Recipes
Chicory has long been known as a substitute for coffee. Those who are coffee contraindicated should be fine drinks from chicory root. However, even perfectly healthy people to increase appetite, improve digestion and eliminate the negative effects of stress from time to time recommend to add a little chicory to tea or coffee.
Now chicory in many countries is very popular as a tasty condiment and healthy food.
Coffee with the addition of chopped roasted chicory root has long been one of the favorite drinks of Europeans. A beverage made by chikory root with milk or cream, as the most useful substitute for coffee, often included in the diet of both children and people who look for their health or who for health reasons coffee is contraindicated.
Estonia is prepared from chicory - egg coffee. Chicory flavored fruit and berry tea. Also in the Estonian chicory roots are used for inulin, fructose, as well as for production of alcohol (alcohol yield of chicory higher than those from potato, and its quality is better). Chicory is especially valuable in dietary diabetics. Widely used in food industry for production of sweets and cakes.
The Belgians also chicory baked with cheese or apples, Latvian residents often prepare a cold drink from chicory root with honey, lemon and apple juice.
Of soluble or roasted ground chicory can also prepare delicious bracing drinks, useful both adults and children.
As chicory seasonings can be added to various kinds of home-baked to give it a delicious coffee and nutty taste, pleasant aroma and color (for this instant or roasted chicory must first dissolve in a little water or water with milk).
Chicory can be used in salads. Purified chicory root, cut the main part of the core, because it is most bitter. Then chicory cut into thin slices, mixed with sliced tomatoes, sprinkled with oil and salt. Ready salad seasoned with sugar and lemon juice. Instead of tomatoes, you can use peas. This salad is suitable for herring. You can do differently. Prepared as described above, the roots of chicory mixed with mayonnaise, salt, added sugar and decorate with parsley.
Here are some simple recipes and delicious drinks on the basis of chicory:
Cold drink with chicory and lemon
Tsikorny drink with milk
Tea from chicory
Chicory has long been known in Europe and gained its popularity there. From it is prepared fine drinks. We suggest you make one of the most delicious drink-drink "Dolce Vita" for this excellent recipe.
Dolce Vita
Products for a drink "Dolce Vita": 4 teaspoons of sugar, 0.5 teaspoons ground ginger 5 teaspoons Chicory, 50 ml of egg liqueur, whipped cream to taste.
To prepare the drink, "Dolce Vita" in the pots, place the sugar and heat over low heat until caramels states (color sugar should be light brown), pour water (2 tablespoons), add the ginger and simmer for a minute (to a state of syrup).
Separately, chicory and brew to taste and mix it with syrup.
In a tall glass pour liquor, and then drink from chicory with syrup and garnish with whipped cream.
In Latvia, chicory cooked a delicious cold drink.
Cold drink
Water boiled with endive (or diluted with boiling water concentrate), add honey and stir to completely dissolve the honey. Per serving pour 3 / 4 cup or wine glass and add the chicory and drink lemon juice. At the edge of the glass you can attach a slice of lemon.
In folk medicine, chicory used since ancient times. The roots of chicory are mentioned in the writings of Pliny, Forekalya, Theophrastus. Analysis of prescription formulations of ancient Arab and Armenian medicine indicates that chicory was a member of various drugs that are used to treat wounds, diseases of the digestive system and liver. Ibn Sina used chicory for the treatment of diseases of the stomach and bowels, fever, inflammation of the eye, and as a means of quenches thirst. He recommended applying to the joints in gout and the bites of scorpions, snakes and lizards bandages soaked in a decoction of chicory.
In our time, chicory also has not lost its relevance as a drug. Preparations of chicory has antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, diuretic, sedative, astringent and stimulant appetite for action. They exert regulatory influence on metabolism, increase the number of heart activity and reduce sweating.
Chicory won the greatest popularity as a means to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver, including cirrhosis.
Infusion of chicory, prepared as follows:
per tablespoon crushed roots take 0.5 liters of water and take half a cup 3-4 times daily before meals.
Infusion recommended for liver diseases, especially during recovery from viral hepatitis.
Infusion of chicory root has dietary properties, and therefore recommended for overweight and other metabolic disorders, and gastrointestinal tract.
Chicory stimulates choleresis, relaxes smooth muscle:
2 tbsp. chopped chicory roots pour 2 cups water and simmer for 30 minutes, to insist 30 minutes, drain. Take 1 / 2 cup 3 times daily before meals.
As external funds infusion of chicory
2 teaspoons crushed root per 200 ml of boiling water, is used to treat eczema, boils, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis.
In these diseases appoint fitoapplikatsii for 20-30 minutes daily for 3-5 days to reduce inflammation and drying up weeping surface. Decoction of roots and alcohol tincture is used for washing wounds and abrasions, do fitoapplikatsii with seborrheic dermatitis and allergic, acute manifestations of eczema and other acute inflammatory conditions. On the basis of chicory produce drugs-conditioners to help with thinning hair and oily scalp.
When diathesis in children:: lotions, douches - 4 tbsp. chopped chicory roots, sugar and 1 cup hot water, boil for 30 minutes, cool 10 minutes, drain and squeeze. Take a bath at night. The procedure is repeated 2-3 times.
It is used for enlargement of the spleen as a tonic, sedative, analgesic and eliminate tumor agent: 2 g chicory root pour 1 cup boiling water, brew, encased, 30-40 minutes, drain. Take 1-2 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day. You can use the extract of chicory, which is sold in the store: 1 / 4 -1 / 3 teaspoon to 1 cup of boiling water, stir and drink like tea with honey or sugar.
When treating eczema. make 2-3 cups of broth per day: 1 tbsp. spoon mixture of chicory (root), Dandelion, watches, fennel, buckthorn bark 20 g sugar and 1 cup of boiling water, keep a water bath 15 minutes. Strain, squeeze out the remaining mixture. Volume brought to 1 cup.
In diseases of the lungs, as well as for the prevention of bronchitis and laryngitis is recommended to combine the use of drugs based on chicory with the campaigns in the bath. Take a chopped chicory root and mix with the leaves of Leonurus a 1:1 ratio. Brew 3 tablespoons of this mixture, 2 cups boiling water and drink a cup of broth in the bath as a tea.
Thanks to the substances that regulate abnormal metabolism, chicory can be used as an adjuvant treatment for obesity. Those who want to get rid of extra pounds, it is advised to take half a glass of infusion of chicory (1 tablespoon of crushed roots for 0.5 liters of water) 3-4 times daily before meals.
Due to the abundance of potassium chicory root is useful for people suffering from diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
When an arrhythmia can help this recipe:
1 teaspoon minced chicory roots pour 2 cups water, bring to a boil. Infuse over 1-2 hours under the hood. Strain, add 1 teaspoon of honey. Take 1 / 2 cup 3 times daily before meals.
