Chicory medicinal drink (harvesting roots)

[DO NOT!!!!!!!]

Chicory medicinal drink (harvesting roots)

Category: The drinks

Ingredients
Chicory root

Cooking method

• There is a lot of information about the usefulness of this plant on the Internet. Chicory root contains 60% inulin, a polysaccharide that diabetics need to replace sugar. The use of chicory promotes vasodilation, relieves attacks of tachycardia, has a calming effect on the nervous system, and improves the functioning of the digestive system.
• There are recipes for traditional medicine, including chicory, which are used in the treatment of the liver, kidneys, spleen. Chicory also has contraindications.
• Chicory is an excellent general tonic.
• This year, I was the first one allowed to try to prepare the root myself. It is harvested in September-October. The only thing is to recommend digging out after the rain, so that the root is completely pulled out, and not broken. But I didn't wait for the rain, and together with my husband and a shovel went to the bank of the Moskva River. Looking ahead, I will say that the way I did - do DO NOT!!!!!!!
• Not only did I have to drag a heavy bag, then I also had to completely finish the bath, fill 2 trash bins, spend an incredible amount of time processing and, therefore, stay awake until morning. There was a moment when I just wanted to throw everything down the toilet ... but the "hunt" is even worse than "bondage", just out of curiosity, what will happen there, I completed it. But I got ahead of myself considerably.
• In the meantime, we have dug up such huge roots with leaves. With scissors, I cut off the rhizomes separately and separately the leaves, which will go tomorrow for a green cocktail. The leaves are bitter to taste. In V. Butenko's book "Greens for Life" I read it. that bitterness indicates that the plant contains a lot of antioxidants. Like a dandelion. eg. By the way, chicory has absolutely everything healing, and the stem, and leaves, and roots.)
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• Next, you need to cut off the root itself with a white uniform section. What you can't take on the top right photo. This part must be cut off before the white color appears. As a result, you should have such straight "sticks".
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• Therefore, in order to save your strength and nerves, when you go "on business", be sure to take scissors with you, so that you can, in nature, without leaving the "hole", to clean the root to the required state. Well, of course, the thicker the root, the more convenient it will be to clean it in the future. To peel - to scrape like a carrot, it is more convenient with a small knife or a special brush for cleaning vegetables. The result should be a white root. which must be put in a dryer or in an oven preheated to 70C and dried completely.
• If desired, dried chicory pieces can be pan-fried for a "coffee" flavor. I needed it purely medicinally, so I didn't fry it.
• Then grind the root in a coffee grinder.
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• To make a drink from chicory, you need 1 teaspoon of chopped chicory pour 200 ml of cold water, then put on low heat and bring to a boil. After boiling, you need to boil the chicory for 2-3 minutes, then remove from the heat and leave the drink to settle. When the drink has stood a little, strain it and you can drink.
• The drink tastes bitter. No pleasure. And if you also take into account my whole epic with the blank, then I'm not sure that I will decide on such a feat again.)))

Note

CHICORIUM is a food perennial herb 30-120 cm high with a tap, fleshy root and erect stem with a ribbed rough surface, long-ellipsoid, notched-pinnately-separated leaves in a rosette and blue, less often pinkish flower baskets. All parts of the plant contain milky sap. Chicory blooms from late June to September. The plant is a valuable honey plant.

The homeland of chicory is the Mediterranean. As a wild species, it is found in Western Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, India, China, USA, Canada and other countries of the world; in Russia - in the European part, Western Siberia to Altai, in Central Asia, in the Caucasus; grows along the edges of roads, near ditches, in weedy places, pastures, near dwellings, in wastelands. It has long been introduced into cultivation as a root (coffee substitute) and vegetable (tsikorny salad) plant. It is widely cultivated in Western Europe, especially in France. In Russia, the first chicory plantations for industrial processing were laid back in 1804.

Cycorny salad (witloof) is especially actively cultivated in Belgium and Holland; it is not widespread in Russia. The roots and leaves of chicory contain protein substances, fructose, inulin (56-65%), the glycoside intibin (gives the roots and leaves a bitter taste); the roots also contain tannins, vitamins C and B1, choline, and the leaves contain not only vitamin C, but also chicory acid.

The famous chicory powder is prepared from chicory root (the roots are dried, ground into crumbs, fried, as a result the chicory acquires a pleasant taste and aroma, becomes sweet, dark brown in color). Chicory powder is used to prepare surrogate coffee drinks, as well as an additive to natural coffee (0.5 teaspoon chicory per glass to 2 teaspoons of coffee). Chicory powder tincture is used in the preparation of some refreshing soft drinks.

Cycorny salad (fragile light yellow heads of cabbage formed when distilled from roots in greenhouses or in greenhouses without access to light, otherwise they are too bitter and hard) are eaten in winter. Cabbage leaves contain protein, sugar, inulin, mineral salts and intibin. Use the salad raw (prepare green salads, side dishes) or boil and stew. Tsikorny salad is especially useful for people suffering from diabetes.

