"Earth pear" or Jerusalem artichoke - recipe by recipe

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Topinambur tubers, more like a potato than a pear, found their consumer in Russia in the middle of the 17th century. Jerusalem artichoke was originally used as a useful, healing plant. Europeans learned about its existence much earlier, but neither the British nor the French paid much attention to this vegetable. Just missing

ala cooking practice. But the Belgians and the Netherlands, who gave Jerusalem artichoke the name "underground artichoke", began to cook it in wine, adding butter. Over time, the Russians began to use Jerusalem artichoke in cooking. The recipe for fried Jerusalem artichoke is extremely simple and resembles an ordinary fried potato.

Weed or valuable product

Appearing in the garden, Jerusalem artichoke tries to "capture" most of it. It's hard to get rid of it. Many gardeners consider it a weed and evenare fighting with him, uprooting from year to year. But this plant is not a weed. It has healing properties. Jerusalem artichoke roots are not afraid of frost. In the spring, you can get vitamins and microelements by eating raw peeled Jerusalem artichoke. Everyone would like to know the recipe for a dish that burns fat, lowers blood sugar and replenishes the body with potassium and iron. But he is not. But all this can be achieved simply by eating peeled Jerusalem artichoke in its raw form. Squeezed Jerusalem artichoke juice lowers acidity. You can add Jerusalem artichoke to vegetable soups, omelettes, puree soup. The recipes for these dishes are very accessible.

1. Cabbage and Jerusalem artichoke cutlets

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs;
• 500 grams of cabbage;
• sunflower oil;
• 100 ml. cream;
• s alt;
• flour;
• Jerusalem artichoke.

Cooking recipe: washed root crop is rubbed on a coarse grater and mixed with finely chopped cabbage, cream. The mixture is stewed in a saucepan under the lid for about 10 minutes. After that, it is combined with eggs and flour so that a homogeneous mass is obtained. Cutlets are formed from the finished minced meat, which, rolled in breadcrumbs, are fried in sunflower oil.

2. Jerusalem artichoke baked with egg

Cooking recipe: peeled 200 gr. chop the root and fry in butter. Put in a heat-resistant dish or on a small baking sheet and pour one egg, beaten with 50 gr. sour cream. Sprinkle grated cheese on top and bakeoven for half an hour.

3. Jerusalem artichoke baked in the oven

In a peeled tuber, a recess is made, where a small piece of butter is placed. Prepared tubers are placed in a mold and baked in the oven for about twenty minutes. This dish is used as a side dish.

4. Jerusalem artichoke salad

The recipes for these salads are as varied as they are simple. To prepare each of them, the root vegetable is grated, everything else is added in accordance with the lists of ingredients below:

• grated radish or radish, green onion, salad dressing;
• boiled egg, s alt, green onions, sour cream or mayonnaise;
• carrots and celery root, grated, onion, sour cream or mayonnaise;
• beets, carrots, pickles, diced, onions, sunflower oil.

If you have a dacha or your own house, get this wonderful root crop at your place, giving it a place along the fence. You will be provided with vitamins and minerals for the whole winter and spring. In addition, the Jerusalem artichoke planted in this way will not let "alien" weeds into the garden. But this is a completely different topic.