How to remove bitterness from arugula. All about the beneficial properties of arugula. Salad with arugula and shrimps

Zira talks about the benefits of arugula, why it is bitter and how to avoid it, how to cook and choose it.

Weed or superfood?

Arugula has several names: rocket salad, indau, eruka, arugula, and caterpillar. It has been known since the time of the Roman Empire and is very popular in Europe and America - they even call it superfood there.

In Uzbekistan, massive cultivation of arugula began only in 2016. Although in many countries it grows like a weed, in our climate it must be carefully monitored, protected from the hot sun and watered frequently. By the way, due to the fact that arugula is a weed, it can be easily grown in a pot on a windowsill.

How useful is arugula?

How did arugula earn the title of superfood? Firstly, it has a lot of calcium and iron, which are necessary for the health of our bones and blood. Secondly, it protects cells from aging, normalizes the water-salt balance, energizes and calms the nerves. Arugula is good for digestion, lowers blood pressure, fights microbes and bad cholesterol.

Finally, arugula is an ideal product for those who are on a diet. It contains a lot of fiber and few calories, it gives a long feeling of satiety and does not add extra centimeters at the waist. 100 grams of arugula contains only 25 kcal, 0.7 grams of fat, 2.6 grams of protein and 3.7 grams of carbohydrates.

Why is arugula bitter?

Many do not like arugula because of its specific smell and spicy taste. The point is that it contains essential oils- for example, mustard oil is responsible for the sharpness. The longer the arugula grows, the more this oil accumulates in it.

If you do not like the bitterness of arugula, choose young grass with small tender leaves. They have a mild flavor, more like a nut than mustard. If arugula leaves are longer than 10-12 centimeters, they will be sharper and more bitter.

And further interesting fact- in hot summer, arugula will be more bitter than in spring. During the heat, it accumulates sharpness, especially if it is not watered often enough.

How to get rid of bitterness?

It will not be possible to completely get rid of the bitterness of arugula, but you can soften its taste. Here are some ways:

• soak the grass in salted water for 20-30 minutes, then rinse it in cold water and dry.
• scald with boiling water and immediately rinse in very cold water.
• add neutral-tasting foods to the salad with arugula: lettuce, spinach, avocado, chicken. Tomatoes and cheese also mask the bitter taste well.
• make a dressing of lemon juice, honey and olive oil, you can use balsamic vinegar.

How to cook arugula?

Have you ever wondered why some recipes say that the grass must be torn with your hands, and not cut with a knife? All due to the fact that in contact with metal, arugula oxidizes and loses its beneficial and taste properties.

Do not leave salad with arugula for tomorrow. The leaves will secrete juice and wither - the salad will lose its benefits, taste and appearance. That is why arugula is not advised to be stored for longer than 1 day: it fades very quickly and loses its benefits.

You can cook anything with arugula. It is best, of course, to cook salads with it - for example, with, s , s .

The second reason why arugula can be bitter is its improper cultivation. Arugula loves the cold. And it happens that they grow it in the heat and in such adverse conditions the plant does not gain green mass, but sits in one pore. Several weeks pass, the plant ages, but does not grow. if you add bad watering to this, then such a plant is doomed to taste bitter.

How to get rid of bitterness in arugula

First way. Soak arugula in salted water before use. After half an hour, drain this water and rinse the leaves under clean, running water. Be sure to dry the arugula with paper towels.

Second way. Boiling water will also help remove bitterness. scald the leaves hot water and rinse immediately under cold, running water.

Third way. And if you grow arugula yourself, then this life hack is just for you. If, growing leaves are covered with something dark that does not let through sunlight, after 1-2 days the leaves will become pale green, lose all bitterness, but retain all useful trace elements and vitamins.

Arugula leaves are bitter and got the best answer

Answer from Yatiana F.[guru]
Arugula should be bitter. In Italy, it grows like a weed and in garden beds as a cultivated plant. Therefore, the taste differs. It is necessary to tear it apart, salt it, sprinkle it with vinegar or lemon juice, let it brew, and then eat it, using it in salads or pizzas in small quantities, and not pood armfuls

Answer from User deleted[guru]
Arugula initially has a slightly bitter taste. fresh is almost not noticeable in bitterness. Balsamic vinegar and olive oil are the classics for arugula, softening its slight bitterness! Only fresh leaves are slightly bitter... So you bought stale arugula!

Answer from Denis Baskov[newbie]
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Answer from Laura ******[guru]
sprinkle with wine vinegar then olive oil and the bitterness of mustard turns out, it is pleasant, it's not a simple lettuce leaf

Answer from Mikhail Belyaev[active]
I grow on a windowsill. Personal conclusions. My bitterness appeared due to the flowering stage. As soon as the bud began to form, bitterness began. You can determine by the color of the leaves - dark green and more torn - everything will be bitter. Light green, weak, dead - not bitter. What should she be? Well, it depends on the dish. If the main filling in the salad is arugula, then of course it is not bitter. And if it goes like a seasoning, for example, to pizza, then it’s not large quantities and must be bitter and sharp. Or prepare salad dressing - then of course on spicy mustard arugula. In olive oil, 1 whole hot pepper. Basil, arugula and garlic head - roughly chopped. Infuse for a week turning over ... also as an option for a Greek salad ... For me it turns out so bitter more economical)). Well, instead of an armful in a salad, 1 leaf is enough. I freeze the rest...

