and complement it.
Cooking with chicken
To prepare a salad, stock up:
- radish;
- green onions - 30 g;
- boiled chicken breast;
- fresh cucumber;
- mayonnaise sauce - a couple of tablespoons;
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
- salt and herbs.
Clean, skinless radish is crushed with a loin grater. Boiled chicken is divided into small fibers. The eggs are rubbed, the greens are chopped with a knife. The cucumber is peeled, cut into small strips. Combine all products in a suitable container, mix, add dressing.
Such a salad can be laid out in layers, smearing each with sauce.
Vitamin black radish salad with cucumber
This vegetable snack healthy, very tasty and light, it has a minimum of calories.
It is prepared on the basis of:
- radish;
- fresh cucumbers - a couple of pieces;
- green onion;
- sour cream;
- lemon juice - 7 g;
- salt.
The black root crop is peeled and crushed with a grater. Onions are chopped in the form of thin rings, cucumbers are cut into small slices. Everything connects, refuels lemon juice, is mixed. At the end add white sauce, knead, serve.
How to make with sauerkraut
A simple salad that will strengthen the immune system better than any medicine.
To prepare it, stock up:
- radish;
- sauerkraut- 270 g;
- bow;
- vegetable oil (aromatic);
- salt, sugar.
The radish is rubbed, mixed with sauerkraut and chopped onions. Then spices and oil are added to taste.
To make the salad brighter, you can add several types of sweet pepper.
green apple recipe
A quick, economical, vitamin salad is sure to please every housewife and all household members.
Prepared from:
- black radish;
- carrots - a couple of pieces;
- apples
- parsley;
- green onion;
- garlic cloves - to taste;
- mayonnaise - 80 ml.
Carrots with radish are peeled and chopped on a loin grater. Green apple wash, cut into thin strips. Grind the green onion feathers, chop the greens. Combine everything, add a little garlic juice, season with sauce.
Salad of black radish and eggs
To prepare the dish, a minimum set of products is used:
- testicles - a couple of pieces;
- black root crop;
- carrot;
- garlic cloves;
- mayonnaise sauce.
Eggs are boiled hard-boiled, radishes and carrots are peeled. Everything is rubbed on a coarse grater, mixed and seasoned with sauce. Garlic juice and spices are added to taste. Instead of mayonnaise, you can take sour cream. It is good if the product is high in fat content. It perfectly combines all the ingredients in one composition.
Healthy snack with beets
This savory appetizer will complement any side dish, be it grilled meat over a fire, baked fish or potato dishes.
Prepared on the basis of:
- black radish;
- young beets;
- onion;
- vegetable fat;
- black ground pepper, salt.
A large onion is peeled, cut into half rings and fried until golden brown.
You need to pour more fat, do not regret it, as it will eventually serve as a salad dressing.
Young beets and radishes are peeled and grated. Mix everything, add onion frying, spices to taste. Let stand in the refrigerator for an hour.
With cheese
This one of the fastest snacks is prepared on the basis of:
- radishes - a couple of root crops;
- mayonnaise sauce - to taste;
- hard cheese - 130 g;
- garlic cloves;
- parsley, dill, celery.
The white part of the radish is ground with a fine grater. Cheese and garlic cloves are rubbed in the same way. Everything is mixed, seasoned with sauce. From the resulting mass, balls of the same size are formed and laid out in a slide on the greens. You can divide the base into several parts, add to each food coloring, knead, form balls. Such a salad will look festive, adults and children will try it with pleasure.
Cooking with potatoes
The products in this salad are laid out in layers in a culinary ring. The result is an effective and hearty snack loved by many men.
To prepare the dish, stock up:
- black radish - several small root crops;
- boiled potatoes - 7 pcs.;
- raw carrots;
- onions - a couple of pieces;
- boiled eggs - 4 pcs.;
- sauce, spices;
- greens, including onion feathers.
Boil potatoes in their skins, peel. Peel the radish, grate it on a coarse grater, sprinkle with salt and leave for 15 minutes (another good trick to eliminate bitterness). In order for the bitter juice to drain, the root crop is first placed in a colander.
The carrots are rubbed, the eggs are boiled, the proteins are separated from the yolks. Grate the whites, chop the potatoes with a large grater. Chop the onion and mix with the squeezed root crop.
