Winter is running out, with the advent of March everyone wants brightness, juiciness and vitamins. The seasonal grocery set of the beginning of spring allows you to supplement the daily diet with usefulness.
Leek
This onion contains vitamins C, B1, B2, trace elements: potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, calcium, and natural antioxidants. However, in its raw form it is not recommended to use it.
Salads, omelets, pies, soups are prepared from leeks.
Egg and Leek Salad
Ingredients:
- eggs: 3 pcs.;
- 15 stalks of leek;
- mustard: 2 tbsp. l .;
- grape or apple vinegar: 2 tbsp. l .;
- any vegetable oil: 100 ml;
- salt, spices: to taste;
- green onions: 2 branches.
Step-by-step cooking instructions:
- Cook eggs, cut coarsely.
- At the leek, remove the hard parts, chop into 5 cm pieces, blanch in salted water for about 2 minutes, drain the liquid.
- For the sauce, mix mustard, vinegar and a couple of tablespoons of water, beat with a blender, then pour in olive oil, salt and pepper, continuing to whisk.
- Put eggs on a plate, leek, season with dressing, garnish with chopped green onions.
Avocado
Avocado is a healthy fruit with an unusual taste. The composition contains a lot of vitamins (B, E, A, C, K), minerals (calcium, potassium, iron, copper, iodine). Useful fruit for people with diseases of the cardiovascular system, digestive tract. It contributes to weight loss, although high-calorie, the fetus does not contain cholesterol.
Avocados have been known to mankind since antiquity. Recently, in the tombs dating back to approximately 750 BC, bones of this fruit were discovered. And some found cave paintings of fruit made more than 12 thousand years ago.
Used for the preparation of salads, fillings for tartlets, spreading on sandwiches, and even in soups.
Sandwiches with Avocado and Cheese
Ingredients:
- avocado: 1 pc.;
- curd cheese: 100 g;
- bread rolls: 4 pcs.;
- dill: 2 branches.
Step-by-step cooking instructions:
- Peel the avocado, extract the bone, cut into thin slices.
- Spread a thin layer of cheese on bread, lay an avocado, sprinkle with chopped dill.
Sorrel
Since this grass appears in the gardens one of the first, it is simply indispensable in the fight against vitamin deficiency. It contains vitamins A, B, C, useful trace elements: iron, fluorine, potassium. Helps with diseases of the eyes, skin, in the fight against insomnia, stress, viruses.
Sorrel is cooked in mashed potatoes, sauces, soups, salads.
Sorrel Cream Soup
Ingredients:
- sorrel: 400 g;
- bow: 1 pc.;
- potatoes: 2 pcs.;
- cream: 150 ml;
- processed cheese: 150 g;
- vegetable oil: 1 tbsp. l .;
- salt, pepper: to taste;
- parsley: 2 branches.
Step-by-step cooking instructions:
- Wash the sorrel, chop. Peel and chop potatoes and onions.
- Put vegetables in boiling water, cook until tender.
- Sorrel in a pan with butter for 5 minutes, then drain the liquid.
- Puree vegetables with sorrel, bring to a boil.
- Add cream cheese, cream, spices and salt, boil for another 5 minutes.
- When serving, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Ramson
This plant is spicy and aromatic, helps with viral diseases, atherosclerosis, is used to strengthen immunity. Add wild garlic in salads, sauces, soups, in pies in the form of fillings.
Wild garlic pesto sauce
Ingredients:
- wild garlic: 1 bunch;
- green onions: 1 bunch;
- Parmesan cheese: 100 g;
- olive oil: 80 ml;
- walnuts: 30 g;
- salt, pepper: to taste.
Step-by-step cooking instructions:
- Wash and dry the wild garlic.
- Kill greens, nuts, grated Parmesan with a blender. Add salt and pepper.
- Fold in a jar and pour olive oil. Store in the refrigerator for a month.
Mint
Thanks to a set of vitamins, minerals and other useful substances, mint perfectly strengthens health and improves well-being.
With regular use of this plant, the following effects are noted:
In ancient Rome, women who sipped wines were threatened with all kinds of punishments, so the ladies hid this offense by drinking wine with mint tincture.
- metabolic acceleration;
- digestion improvement;
- strengthening the nervous system;
- increased vascular elasticity;
- normalization of the hormonal background and the menstrual cycle in women.
Mint is added to various drinks, jams, soups, main dishes, pastries.
Mint Lime Lemonade
Ingredients:
- lime: 1 pc.;
- mint: ½ bunch;
- sugar: to taste;
- water: 1 l;
- ice: optional.
Step-by-step cooking instructions:
- Squeeze juice from citrus.
- Kill mint, lime juice, sugar with a blender.
- Add water and ice.
- At any time of the year you need to maintain the body in good shape. Useful seasonal vegetables, fruits, herbs will always come to the rescue. Today, on the shelves of shops you can find all kinds of products, and cook them with benefit.
Now you know what to cook in March. Of all the recipes offered, at least one or two can be chosen to please the family.
