In article it is told about useful nutritious and medical properties of olive oil. Besides, ways and area of its application are given.
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Olive trees started to grow up in Greece, to be exact, on the island of Crete, approximately in the 3500th year B.C. It was an important part of that now is called as economy. Olive oil was not only foodstuff, it widely used in medicine. Called it in those days liquid gold.
Till rather recent time olive oil was on sale in drugstores in small small bottles as medicine. Today more and more people began to replace in kitchen with olive oil other fats.
Olive oil, along with coffee and cheeses parmesan and a mozzarella, belongs to the most known products in modern Italy. Italians water with olive oil everything that only it is possible, for it not only very tasty, but also very useful.
It is considered that consumption of olive oil reduces risk of cardiovascular diseases. The Oleynovy acid containing in olive oil, protects an organism from a cancer of a breast. Italians in the majority look quite blossoming, and the merit of olive oil in it can’t be underestimated! Still scientists consider that is useful not only olive oil, but also its property – to strengthen useful qualities of other products. So, for example, it is considered that tomatoes promote resilience of an organism to cancer cages, and olive oil in tens times increases this useful quality of red vegetable. Operates, as a resolvent, it is capable to cure a headache.
If tortured arthritis, prepare warm drink from one tablespoon of the olive oil mixed and a half a teaspoon of grated garlic and a glass of boiling water. Drink in the mornings and to evenings to get rid of pain. Also rub a mix, from olive oil with a garlick powder. You will feel, as pain recedes.
Store oil in a cool dark place, but not in the refrigerator – there it grows turbid. About 18 months are stored, but don’t forget about oil in a case, and daily use of.
Submit with olive oil svezheotvarenny macaroni; sbryzgivajte oil vegetable soups for additional aroma; obvalivajte in oil just boiled vegetables, season with black pepper and fresh lemon juice; use it for pickling of olives. Merge a brine in which they were on sale, add the crushed garlic cut or and fresh herbs, for example, rosemary. Pickle within 2 hours.
Replace butter olive in hot mashed potatoes; bake on olive oil meat and fish on a grill; make tasty canapes. Dry a piece of a baguette on the one hand, rub it with garlic and sbryznite olive oil. From above put slices of the tomatoes baked by pepper or tinned white haricot.
It is necessary to consider that at thermal processing, and also on light it loses the main food and medical properties. To use it follows without thermal processing, for example, in the form of filling for salads.
Tomatoes in a Provencal way
Tomatoes ripe – 8 pieces, oil olive – 2 tablespoons, parsley greens, garlic – 2 cloves, mayonnaise, salt.
Tomatoes wash out, carefully cut off the top part. With a teaspoon remove a part of pulp with seeds. Slightly salt tomatoes.
Parsley wash out, dry, small cut and rastolkite together with garlic and olive oil. Salt to taste.
Fill tomatoes with the prepared forcemeat and sustain within 1-2 hours. When giving water from above with mayonnaise.
(On Kommunist newspaper materials).