Lay the slices in layers in the culinary ring, smearing with sauce. The bottom layer is potatoes, after onions with radishes, carrots, protein. The yellow part of the egg is rubbed on top of the sauce, a little green onion is laid out. Such a salad can be prepared with the addition of beef, boiled or baked in the oven.
With pickled mushrooms
The appetizer is prepared from the following ingredients:
- radish;
- pickled mushrooms - 200 g;
- vegetable fat - 3 tbsp. l.;
- onions, salt.
The radish is cut into thin strips, soaked and fried in oil. When it cools down, it should be mixed with chopped mushrooms and onion rings. Spices and aromatic oil are added to taste.
Festive salad with boiled pork
tender, beautiful dish contains a huge amount of minerals and vitamins.
It is prepared on the basis of:
- black radish;
- eggs - a couple of pieces;
- boiled pork - 220 g;
- onion;
- apples - 3 small;
- carrots;
- balsamic vinegar;
- mayonnaise sauce;
- olive oil.
Apples and radish are peeled, chopped with a coarse grater. Previously, bitterness should be removed from the root crop in any way. Boil the eggs, finely chop. Fry the onion until golden brown, grate the carrot. Mix everything, sprinkle with vinegar.
Boiled pork is cut and introduced into the salad along with the eggs. Add salt, pepper, sauce, knead. Serve by laying out a snack in a slide and decorating with greens.
Many gifts of nature have not only become regular guests on our tables, but have also gained fame as healing products. Black radish is a plant of the cruciferous family, which is quite common in Russian gardens and summer cottages. The history of the root crop dates back to ancient times, and black radish was first brought from South Asia. This vegetable is not found in the wild, but it is widely distributed on all continents. Black radish is widely cultivated in Russia, Turkey, Belgium, Australia and many other countries.
Black radish: useful properties of the root crop
Radish is a real storehouse of health, its beneficial properties can hardly be overestimated. The root crop contains a large amount of vitamins, including such as A, B, E, C, PP. Its composition in large quantities includes such trace elements and useful substances as potassium, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, iodine, fluorine, copper, molybdenum, tin. This vegetable has very few calories, but a lot of carbohydrates, organic acids, dietary fiber and vegetable protein.
Traditionally, black radish serves as an excellent cough remedy, as it has expectorant properties, can strengthen the body's defenses, and boost immunity. The root crop is an excellent remedy for the treatment of various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as it improves digestion, intestinal motility and the condition of blood vessels.
Black radish is not only a valuable medicine, but also an excellent prophylactic: eating it can protect a person from seasonal colds, helps to tone up and gain vitality from Mother Nature herself.
Healing salads
Due to its unique beneficial properties and spicy, slightly bitter taste, the root crop has become a frequent guest on the tables in the form variety of salads and snacks. Many are known various recipes its preparation. When you get bored with the usual dishes and salads, black radish comes to the rescue. Recipes based on it amaze with variety, and dishes with amazing taste. Dishes from a valuable root crop are easy and quick to prepare, but before cooking, it is necessary to remove the characteristic bitter taste from the vegetable. In order for black radish to lose its “bitter” feature, it must first be soaked for 1-1.5 hours in cold water.
Healthy salad with sour cream
To make a black radish salad, you need to prepare the following ingredients: root vegetables - 400 g, onions - 50 g, medium-sized carrots, boiled boiled egg, salt and sour cream to taste. It is necessary to grate the vegetable on a coarse grater and leave for several hours to extract the juice. Add finely chopped onion, grated carrot, diced boiled egg. Season the salad with salt and sour cream.
Salad with green peas
For cooking lung spring salad you need to take black radish (400 g), a jar canned peas, a bunch of greens (onion, dill, green onion), spices and vegetable oil taste. Grate the radish on a medium grater, add finely chopped greens, green pea, salt and spices to taste. Fill the salad with any vegetable oil.
