Previously arugula leaves were used only in dried form only as a condiment. But one day an unknown Roman chef decided to try to use fresh leaves of this plant as one of the ingredients in the salad.
To this day, it is not known what prompted the chef to take this step (no dry spices or lack of food), but the fact remains - the rocket fell into the salad. The finished dish cook struck to the heart with its unusual and piquant taste and spicy, but nevertheless delicate aroma.
Since then, much time has passed, much water has flowed, but the rocket not only has not lost its popularity among chefs and cooks, but, on the contrary, has become a very valuable ingredient. It is widely using in the Mediterranean kitchen, added to salads, to pizza to risotto to pasta and even loved by all Italians sauce "pesto". But more often it is possible to meet arugula as an ingredient salad, for example, almost every Italian restaurant can offer its visitors especially famous salad «Insalata di rucola». What caused such popularity of this plant?
It should start with the fact that the leaves of this plant in cooking is called rucola. The beneficial properties of this plant consists in the fact that rocket is almost ideal for quick and quality recovery proper metabolism; it leaves of this plant contain unusually high levels of vitamin C, and iodine. By the way, thanks to its low-calorie content and this salad are ideal as an ingredient in dietary salads. Many nutritionists popular pay tribute rucola: weight loss, the ability to effectively rids the body of cholesterol, increasing the quality level of hemoglobin in the blood tonic effect - what could be better, along with the fact that the rocket is suitable for everybody, because it does not contain allergens.
To the leaves of lettuce were helpful, you need to use them correctly. How to do it? Firstly, it is worth considering the arugula itself is very juicy and very tasty, but it was her juiciness was crucial to this salad caught in kitchens around the world. But at the same time it contributes to the juiciness some inconvenience in cooking: lettuce need not cut and tear the hands. True, there are recipes, which should be used young shoots are using as a basis for a salad as a whole. Second, you can combine the arugula with many products: from cheeses, vegetables, meat, seafood, and so on.. Besides, this salad is fantastic and combined with a variety of sauces. Kings compatibility with arugula is nothing like small cherry tomatoes.
Among slimming diet has become very popular salad with arugula and avocado. To cook it you need:
Ripe avocado - 1-2 pieces,
rocket salad
- 2-3 medium beam young shoots, lemon
- 1 fruit, apple
- One fruit, honey
- 20 ml, red onion - a quarter of the head, mustard
- 30 grams of olive oil
- 2 tbsp. Spoon sunflower seeds (shelled)
- Three full article. Spoon.
Cooking meals start with the sauce: in a suitable container connected lemon juice and olive oil, thoroughly mixed, add the honey and mustard, all thoroughly whipped. Now prepare the ingredients have for the most salad: avocado remove seeds and cut the fruit into small pieces; clean onions and crushed him; apples peeled, cut into small pieces (squares) and moisten with lemon sauce (this is done to avoid darkening of pulp). Wash arugula, leaving it dries off. Then all the ingredients are mixed, add the arugula leaves, sunflower seeds fall asleep, all carefully mixed and seasoned sauce. Ready salad put in the fridge for 5-7 minutes and then served to the table.
There is another good salad with arugula. The recipe for this dish provides for such products: a small bunch of lettuce, large peeled shrimp (400 g), cherry tomatoes - 400 g Parmesan - 50 g balsamic vinegar - 1 tbsp. Spoon of olive oil (1 tbsp. l.), salt and pepper.
Prepare it as follows: fresh shrimp fry on both sides in vegetable oil for a couple of minutes with salt and pepper. Then clean them with excess fat, laying out on a paper towel (the towel). Cherry cut into 2 or 4 parts;
Parmesan cut into thin slices. At the bottom of arugula salad spread, and other components of food. In a separate bowl make sauce from oil, balsamic, salt and pepper: all fluff with a fork until a homogeneous emulsion. Water the salad dressing, which was previously necessary to mix gently.
Indeed, the rocket - an excellent ingredient for salads. With it you can get delicious diet dish filled with essential vitamins and minerals. And it is - a real find for losing weight.
