Bitter Salads

These are chicory salads, although the root chicory in I write as a salad is not used. He takes only the root, which is dug up in the autumn, washed, dried, chopped to make chicory - additives to coffee and coffee surrogate.

Chicory can be sown in the spring directly to the ground, between berry or ornamental bushes. In the second year the plant blooms with bright blue numerous flowers. The plant is tall, unattractive, but its bright flowers look attractive. This fall, you can dig up the roots, and you can leave the chicory grow as a decorative perennial. Leaves of all chicory salads contain glycoside intibin, which gives salads a bitter taste. When whitening leaves, bitterness practically disappears. In the writing as salads are used chicory salads - vitluf, endive and escaril.

Witloof

Perennial from the family of astroves, we are cultivated as a biennial. In the first year gives root and a rosette of leaves, the second blooms and gives seeds. Vitlouf is valuable in that it makes it possible to make winter pasture from summer roots grown in summer.

In open ground it is sown late, in late May or early June. He prefers loosely loamy or loamy soils with a neutral reaction, rich in organic matter and pure from weeds.

By autumn, the vitluf forms a powerful rosette of leaves and roots, for the formation of which it requires a rather large area of ​​feeding - 20 x 30 cm, so it should be sown sparingly.

I do not use summer leaves in Witloaf. Late in autumn, but before the onset of frost, they are cut off, leaving 3-4 cm above the roots. Root crops are excavated and stored in the cellar or the bottom compartment of the refrigerator in polyethylene bags or boxes with soil in an upright position. But the vitluf can winter and directly in the soil, it is enough to fill the roots of the earth's shoulder with a height of 20 cm, previously cutting off the leaves.

After a month and then during the whole winter it is possible to make a salad out of the root. For this, it is required to remove it from the storage and keep it at room temperature( up to 18 degrees).

Root crops should be placed in bags and covered with soil.

Of the sleeping buds on the roots, the baby buddies quickly begin to grow. As soon as they appear above the soil, they must be digged and cut. They are used for food. You can eat kotanchiki vitluf in raw form, making a salad from them, you can boil it, you can put it out.

Vitlouf is a valuable dietary product, it contains carbohydrate inulin, so it is recommended for diabetics. In addition, it contains vitamins, mineral salts.

Vitlouf regulates digestion, beneficially affects the pancreas, liver and circulatory system.

Endiviy and escaril

This is also a chicory salad from the family of astroves. They are sown in early spring in the ground. Since they form a large basal rosette of leaves, they require a large area of ​​food - 20 x 30 cm - and a soil rich in organic. In addition, the soil should have a neutral reaction. When a large rosette of leaves grows, a few days before harvesting it is collected in a bundle and tied up or simply covered with a dark material, for example a black spunbond. This is done for whitening the leaves, in which the bitterness decreases substantially. Endive and escarole are often used in raw form, but they can also be stewed and boiled. They are very useful, but, unfortunately, we are not too common.

To improve vision with myopia it is useful to drink juice made from carrots, parsley and endivia in a 1: 1 ratio: 1.