Spicy radish salads
Onion or garlic will complement the spicy sharpness of the root crop well, for this you just need to rub the black radish on a coarse grater, add finely chopped onion or crushed garlic and season the salad with salt, spices and vegetable oil. To give the salad a twist, you can pre-prepare the onion by pickling it with table vinegar. Any black radish salad will decorate the table and improve the appetite of households and guests.
pickled radish
An interesting snack is obtained from a spicy root crop. To prepare a pickled vegetable, you need: black radish - 3 kg, sweet red pepper - 00 g, herbs to taste, garlic - 1 pc., 1 liter of water, 3 tbsp. spoons of salt, 1.5 tbsp. spoons of sugar table vinegar. Grate the radish on a coarse grater, pour 1 tbsp into sterilized jars. a spoonful of vinegar, put greens, garlic on the bottom, put grated radish, blanched pepper on top. Pour the jars with brine, which is prepared as follows: put salt, sugar in boiled water, stir until the crystals are completely dissolved. Roll up the jars with a lid, wrap them warmly until they cool completely. A few days later, a delicious, slightly spicy black radish is ready to eat. The recipes are easy to follow, and the end result will exceed all the expectations of the hostess.
Classic cough recipe
Invariably radish is the best remedy cough, due to its properties. Honey becomes the main ally in the fight against the disease. Black radish with honey is a real healing elixir that is ideal for both adults and children.
How to cure a cough in adults
To prepare the drug, you need to take a medium-sized root crop, wash it and cut off the top so that you get a lid. Next, scrape out the middle of the remaining radish with a knife until a semblance of a cup is obtained. In the resulting cup, you need to put two tablespoons of honey, cover with a radish lid and leave overnight. During this time, juice will stand out inside the black radish, which must be consumed in order to get rid of the cough. Take a tasty and natural medicine should be three times a day for 5-10 minutes before meals.
How to cure a cough in a child
For children, another way of preparing healing black radish is suitable. You need to take a root crop, wash it thoroughly and grate it on a coarse grater. Next, you need to squeeze the juice through cheesecloth and add 2 tablespoons of honey. The course should be started with one drop of radish juice and honey, gradually increasing the dose by 2 drops per day. When the single volume of juice is brought to 1 tablespoon, the drug should be offered to the child three times a day 20 minutes before meals.
Before taking radish with honey, you should make sure that the person is not allergic to these products. Black radish for cough is a recipe that has been tried by many generations.
My light, mirror, tell me
The properties of black radish are appreciated not only by traditional healers, but also by cosmetologists. Its juice is able to have a bactericidal, wound-healing effect, improves the structure of the skin and nourishes it with beneficial substances. Depending on the type and condition of the skin, cosmetologists offer women cosmetic masks for the face and neck of various compositions.
For owners of oily skin, a mask made from a mixture of one tablespoon of black radish juice and one whipped yolk is ideal. The mixture should be applied to the skin of the face and neck and left for 20 minutes. After the set time has elapsed, remove the mask with a swab dipped in a solution of green tea, wash with cool water.
A mask made from black radish juice, aloe and green tea leaves will have an excellent rejuvenating effect. Combine all the ingredients in equal proportions and apply on skin previously lubricated with cream or oil. Wash off with warm water after 20 minutes.
There is a recipe for a nourishing mask that will saturate the skin of the face and neck with valuable biologically active substances. To prepare the mask, you need to mix black radish juice, honey, sour cream in equal proportions and add a few drops of olive oil to the resulting mixture. Apply the finished mask to the skin of the face and neck, after applying any cream to the face. After 20 minutes, wash off the mask with warm water, remove the remaining cream with a cosmetic sponge.
Black radish in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases
The gastrointestinal tract plays an important role in the life of the body, since it is in the stomach and intestines that food is processed and the absorption of nutrients takes place. Therefore, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract always cause a lot of problems for a person, up to the refusal of food. Black radish comes to the aid of the patient, the biological properties of which are able to restore the disturbed function of digestion.
For those who suffer from constipation, freshly squeezed radish juice is ideal. For treatment, you need to dilute one tablespoon of juice with a glass of warm water and drink three such servings of the drink per day.
In order to cleanse the liver of toxins and toxins, it is necessary to take orally one gelatin capsule of pharmacy black radish per day, drinking it with a sufficient amount of water.
With inflammation of the gallbladder, traditional medicine recommends the following treatment method. It is necessary to squeeze the juice of black radish, take one teaspoon of the resulting juice and dilute it with water of one and a half liters. Add a few drops of lemon juice to the drink and drink all the resulting liquid during the day.
"Everything is poison and everything is medicine"
Since ancient times, pundits have understood that the dose makes any product both a healing drug and a dangerous poison. Any food product can have contraindications, and black radish is no exception. The beneficial properties of this vegetable can be completely lost if the vegetable is consumed excessively.