Ksyusha, you need to erect a monument for such work! Very impressed!

[Omela]

Well yes, Omela, everything is very similar, starting with the shovel and the husband. The work is painstaking. Only we didn’t dig much, so after the "shrinkage, shrinkage" it somehow remained very little. Probably need to wave after him again this weekend, while there is gunpowder in the flasks. I also, in order to save money (maybe this is not true, but somewhere on the Internet I read this) in such a segment of the root with a tree-like rod, I removed the shavings along the edges, that is, I threw out the hard rod, and cut everything off on the sides.

Ksyusha has read everything and is confused. Someone's wrong! It seems like all the honor, but the pictures are out of order! Has misled us. In the photo someone's hands are not yours - your GOLDEN should be, but here is clearly a substitution!

Well, okay, get the bones out of the rose hips ... and this will be "worse", digging and stirring up the roots
Oh, and we know how to create problems for ourselves, especially after a frank admission "The drink tastes bitter. No pleasure. And if you also take into account my whole epic with the preparation, I am not sure that I will decide on such a feat again.)))"

Ksenia - for a feat with roots!

Well, okay, get the bones out of the rose hips ... and this will be "worse", digging and stirring up the roots
Oh, and we know how to create problems for ourselves, especially after a frank admission "The drink tastes bitter. No pleasure. And if you also take into account my whole epic with the preparation, I am not sure that I will decide on such a feat again.)))"

Ksenia - for a feat with roots!

A feat of root or root!

in such a segment of the root with a tree-like rod, she removed chips along the edges,

I had multiple roots where it was possible to do this. But mostly, the roots are soft.young. there was nothing to shoot .. just scratch.

In the photo someone's hands are not yours

Oh, shut up .. I still cut off a piece of my finger with scissors .. and after the water and roots they are now dry.

Very impressed

She's afraid of herself.

Oh, and we know how to create problems for ourselves,

Not for booze, for health! Well, how would I know that for medicinal purposes you can buy at a pharmacy, and drink instant instant!

Not for booze, for health! Well, how would I know that for medicinal purposes you can buy at a pharmacy, and drink instant instant!

Well, yes - you're right!

Ksyusha had to say magic words and pull a hair out of his beard! But my dear is still pleasant to look at your recipes. It's like being part of the beautiful!

It's like being part of the beautiful!

Yes Yes!!!

Omela, you are the heroine ... of my novel, I remember when I dug up horseradish roots, broke a shovel, then also cleaning, washing the roots, I understand thee, but I had several roots. Well done, that she made up her mind and showed us, I am so ni.

[Vika]

Vika, thanks for the support. I most likely too

no no

Ksyusha, well, you give! Did your husband even appreciate your feat?

Manyash, so current for the sake of her husband and did .. with such a face asked: what. throw everything away ??? Go for some acorn coffee.

Mistletoe, I understand you, I also always dig something, pick, rip, collect. girlfriends often twist their fingers at their temples, everything is somehow much easier to everything. They say - why? After all, you can buy? You have nothing to do!
I've also selected grape seeds for several evenings, dried grapes. Everyone likes it, but somehow no one repeats it, although their children really like to eat this.

I dried the acorns, I will fry today. But I didn't dry everything, I allocated only one pallet for the rest of the grapes.

You have nothing to do!

That's exactly what they say !! Only my husband always supports.) And yesterday I caught myself thinking that now there are two thoughts in my head: to ferment and to eat, in the sense of what kind of grass to pick for a green cocktail. In short, maniacs. And I have never dried grapes, I have to try, but what kind of special variety do you take?

And I'm looking forward to the coffee experience.

Oh, I've already played enough with leaves, thanks to Lyudmila, a box with a bunch of jars is worth it. Let's drink now. It was very hot in August, all the leaves became dry, and I calmed down, now we will taste.
I take the grape that grows from the parents, disappears, a lot of it. Moldova seems. Large black. We have it cheap, it grows in every yard. I cut each grape in half and take out the seeds and into the dryer. Today I will still make juice in a juicer. I mix with Isabella for juice.

Mistletoe, I understand you, I also always dig something, pick, rip, collect. girlfriends often twist their fingers at their temples, everything is somehow much easier to everything. They say - why? After all, you can buy? You have nothing to do!

The anecdote recalled:
A neighbor comes in, and I'm peeling bell pepper. Asks - why? I answer - I'll freeze it, and in winter I'll stuff it. The neighbor's answer killed - "Well, you're a lazy person! Is it hard to go to the store and buy something ready?"

Omela, you are the heroine ... of my novel, I remember when I dug the roots of horseradish, broke a shovel

SISTER! I also broke my boot!
In general, we are all here a little freaking with oddities, we constantly invent yummies for ourselves and we ourselves bring them to life, I am already silent about the number of different kitchen tricks, because of which even some relatives look askance at me, but this is only for people who are actually themselves, to put it mildly , not in myself - well, what a normal woman would feed her family with all kinds of store stuff and also flaunt it

Yes, my grapes are a dream.) We have imported ones. (Marina (Leska) also taught me to make a nourishing tonic for the skin from grapes. You just need a green seedless one.Grind with a blender with a glass of liquid - infusion of chamomile, calendula, green tea. Pour into small molds and freeze. Wipe your face in the morning. Do not rinse, blot the remains with a saline. I did it last year. It will be necessary to prepare again.

