Useful food - how to cook salad with mustard "Mitterrand ". Why is it good for health?

This culinary invented 250 years ago, and is known in many countries, wherever it exists under different names - like common and popular in the Russian meat dumplings, which are in Italy, for example, appear as ravioli, in Central Asia - a mantle, and in China - Dim Sum -sama.

So, this delicious salad, which now will be discussed - a truly international dish and one of the most successful creations of world cuisine.

As in many countries in southern Russia, he was always very popular, and the rest of our compatriots will be no sin on him to recall - more so in times such as the global crisis ("Eat, dear guests, eat!" At the market everything is expensive. " )

Why is he so good and beneficial, this salad? But now and we'll see. But first - the composition and preparation. And you wonder - so easy? ..

To prepare the salad for a family of 4 persons, we need such
Ingredients:
Tomatoes - 8 pcs.
onions - 2 pcs.
boiled potatoes - 600 gr
vinegar 3% - 4 tbsp. spoon
mustard oil - 4 tbsp. spoons.

Preparation:
Boiled potatoes, tomatoes and onions are chopped.
Prepare the sauce: vinegar mixed with mustard butter and beat with a mixer or whisk until a uniform consistency. Pour the sauce onion, salt and pepper to taste, mix thoroughly and fill with a mixture of chopped tomatoes and potatoes.

Salad is ready! You can apply, of course, sprinkle chopped herbs (parsley, dill, herbs for all tastes). One of the advantages of salad is that it is due to special properties of mustard oil, long lasting freshness.

Vegetables, seasoned with that sauce, do not deteriorate during the 5 days. The main thing - to keep the dish tightly - in a pot, a bank or a salad bowl with a sealed lid. But, of course, the cold or in the refrigerator. So we can not hesitate to prepare salad for future use for a few days!

This salad was appreciated in his time and the royal family of the Romanovs and French President Francois Mitterrand. Russian noble gentry, Italian gourmet and Paris diplomats unequivocally incorporate it into their menus. The French and call it - "Mitterrand with mustard", after it said and was often ordered the president Mitterrand.

It is in mustard oil and is all good and taste of this culinary delight. With mustard oil, salad contains daily norm of all necessary human substances. Obtained by the method of direct extraction oil retains all its natural properties and is a real "pantry" food for health and beauty, and also has a pleasant and mild taste.

Twenty to thirty grams of low-cost, low-calorie product can completely fill the daily human need for polyunsaturated acids. In it - the only vegetable fats contain carotene - the main source of vitamin A for the human body, contains vitamins D, E and B6 (he also contributes to making the last intestinal microflora).

Besides the fact that mustard oil is a valuable nutritious product, it is also a therapeutic drug, possessing a variety of healing properties with a wide range of therapeutic action:
- Promotes weight loss, renewal and rejuvenation of skin cells,
- Thanks to antiseptic and antibacterial properties, shown in wounds, burns,
- Lowers cholesterol, prophylacts cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis,
- Has an effective health-improving effect in the treatment of gastro-intestinal diseases and liver diseases,
- Provides and increases resistance to infections
- Recommended for growth and development of children,
- Helps to increase milk in nursing mothers.

And with all of the above is - one of the most inexpensive oils, which is comparable to useful properties rybemu fat and its expensive counterparts. Meet complement mustard oil and other components of this salad. Medicinal properties of these ingredients are as follows:

In tomatoes contained such important substances as magnesium, potassium, iron, fiber, and vitamins A and C are powerful antioxidants. Antioxidant, lycopene is also conducive to the prevention of cancer. Crude as oil, which we refueled tomatoes, is an activator of these substances.

Juice Natural antibiotic - onions, protects us from colds, activates besides metabolism, stimulates digestion, helps blood and cleanse the blood, removes excess fluid from the body.

Potatoes are rich in starch - an indispensable source of carbohydrates for our bodies. Starch lowers cholesterol, beneficial effect on digestion. It is rich in potatoes and vitamin C. Half a kilo of boiled potatoes provide the body content of ascorbic acid by 100 per cent of daily requirement.

Vinegar for salad desirable to take a natural - a wine, balsamic or apple; just filled in their salads compatriots Mitterrand. Salad is not only a "very French" taste, but this will add vinegar to it and a lot of useful amino acids. In addition, vinegar contributes to faster breakdown of fat and carbohydrates, stimulates metabolism and thus does not increase, and vice versa - reduces appetite, and consequently - it helps us lose weight.

Traditionally the use of mustard oil is not limited to salads. In some southern regions of Russia it is always very widely used in cooking. Potatoes, fried in mustard oil, is especially tasty, juicy and crispy and the fish when frying gets appetizing golden brown.

On the mustard oil can be fried vegetables, use it for canning, and gentle mayonnaise, knocked on the basis of this vegetable elixir becomes particularly culinary value, because - as shown by research scientists of the Institute of Food, mustard oil on the content of nutrients is not inferior to olive oil, and even many expensive products - such as such as red caviar.

But sunflower oil (and even more so - refined and deodorized) is very far from beneficial properties to mustard. And because such a rich source of vitamins at affordable prices in time of crisis - it is indeed a royal gift of grace of nature.