If a person is concerned about ulcerative defects of the intestinal mucosa or stomach, then the root crop is contraindicated for him, as it contains irritating substances. For the same reason, black radish, especially raw, should not be eaten by those who suffer from gastritis with high acidity. Some diseases of the kidneys and liver are also an obstacle to the use of vegetables as a remedy.
The benefits of black radish are undoubtedly great, but its misuse or use of too much can cause significant harm to health. It should be remembered that any product, both animal and vegetable, sometimes causes unwanted allergic reactions that can be life-threatening and health-threatening.
Before using any remedy traditional medicine it is necessary to consult with your doctor to avoid problems in the future. Any recipe of our grandmothers should complement the treatment prescribed by the doctor, and not be its alternative. Take care of your health and eat healthy foods!
Black radish: composition, benefits, medicinal properties, contraindications. Black radish for cough. Vitamin salads from black radish.
For a long time, radish has been known to people as an extremely useful and extremely unpretentious root crop. The ancient Greeks treated him with special reverence: they ate radish, used it as a medicinal drug, and brought the most beautiful fruits as a gift to the gods. According to ancient Greek legend, the healer god Apollo believed that it was not a pity to give as much gold for this vegetable as it weighs. In his writings, the famous Hippocrates repeatedly mentioned the benefits of radish. The Hellenes were right: the nutritional and medicinal properties of this vegetable really deserve attention.
Multicolored family: types of radish
Today, radishes are cultivated in the temperate climates of Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. Numerous varieties of radish differ in varying degrees of juiciness, bitterness and pungency. There are among them moderately burning, and gentle salad, and those from which tears involuntarily roll down the cheeks.
Fruit color varies from white, pink to green, dark purple and brown. But the most useful are black root crops, they are also the most burning. This variety surpasses its "pale-faced" sisters in vitamin and mineral composition.
Green (Chinese, Margelan) radish is less spicy, it is more suitable for those who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract. Japanese radish(daikon) is the most tender, and although there are not so many vitamins in it, it is very resistant to pesticides: it practically does not absorb harmful chemicals that fertilize the soil. And the most interesting thing: it turns out that the radish, beloved by the people, is just an early ripening dwarf radish.
Vitamin cocktail: composition of black radish
Black radish is a wonderful remedy for strengthening the immune system, especially in the winter-spring period. This modest vegetable is rich in organic acids, enzymes, amino acids, fiber, contains proteins, glycosides, fatty oil, carotene. In addition, black radish is a source of B vitamins, tocopherol, ascorbic acid and the most important for health. mineral salts: potassium, magnesium, sodium, iron and phosphorus. Alkaline minerals, contained in large quantities in radish, remove salt, excess water and toxic metabolic products from the body. A specific burning taste is given to root crops essential oils(phytoncides), according to their quantity, black radish is equated to horseradish and onions. It is these substances that have bactericidal properties.
Useful substances are distributed unevenly in the fruits of the plant. The “tail” contains the most beneficial mustard oil for immunity and digestion. The middle is the sweetest and crunchiest, it contains a lot of vegetable sugars necessary for the heart muscle and fiber indispensable for the intestines. The few centimeters closest to the leaves are especially rich in vitamin C.
Calorie content of black radish: 35 kcal.
The nutritional value: carbohydrates - 6.7 g, proteins - 1.9 g, fats - 0.2 g.
Bitter medicine: the benefits of black radish
O useful properties ah radish has been known since the time of Herodotus. The famous healer Avicenna called this humble vegetable "the main medicine." Due to the presence of fiber and dietary fiber, black radish is good for digestion. It stimulates appetite, enhances intestinal peristalsis, prevents dysbacteriosis, improves metabolism, has a choleretic effect, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, helps to release the body from excess cholesterol. Due to the abundance of B vitamins, eating fresh tubers strengthens memory and helps to resist stress. Radish is indicated for gout, atherosclerosis, hypertension and colds. Black radish salads cleanse blood vessels, help dissolve stones in the renal pelvis, urinary and gallbladder and ducts.
House doctor: cough - fight!
Saves black radish and cough. Since ancient times, people have been using burning root crops to alleviate coughs, treat bronchitis and tracheitis. Since childhood, many have been familiar with the tart-sweet juice that their grandmother gave to drink when she had a cold. You can cook it in two ways.