In general, we are all here a little freaking weird.

That is not the right word !!!)) And it’s in the blood, apparently. and incurable! I'm just wondering where all these ideas and Wishlist come from. It seems that we already know so much and we have from the kitchen pribluds, but no, something new will definitely come out and directly khachunImagu.) Clinic, karach.)

There is also pitted green. We call it raisin. I also want such a tonic. We must do it.
And I don’t throw away grape seeds. I saw in the transfer of one they did something with them, either a mask, or a scrub, it is necessary to look, there is no time now, while I only collect bones.

That year my husband's niece came, tried dried grapes, but she doesn't eat raisins at all, we even bake her cake separately without raisins, and she liked these grapes so much, I poured her a little home and say, let my mother do you, I will give you grapes, take a dryer, they live in the next house. The mother-in-law lives with them, she told me that the little one asked and asked, and my mother says, I have nothing to do, or something, she never did. And there is time, there is no second small child like me, they have one daughter. I don’t understand this, my children tried it, I see what they like, so I try to prepare more. Although, maybe she is right, she devotes more time to herself, to each his own.

Useful bones, I also read. Still there is oil from grape seeds. Well, you can make a scrub with them.) On winter long evenings.)

Useful bones, I also read. Still there is oil from grape seeds. Well, you can make a scrub with them.) On winter long evenings.)

Yes, I have oil, it is good for the skin.

[Omela]

Well, you can make a scrub with them.) On winter long evenings.)

Presented: a long winter evening, sitting in armchairs by the fireplaceOmelaand annnushka27drink a medicinal drink made of chicory and (or) acorn coffee and peeled off in grape seeds make a very healthy and natural grape seed scrub
I want to visit you !!!!!!

Presented: a long winter evening, Omela and annnushka27 are sitting in armchairs by the fireplace, drinking a medicinal drink from chicory and (or) acorn coffee and splashing in grape seeds

U! Would decrease!
Quitters, it's hard for them to go to the store for a grape seed scrub!

Oh, another party girl rode up! Sit down to the light - we are eight paws eight times the size of a scrub, we will open a joint venture, we will earn money, and with the proceeds we will buy some new kitchen pribluds.

I want to visit you !!!!!!

Yes .. You'd better come to us ..)))

Shaw, Lenchik, get the rolling pin ???

we are eight paws eight times more scrub,

Gee, I have here just "EIGHT PAWS" from morning to evening something is sculpted! You bastards!

Shaw, Lenchik, get the rolling pin ???

Oh, do you have an extra one? Give, eh! Otherwise, I'll break mine about these macaques soon ... or they'll gnaw nafik!
Together with me!

Do not touch the children !!! Look, not a mother, echidna !!!

[Omela]

Omela, thanks for the invitation! Lenk, you have fun there, but I also want a rolling pin - I have already ordered my husband a long and thin one, even though my is too small for me
Girls, you are just a sea of ​​positive, how can I love you all !!!! especially Melka, for what she does not fight for flooding

Look, not a mother, echidna !!!

Is it me echidna ?! And hto clamped the rolling pin for the orphan children? Sinister!
Give it back, gru, rolling pin! Or wait for them ... I'll break the ax! Karauuuul!
That's it, I ran, the buzz is over, woke up! Hospadya, have mercy!

[Omela]

Omela, It was necessary to fry the roots in a pan until the smell of coffee appeared, then dry them in the oven and grind.The drink turns out to be very tasty, but the truth settles to the bottom, but very little and cannot be compared with the purchased one. Unfortunately, all our chicory grows along the roads and we have gathered very little, almost all of it has already been drunk. Try your fry it might still work out

[Galina]

Galina, thanks for the clarification. I just felt that there was a catch in some place.)) There is actually nothing to fry, I ground it and mixed it with acorn coffee. I went fine.
shl. and I am not ready to "repeat the feat" on collection and preparation.

To peel - it is more convenient to scrape like a carrot with a small knife or a special brush for cleaning vegetables. As a result, you should get a white root. which must be put in a dryer or in an oven preheated to 70C and dry completely.

I see that the theme of chicory did not catch on, but I could not resist commenting. If we consider chicory as a coffee substitute, then too many unnecessary movements are described. I make it much easier. I try to dig only mature roots. I dig it out, chop it off with a shovel or scissors for metal. By bending the root in half, I extract the core. There is no sense in it. I leave only the skins, which I wash in a basin without any scraping.
It is better to fry in the oven, because when frying in a frying pan, you have to stir frequently and, as a result, brown dust throughout the kitchen. It remains to pass through a fine-mesh meat grinder, or grind in a coffee grinder.