An interesting vegetable is a leek, how to cook it?

Luka, as a rule, often gives vegetablesnot the most prominent place, however, not every hostess can cook a delicious dinner, if inadvertently forget to add it to the roast to the soup. In the onion family, there are many varieties, one of which is a leek. How to cook it and what, we will find out today.

The leek is less bitter than the usualonion, so it can be added to a dish in large quantities. When processed, it will lose its bitterness and give the dish an interesting flavor. Dishes from leeks of leeks turn out to be sweet and tender, and the aroma gives very soft.

So, leek how to cook it? The most elementary salad, which to taste will, of course, only an amateur bow. Take the stem and carefully wash it, you can even remove the first layer of leeks, its white part, to completely get rid of the dirt. Thinly cut the white part with rings, put it in a bowl and beat it with your fingers, so that in the end there was a magnificent onion mass in the bowl. Now we need half a lemon, squeeze the juice of citrus directly into a bowl with onions, add a little olive oil. You can add the same grated green apple. Salad ready!

As you already knew, with a bow perfectly combinedto taste the apple, so the next recipe will also contain it. To begin with, we need to boil hard chicken eggs. We take the onion and cut it with ringlets, put it aside. Now three green apple on a large grater, then the same operation is done with hard cheese and already cooled eggs. All this is laid out layers in a deep dish: onion, apple, eggs, cheese. There was the last touch - fill our salad with a thin stream of mayonnaise, so that it would not be too greasy. Our salad is almost ready, it remains for him only to brew in the refrigerator for about two hours, and can be served to the table.

Incredibly delicious soup can be prepared from onionsleek. So, we need a chicken breast, half a bulb, two carrots, dill - this is for broth. Cook it in the usual way: when the breast boils, reduce the fire, remove the foam and put there vegetables and stalks of dill. Cook on a small fire for about 20 minutes, the broth should be clear and fragrant. Solim to taste.

Now take a separate saucepan with a thick bottom,there we throw pre-cut onions, how to cook further? It's very simple: we throw there the grated carrot and put it all under the lid for a few minutes.
Now we clean two or three potatoes, cut them in small cubes and set separately to boil, so that extra starch leaves. As soon as the potatoes begin to boil, we remove. He should be ready only half.

Our lean leeks and carrots alreadyenough protruded, now we throw there the sweet Bulgarian pepper cut into small cubes and again we close with a lid - it should become soft. While he is preparing, we add a little garlic and the most favorite spices.

As soon as we feel that the roast is already ready,fill it with broth (from which previously extracted the boiled vegetables and chicken meat, of course), throw potatoes there, chop the finely greens and let them brew for a couple of hours.

It should be noted that this is rather whimsicalvegetable - leek, how to cook it, we learned, and what about its storage? He, like any natural product, is prone to decay, and this is not good, so the dishes from this vegetable should be stored in the refrigerator for no more than three days. Raw leeks can lie in a cool place for about seven days, and in the freezer - up to four months.

And by the number of vitamins that are contained inleek, this vegetable confidently overtakes onions. In leek there carotene, and in addition, more vitamins B6, C, B1, B2, PP, E. Because vitamin C, leeks help restore immunity. With prolonged storage, the amount of vitamins in it increases. For about one year of storing dried onions, the content of vitamin C in it rises by a factor of 2.5.

Today we learned a few recipes with leek onion, which will always come by the way to any table, since the dishes with this vegetable are not only delicious and aromatic, but also extremely useful.