- First: cut off the top of the radish and cut a fairly deep and wide funnel in the middle, put a spoonful of honey there and wait until the juice forms. Take 30-40 minutes before meals, 1 tablespoon. Honey can be replaced with sugar (the sweet component must be added to the hole as needed, because it is she who draws the healing juice from the root crop). So that the drug is enough for all daily intakes, fill several fruits with honey at once.
- The second way: you need to wash the radish well, rub it together with the skin on a grater and squeeze the juice out of it through cheesecloth, add honey to it in a ratio of 1: 1. Store in enamel saucepan by covering with a lid.
Joints - health!
From the remaining cake, you can make lotions and compresses for gout, radiculitis, rheumatism, lumbago and other similar ailments: the cake is squeezed hard, wrapped in gauze or a cotton bag and applied to sore spots. Fresh black radish juice is used to wash ulcers and purulent wounds, rub sore spots with joint ailments, sciatica, and intercostal neuralgia. For pain in the joints, it is mixed with honey and vodka in a ratio of 3:2:1. The resulting balm is rubbed on sore spots after a bath or bath (it is necessary that the body be warmed up).
Contraindications
Black radish is contraindicated in acute diseases of the kidneys, heart, liver, intestines (peptic ulcer, hyperacidity, enterocolitis, etc.), toxic goiter, after a recent heart attack, during pregnancy. If you have health problems, you need to consult a specialist.
Use
Among our ancestors of the Slavs, radish has always taken pride of place on the table: it was stewed, boiled, added to soups and salads. How can one not recall the Old Slavonic prison - cold soup on kvass with grated radish and black bread rusks, which was prepared every day in village families.
Today, the radish has become a minor vegetable in Russian cuisine. But in India, Japan, China, Vietnam, it is salted, pickled, boiled, stewed with meat, various seasonings are prepared from ripened fruits, and even young leaves are used in soups and salads. And the French are very fond of soup with fried slices of radish.
What to cook from black radish: recipes for vitamin salads
Recipe 1. Salad "Health"
Ingredients: 100 g each radish, carrot, white cabbage and sour apples, a piece of celery root, a sprig of dill and parsley, a stalk of celery, olive oil and salt to taste.
Chop the washed and peeled vegetables, put in a salad bowl, add salt, finely chopped greens, apples and season with cold-pressed oil.
Recipe 2. Radish salad with white cabbage
Ingredients: 3 radishes, 200 g cabbage, 1 cup sour cream, a handful of chopped parsley, salt to taste.
Grind the radish on a coarse grater, finely chop the cabbage and mix with salt. Put the vegetables in a salad bowl, mix with chopped herbs and pour sour cream. Cabbage in this recipe can be replaced with fresh cucumber, tomatoes, bell pepper, steamed zucchini.
Recipe 3. Salad with baked beets
Ingredients: 3 medium-sized radishes and beets, half a glass of sour cream, 1 sour apple, salt and herbs to taste.
Bake the beets in the oven. Peel the baked beets, apples and radishes. Grate all the vegetables on a coarse grater, put in a salad bowl, season with sour cream and season with chopped herbs.
Recipe 4. Salad with nuts and carrots
Ingredients: 6-7 walnuts, 1 carrot, 1 radish, 2 garlic cloves, lemon quarter juice (or dessert spoon grape vinegar), 100 ml of sour cream.
Grind the peeled vegetables on a grater, add chopped nut kernels, garlic cloves passed through the garlic cloves. Top with sour cream and lemon juice. This recipe can be varied with pickled onions, adding it to the salad instead of garlic, and walnuts can be replaced with cashews or pistachios.
Recipe 5. Radish salad with beef
Ingredients: 1 radish, 1 onion, 1 egg, 200 g boiled beef, herbs, salt and homemade mayonnaise.
Meat and egg cut into cubes, mix with chopped herbs and grated radish, add onion toasted in butter, salt, put in a salad bowl and season with mayonnaise (or sour cream).
can please lovers of vegetables with an affordable price, ease of preparation and unusual taste. It brings a piquant zest to the usual salads, adds the missing spice to soups, and for those who regularly include this vegetable in their menu, it provides strong immunity and good memory. Let this wonderful root crop become a source of health and longevity for you too!
Our land is prolific with many vegetables that have not only excellent palatability, but also useful and even medicinal properties. Black radish- one of the popular root crops, you can cook a large number of delicious dishes from it.
