What is Jerusalem artichoke? Benefits and harm of his tubers, cooking recipes

If we consider Jerusalem artichoke as a medicinal plant, then all its parts represent value. For example, plant leaves and young stems are used to make medicinal tea, tubers for juice or kvass. However, in addition to medicinal properties, this plant also has a certain nutritional value. True, in cooking they use mostly tubers. Despite the fact that most of the useful properties of this vegetable are known, few people use it because they simply do not know how to prepare Jerusalem artichoke. In fact, there are a lot of very interesting recipes using this useful ingredient.

Autumnal salad from Jerusalem artichoke

In principle, the peeled tubers can be added to any vegetable dish (for example, vinaigrette). They will not give special flavor to the dish, but will make it more useful and vitamin. You can also prepare a light autumn salad from what will be on hand. For example, 100 grams of Jerusalem artichoke tubers are taken with 50 grams of fresh apples, 100 grams of sauerkraut and vegetable oil to taste. Apple and Jerusalem artichoke tinder on a large grater, mixed with sauerkraut and poured with vegetable oil. If desired, you can add salt and ground pepper. The main component of this dish is, of course, Jerusalem artichoke (the benefit and harm of ready-made food depends on other ingredients), and the rest of the products can be replaced to your liking. It can be carrots, greens, various kinds of salad, etc.

In addition to eating in raw form, Jerusalem artichoke (the benefits and harm of this vegetable also depend on the way of cooking), cook, fry, bake and marinate. When heat-treated, tubers partially lose their unique properties, but their taste becomes more vivid and saturated. In some countries, Jerusalem artichoke is dried, ground, and then used in baking, so that bread lasts longer fresh.

Despite the high content of carbohydrates (up to 17.5%), this product is considered dietary, because inulin (polysaccharide, which is a part of tubers) can be consumed by people with various kinds of endocrine diseases. For this reason, and also due to its sweetish taste, among the diabetics, Jerusalem artichoke is so popular. The benefits and harm of the product for people with metabolic disorders in the body is obvious. For some, this is one of the few allowed sources of carbohydrates.

In addition, the composition of Jerusalem artichoke includes amino acids, B vitamins, ascorbic acid and pectins. Fatty acids (which, although in small amounts, but contained in tubers), fiber (very useful for digestion) and a lot of trace elements, starting with potassium and ending with molybdenum, can also benefit the body.

Those who have a stock of this vegetable, and in its raw form, he did not like to taste, you can recommend frying Jerusalem artichoke. The benefits and harms of this dish are ambiguous, because because of the vegetable oil it will be quite fat. And in general fried food is not particularly useful. But it will turn out very tasty. Fry it almost like a potato, peeling and cutting arbitrarily. But the taste of Jerusalem artichoke is more sweet, so many people like it, especially children.