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Arugula salad is in our kitchen today. The benefits and harms of this plant will be discussed in our article. After studying the material, you will have no doubt that you will use this amazing herb often in your kitchen, when preparing delicious and healthy meals.

This herb of the cruciferous family, and the cruciferous family, as you know, includes all types of cabbage, it is also a relative of broccoli. For a long time, everyone thought it was grass, and in Russia it was called Caterpillar. Arugula Salad: beneficial features And the recipes are below.

So, a miracle herb that Russians consider a weed and trample under their feet, in order to later, for big money, buy in some kind of supermarket, this herb with a nut-mustard-pepper flavor has become known all over the world among gourmets and is now widely used to create delicious salads.

The beneficial properties of arugula are as follows: since arugula is a direct relative of broccoli, it contains substances called glucosinates, these substances affect cancer cells, destroying them without giving cancer cells develop in our body, it also contains substances that affect viruses that cause papilomas in humans, more great content vitamin K, which is involved in our body in the blood coagulation system, without which we absolutely could not live.

Vitamin K, which arugula is so rich in, prevents damage to neurons and also partly affects the course of Alzheimer's disease in a positive sense, of course, and it is widely used for weight loss, since it consists almost of water, very watery grass and therefore completely non-caloric.

How to choose the right arugula for salad

When buying, pay attention to the color and size of the grass, arugula leaves should be small and bright green in color, you do not need to buy yellow and large leaves, these are old and completely unsuitable for food leaves.

How to keep arugula fresh in the refrigerator

To store weed, take a paper bag or just clean paper, remove or wrap dry, clean arugula in it and put it in the refrigerator for a maximum of four days, no more.

And the most good way storage is to put it like a bouquet of flowers in a glass of water and then in the refrigerator, so you need to store any greenery.

Arugula salad - recipes with photos are simple and delicious

Salad with arugula and shrimps

Ingredients:

• Arugula - 40 g;
• Cherry tomatoes - 3-4 pieces;
• Shrimps - 80-100 g;
• Parmesan cheese - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• Garlic - 2 cloves;
• Olive oil;
• Salt.

Cooking process:

It will be a classic Italian shrimp and arugula salad. Pour olive oil into a frying pan and set to heat up on gas.

As soon as the pan is hot, put the garlic in it, put it completely with whole cloves, you don’t need to cut or crush it, because we only need garlic for flavor and put the shrimp, they need to be fried on both sides until golden brown.

Put the finished shrimp on a napkin so that excess fat is absorbed into it, and as soon as they have cooled down a bit, you need to make longitudinal cuts on the shrimp from the middle to the end of the tail, you should get something like a fan.

Arugula leaves put in a container convenient for mixing, cut cherry tomatoes there, you just need to cut them into halves, pour olive oil, salt and send our shrimps, mix everything. Arrange the salad on a platter and top with grated parmesan.

Salad with arugula and cheese

Ingredients:

• Arugula - 50 g;
• Cherry tomatoes - 4 pcs.;
• Honey - 1 tsp;
• Hard cheese - 50 g;
• Balsamic vinegar - 1 tsp;
• Olive oil - 3-4 tsp;
• Salt pepper.

How to cook salad with arugula and cheese:

Let's prepare the dressing first. Better take liquid honey and add one teaspoon of balsamic vinegar, stir it all so that our honey melts, becomes thinner and combines with vinegar.

Now add three tablespoons of olive oil and mix well. This mixing process needs to be more intense because the oil doesn't want to mix with our vinegar or honey. You will see that it floats in such fractions, but if you whisk intensively, it will turn into a homogeneous viscous mass. Salt and pepper the mass and mix it all again.

Now we take a good bunch of arugula and put it in the center of a large plate - this will be the basis of our salad. We cut the cherry tomatoes into halves or quarters and randomly leave them in arugula. We cut the cheese into narrow, thin plates with the help of a vegetable peeler and send it to the salad.

We apply the honey dressing with a teaspoon to the entire surface of the salad, it will be on the surface in such long drops due to its viscosity, nothing needs to be mixed. Salad ready.

Salad with arugula and bell pepper

Ingredients:

• Arugula salad - 40 g;
• bell pepper- 1 PC.;
• Tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
• Olive oil - for dressing.

Cooking:

Wash the arugula and tear into a bowl with your hands. Bulgarian pepper should be washed, cleaned of seeds and veins and cut into large cubes, put it immediately to the arugula. Tomatoes are cut in half and into thin slices, put them in a dish with vegetables as well. Season the salad with salt and olive oil.

Salad with arugula and avocado

Ingredients:

• Arugula - bunch
• Krasnodar tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
• Boiled pork (or any other meat) - 150 g;
• Avocado - 1 pc.;
• Krasnodar red onion - 1 pc.;
• Olive oil - to taste;
• Balsamic sauce - to taste;
• Salt, pepper mixture;
• Sesame.