Black radish is a storehouse of various vitamins and minerals. This vegetable is useful for both children and adults. Due to its low calorie content, it is well suited for people striving for an ideal figure. At proper cooking this root crop does not lose its properties, but only emphasizes them.
Black radish is used in the fight against many problems, namely:
- Cough.
- Strengthens the immune system.
- Helps with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Improves the strength of blood vessels.
A vegetable is not only a good cure for many diseases, with frequent use it gives strength and energy, apathy and lethargy disappear, a person gains strength and becomes more cheerful. Also, when eating radish, you can protect the body from the occurrence of seasonal colds.
The juice of the vegetable itself is no less valuable, it has antimicrobial and antiviral properties. Numerous studies have shown that using an extract from this root crop, it is possible to replace an antibiotic such as penicillin. The root crop contains a large amount of potassium, which is important for the musculoskeletal system, like calcium.
Black radish tastes no different from ordinary radish, has the same juicy, crisp white flesh with a slightly sweet aftertaste. It is still similar in taste to horseradish and turnips. If you prefer to add radish to salads, then you will like black radish no less.
Some varieties come with a little bitterness, but in combination with other components, this gives sophistication and piquancy to the dish.
Benefits of the product
Even the ancient Greeks used this vegetable to heal many diseases. Avicena considered it one of the main products that mother nature created for human use and nutrition. Since the root crop contains a large amount of fiber and dietary fiber, it helps to improve intestinal motility, acts as a protection against dysbacteriosis, removes bile well and enhances metabolic processes.
The root crop helps well in the treatment of the following diseases:
- Gout.
- Atherosclerosis.
- Hypertension.
- Colds.
- Improves memory.
- Removes or reduces fatigue, nervousness.
- Fights urolithiasis by dissolving stones in the kidney.
- Works as a cleanser for blood vessels from cholesterol plaques and other deposits.
You can talk about the beneficial properties for a long time, because this product is a natural plant component that does not harm a person, but only benefits. But if you decide to carry out treatment or preventive measures with the daily use of radish, first of all, it is recommended to consult a doctor.
The use of vegetables in the fight against cough
Despite the very specific taste qualities that this root vegetable has, it has long been used to treat cough in pneumonia, bronchitis, and tracheitis. Even grandmothers forced us to drink unpleasant-tasting juice, thanks to which unpleasant symptoms passed or mitigated.
The black radish recipe has been effective since ancient times and has remained effective today and has several varieties:
- First way. Take one large root vegetable, wash it and cut a lid with a small indentation on top. Add 1 tbsp to it. l. liquid honey, and leave for a while for the formation of juice. You can add sugar as you use the medicine, adding a small amount daily. Take the drug should be half an hour before meals for 1 tbsp. l. no more than three times a day. To ensure that such a medicine is enough for a long time of treatment, make several such blanks at once.
- The second way. Take a vegetable, wash it and grate along with the peel on a coarse grater. The resulting pulp must be squeezed with gauze to make juice. Add the same amount of honey to it. Store the composition in the refrigerator, in a container with a closed lid.
Such simple but effective recipes will charitably affect the respiratory organs and relieve annoying coughs, both adults and children.
Delicious recipes to eat
Black radish has long been a guest of honor on every table, from the nobility to simple rural workers. Nowadays, this vegetable has ceased to be used so often, but in many countries it is marinated, fried, boiled, stewed, and even leaves are used to make soups and other dishes. Although this is not a very popular root vegetable, there are many recipes with it, by preparing which you will delight your family. exquisite taste, and your body with a set of vitamins and minerals.
The main and most delicious recipes for making radish salads:
- Salad "Health" - for its preparation you will need 100 g of a vegetable and the same amount of carrots, cabbage, sour apples, a small piece of celery root, a bunch of parsley and dill, as well as vegetable oil, salt, pepper to taste. Wash all ingredients-vegetables thoroughly, cut into thin strips or slices, put in a salad bowl. Ready meal you need to mix and add oil (preferably olive oil) to it. Simple but very useful, light and delicious salad ready to use.
- Cabbage salad with radish (black). Take a few root crops, 300-350 g of cabbage, 1 tbsp. low-fat sour cream or yogurt, a small bunch of parsley, salt. Wash the vegetables, grate the radish (preferably coarse), and chop the cabbage into small strips, grind everything with salt with your hands. Next, add greens and sour cream. Cabbage can be replaced with other vegetables, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, or even zucchini.
