How to eat amaranth?

Nature gives man a lot of food, which only needs to be properly prepared. Amaranth in this list is not considered the most popular product, and in fact it is very useful for the body and can be a good replacement for rice.To eat the seeds of a plant, you need to properly prepare them.

Amaranth is a seed originally from South America and Asia. It has a light brown tint. In ancient times it was cooked like rice, today it is used as a side dish for meat and fish. This plant exists on the earth more than 5 thousand years. Today, there are about 60 different varieties. It was first grown by the Mayans and Aztecs.

Amaranth is completely unpretentious, but loves a lot of sun and moist soil. It is also grown commercially in the fields, because people use seeds not only for food, but also use them as animal feed.

Kharkiv is considered an excellent fodder grade, which is easily processed into silage, make flour and bake even bread and buns. He also has healing properties. To obtain a large amount of grain, amaranth “Giant” is planted on the plantations.

Getting well cooked is not easy. In finished form, the seeds must be strongly boiled, sticking together, if they are grainy and coarse in taste, it means they are raw.

In the seeds of this plant a lot of protein, so it quickly quenches hunger. Slightly nutty flavor - a distinctive feature of this cereal, from which you can cook soups, cook porridge.

Amaranth can be eaten in different ways. You can simply boil and make couscous or a special pilaf. Sweet porridges are very tasty, since the special structure of the grain to be cooked makes them thick and rich.

Amaranth is also used as breading and even in vegetable cutlets. Often the seeds of a plant are ground into flour, from which cookies and other sweets are baked. In South America, they make different cereals for breakfast, and in Mexico they make sweets. The leaves are also edible and can be used as spinach. Cookers around the world never cease to amaze with complex recipes using this product.

You can harvest not only the seeds, but also the greens of the plant. It is finely chopped and frozen or dried in the sun. You can salt and pickle the product. For salting per kilogram of seeds should be no more than 200 grams of salt. Greens, like seeds, are already salted, rammed into a glass jar and covered with a lid. This mixture can be used as an additive to different dishes.

If you want to cook amaranth as a porridge for breakfast, then you need a deep pan. Grains are cooked on low heat, otherwise they will sink to the bottom.

You can cook in milk, water and even apple juice. On a glass of cereals need 1.5 cups of liquid. In the first stage, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat, cover with a lid and extinguish until the water is absorbed, about 20 minutes. You can add a little butter, fruit, nuts, cinnamon, honey or vanilla.

You can cook a soup that is not only tasty and nutritious, but also useful. This will require:

• amaranth seeds;
• several potatoes;
• onions and carrots;
• greenery.

Soup can be cooked in meat or vegetable broth. The amaranth is laid out first in the water, it must be boiled for 10 minutes so that it can boil well. Add finely chopped potatoes, boil for another 10 minutes. While everything is cooked, you can fry in sunflower oil. Dump the carrots on a grater and first spread them on the pan, when it gets a golden hue, add finely chopped onions. After 5 minutes, the pan is removed from the heat and poured zazharku in broth. A few minutes is enough for her to give her taste to the soup.

Turn off the gas, add finely chopped greens:

• dill;
• parsley;
• green onions.

The dish should brew a little, and it can be served hot on the table.

If the cereal becomes a side dish for meat or fish, then it is boiled exclusively in water, slightly salted.

It will take:

• amaranth cup;
• 3 cups of water;
• pan;
• ½ tsp salt.

Amaranth is a grain that needs to be prepared thoroughly. If it doesn’t boil well, then no one will eat such a mess. Begin the process of preparing the grain by pouring it into a pot of water. For best results, use a medium sized pot.

Before you turn on the fire, you need to add about half a teaspoon of salt and mix well until completely dissolved. Now you can put the pot on the fire. The grits should boil over high heat, then reduce to minimum. You do not need to immediately cover with a lid, because the water can just run away and fill the burner. It is installed on the pan after the fire is reduced.

Cooked porridge for 25 minutes, this time is enough to soak all the water into the grain. When the moisture does not remain, taste the porridge, if it is still very grainy, it is better to add a little liquid and boil more. Simple water can be replaced with any broth, add a little zazharki at the end of it, or just butter, this garnish will be even tastier and richer.

It is good to eat amaranth. Often it can be found in a flower bed as an ornamental plant, but not every housewife knows that the plant is edible. It is used to make useful bran, and in general, the scope of amaranth is extensive.

The benefits of amaranth, you will learn from the following video.