Cooking process:

We free the tomatoes from all that is superfluous and cut them thinly, it will work out if you have a well-sharpened knife, the tomatoes give juice in front of your eyes and it will be better if this juice all falls into the plate. Tomatoes are chopped, send them to a salad bowl. Red onion 1/4 cut into the same thin stripes and add to the tomatoes.

The avocado must first be peeled, then we divide it into two halves, take out the bone and cut into slices, add the avocado to the vegetables in the dish. Cut the boiled pork into strips and add to the total vegetable mass.

Nothing else needs to be cut and now you can add arugula to the salad, of course, pre-washed and dried.

Season well with olive oil, then add balsamic sauce, a little pepper and salt to taste. Mix thoroughly the salad ingredients and sprinkle with sesame seeds on top.

Why is arugula bitter?

The main reason for the bitterness of the leaves is its variety. It can also be bitter due to age or overripeness. Young lettuce leaves have a mild, pleasant flavor.

The time of year also affects bitterness. In summer, on hot days, the leaves accumulate bitterness in themselves. In the spring, regardless of the variety, all lettuce leaves have a pleasant taste.

What is useful

Rocket lettuce confidently leads among other types of spices traditionally used by mankind in terms of abundance. healing properties and wealth chemical composition.

The benefits of arugula for the human body are manifold. If you make the plant part of the diet, it will help maintain health:

1. increase immunity;
2. strengthen nervous system;
3. saturate with protein bone tissue;
4. normalize the work of the digestive organs, cure chronic and even severely neglected ulcers and gastritis;
5. prevent the occurrence of cancer;
6. strengthen the vascular walls;
7. lower blood sugar levels and maintain it at an acceptable level;
8. accelerate the healing of various kinds of injuries.

Arugula is loved by nutritionists.

Energy value 100 g of rocket salad leaves is only 25 kcal, which is equal to 1% of the daily value.

But this is not the only advantage of the plant for people seeking to lose weight. When eating arugula, metabolism is accelerated, and the body, suffering from a lack of important elements for it, is charged with the energy necessary to maintain high performance.

Rocket salad contains a lot of fiber, which makes it light, but at the same time satisfying product.

Tip A good effect in the difficult fight against excess weight can be achieved by periodically arranging the body fasting days, during which it is recommended to eat only arugula.

For thousands of years, healers have successfully treated wounds, bruises, and sprains with this plant. It has been used to relieve headaches. Oil from rocket salad solved skin problems - it got rid of boils, dermatitis, made age spots and freckles less noticeable.

What is useful for women

The herb helps to get rid of peeling, redness and rashes. A gruel of green leaves, combined with lemon juice, whitens the skin, helps smooth wrinkles.

Used for baldness and brittle hair arugula. Useful properties are the presence of retinol (vitamin A). It is enough to rub the plant oil into the scalp several times a week to prevent problems. We want to please women with another important advantage of grass.

It helps to stabilize weight, normalize metabolism. In addition, a small portion reduces appetite and saturates for a long time. Nutritionists around the world prescribe it to everyone who is losing weight. Green salad can be mixed with boiled fish, chicken, seafood, fresh vegetables. Dishes will provide the weakened body with the missing minerals and will not add extra calories.

Arugula salad during pregnancy

Future mothers should take care of their health and saturate the body with minerals and vitamins in a timely manner. Arugula in small quantities definitely cannot harm the health of a pregnant woman and fetus. But keep in mind:

Arugula, like parsley, can cause muscle spasms. Therefore, it is extremely dangerous to use this herb in large quantities during pregnancy, it can lead to uterine tone and even miscarriage.

It is this spicy herb that will help reduce blood clotting, saving the expectant mother from the occurrence of blood clots. However, it is worth making sure that the product does not cause an allergic reaction.

While breastfeeding, you can continue to eat arugula, since it does not affect the composition and quality of milk in any way.

It is safe, healthy and tasty, while continuing to transfer beneficial properties through the mother's body to the baby. Trace elements help to increase the flow of milk and increase its nutritional value.

Benefits for men

Arugula salad has incredible therapeutic activity, the beneficial properties of which lie in the biochemical composition, for the strong half of humanity. This the best remedy in the fight against erectile dysfunction. The ancient Romans knew about the miraculous power of an aphrodisiac.

Many modern healers advise using a plant with shrimp for prevention purposes. Such a banal recipe will help maintain male libido and sexual energy for a long time. There is a healing potion that has been tested for centuries: combine arugula with honey and black pepper (10:1). Eat a tablespoon daily.

Possible contraindications for taking arugula

Like any medicine and plant, arugula has a list of diseases and conditions in which it is impossible to use this herb or do it with extreme caution.

• Since arugula still has a burning taste, it should not be used for stomach diseases - gastritis or ulcers, especially with increased level acidity.
• Arugula contains a lot of phytoncides that can cause an allergic reaction, that is, there is an individual intolerance to this product. Therefore, you need to eat arugula for the first time carefully, starting with small portions.
• In diseases of the liver and kidneys, it is better to refuse arugula.
• In the presence of chronic diseases, the regular intake of arugula should be agreed with the doctor.