- Salad with beetroot. To prepare such a dish, you will need 3 small root crops and the same amount of beets, half a glass of sour cream, 1 apple, greens, salt. Bake the peeled beets in the oven, then grate all the vegetables, put in a dish and brush with sour cream, sprinkle finely chopped parsley and dill on top.
- Salad with radish, carrots and walnuts. You will need 6-10 nuts, 1 carrot and radish, 1-2 tbsp. l. lemon juice, 100 ml sour cream and 2 small cloves of garlic. All vegetables, previously washed under running water, must be grated, squeezed or finely chopped garlic and chopped nuts are added. Separately, prepare dressing from sour cream and juice, add to salad and mix.
- Salad with black radish and beef. You will need 1 large onion and radish, a couple of eggs, 200 g boiled meat, herbs, mayonnaise, salt to taste. Cut beef with egg into cubes, add greens and grated radish. Fry the onion for sunflower oil, add to the dish. Add mayonnaise to the salad, salt and pepper if desired.
Black radish recipes for its preparation are very simple and do not take much time to prepare, they will delight you with excellent taste, low price and will be useful for the body.
What else can be used with the product?
Black radish is the most common vegetable, and it is recommended to cook it different ways. Can be fried with potatoes, chopped and cooked potato salad, boil, bake in the oven with meat or boil delicious soup. All the dishes that you make will be very tasty, but there is one thing. The root crop is most useful in its raw form, so it is better to choose recipes where heat treatment is not required.
A few recipes:
- Fried radish. Undoubtedly, in this form, the vegetable has fewer useful properties, but for starters, you can try this simple and delicious recipe. You will need a couple of large root vegetables and vegetable oil. Wash the radish, remove the skin and cut into thin slices. Then heat a frying pan well with oil and fry the workpieces on each side. Salt on top and can be eaten warm or cold.
- Radish kimchi. This type of dish is common in many countries, especially among lovers spicy dishes. For cooking, you will need several large fruits, 1 tsp. l. salt with a slide, 2 tsp. cayenne or chili powder, rice vinegar, a bunch of herbs, a couple of cloves of garlic and sugar to taste. Grind the washed and peeled radish with a special grater in the form of thin strips and sprinkle them with salt. Let them brew for 20 minutes, rinse under running water. Then try to squeeze out as much juice as possible, it will be superfluous in this dish. In a separate container, mix all the ingredients, add the squeezed radish, mix and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
- Chips for beer. Such a simple dish will be unusual in the company of friends and is perfect for beer. To prepare it, the radish, washed and peeled with a vegetable peeler or a food processor, must be cut into thin slices. Then put the blanks on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Bake the slices in the oven until done. Chips can be sprinkled with delicious seasonings or just coarse salt.
- Radish salad with mustard. For lovers of spicy, this dish will come in handy. Take a few root vegetables, 2 tbsp with a slide of Dijon mustard, 5 tbsp. olive oil, vinegar, parsley, salt and pepper. Rinse and peel the vegetable, beat the mustard in a separate bowl, with water and oil, add salt and pepper, you should get a sauce of thick consistency. Add greens, pour homemade mustard mixture over everything and stir.
- Potato salad. You will need half a kilogram of wax potatoes, 200 g of radish, 6 medium cloves of garlic, a few tablespoons of olive oil, wine vinegar, liquid honey, 1 tsp. paprika, harvesting peeled kernels walnut, salt to taste. Vegetables must be cut into thin strips, add garlic and place them, except for the root crop, in a double boiler for 15 minutes. In the meantime, while the potatoes are cooking, sprinkle the radish with salt, then rinse and dry. After mixing all the ingredients together, put on a beautiful dish and sprinkle with salt and paprika.
Such recipes will easily dilute the gray everyday life and complement your daily diet with new dishes, saturate your body with a lot of useful substances.
Contraindications
Everyone has long known that certain substances and products can be both beneficial and harmful to the body. Despite the fact that the product is simple and affordable, it has its own contraindications that salad lovers need to know.
The main diseases in which eating black radish is undesirable:
- Ulcerative and other severe diseases of the stomach and intestines.
- Serious damage or insufficiency of the kidneys, liver.
- Heart defects.
If you decide to be treated with such a product, first of all, you need to undergo a full examination and consult a doctor. Only after its permission can traditional medicine be used, but if the slightest sign of an allergy or other disorders appears, you should immediately stop using this root crop.
Preamble Beneficial features Species and varieties
Grow and consume radish dishes people began in ancient times. In Egypt, wall paintings have been preserved, which depict a root crop, they fed the builders of the pyramids. In ancient Greece, there was a cult of radish, people made gold items that had its shape and brought them as a gift to the gods.
An overseas vegetable was brought to Russia from Asia. The peasants immediately fell in love with the radish, it was tasty, unpretentious in cultivation, it was easy to harvest it for the winter. From it prepared the second and first courses, as well as medicinal drugs.
Beneficial features
O healing properties Ah, radishes have been known since ancient times. Hippocrates recommended that it be used to treat dropsy and lung diseases. Dioscorides used the root crop in the treatment of coughs and to improve vision. Slavs gave healthy vegetable people with a cold. Nursing mothers were also offered to eat radish dishes, it was believed that it increases the amount of breast milk. It was also used to treat purulent wounds, as well as for pain in the muscles and back.
The healing properties of radish are not forgotten even today.. It is a source of phytoncides that can protect a person from viruses and microbes. The vitamins contained in the root crop are also useful for the body:
- Vitamin A - improves vision;
- Vitamin C - improves immunity;
- Vitamin PP - reduces stress levels;
- B vitamins - improve skin condition.
Healing vegetable is great for diet food, it contains only 36 kcal per 100 grams of product.
The radish contains a lot of fiber, it improves digestion and promotes proper bowel function.
It also has an antispasmodic and sedative effect. Due to the potassium contained in the root crop, it is excellent for the nutrition of people with diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Contraindications
Despite the mass of healing properties, not everyone can eat radish. It is not recommended to eat it during pregnancy. A vegetable can be harmful in diseases:
- Gastritis;
- Ulcer;
- Gout;
- Enteritis;
- Colitis;
- Obstruction of the gallbladder;
- Severe inflammatory processes.
Also, do not eat radish for people who are allergic to it. Before treatment folk methods it is better to consult a doctor, as a vegetable can have a strong effect on the body.
types of radish
Radish is a very common root crop, its different types can be found in almost any summer cottage. Gardeners love an unpretentious vegetable for ease of care and a guaranteed high yield, and cooks for an innumerable variety of recipes.
There are several varieties of radish:
- Green;
- Black;
- Red;
- Daikon (white);
- Chinese;
- Shrovetide;
- Margelan.
Each variety has unique medicinal properties and is of great benefit to the body.
Green
This variety is very popular in Russia due to its pleasant medium-sharp taste and high yield. The root crop has white pulp and a greenish skin. The variety is perfect for long storage and until spring does not lose its taste.
Red
This is the most elegant type of radish. If on the outside it looks like the usual green, then inside it has a flesh of a rich, red color. Because of this, in the South we also call it watermelon radish. The best way its use of course salads. It is in its fresh form that it is most useful. It contains an increased amount of B vitamins and has a positive effect on the condition of the intestines.
Black
This is one of the hottest varieties. It contains a large amount of phytoncides, so it is especially effective in the treatment of colds. Root crops weigh up to 400 g, are stored for a long time and do not lose their medicinal properties.
Daikon
Daikon is very popular in Asian countries. The vegetable is juicy and mild in taste. Root crops can grow up to 60 cm in length, sometimes their weight reaches 4 kilograms. Daikon not suitable for long-term storage, as it dries quickly and loses its taste.
Chinese
This variety is especially popular in Asian countries. The taste of the root crop is juicy and mild. In China, salads, pickled snacks, and first courses are prepared from the root crop. The variety is not suitable for long-term storage.
Shrovetide
Shrovetide radish belongs to early ripening varieties. It is unpretentious and is able to give a high yield on the poorest soils.
Conclusion
Radish is very useful for the body and has long proven its effectiveness in the fight against many diseases.
It contains vitamins and microelements, helps to cope with vitamin deficiency and increase immunity. However, we must not forget that this healing vegetable is not useful for everyone. Before starting any treatment with traditional medicine, you should consult with your doctor.. For those to whom doctors do not forbid this wonderful vegetable, I offer several tasty and healthy recipes with photos with which you can cook a delicious radish salad right now.
