With the arrival of the long-awaited spring, almost all of us are experiencing an acute shortage of vitamins - the spring "vitamin deficiency", as many doctors say. It manifests itself in everyone in its own way, some feel tired throughout the day, others begin to get colds, well, while others feel completely unwell.
There are two ways to solve the problem: 1) start taking multivitamin preparations; 2) include more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins in the diet. The second way is the most correct and correct, since the vitamins in vegetables and fruits are in easily digestible form than in vitamin preparations. Therefore, it is better to diversify your diet, include more vegetables and fruits.
There are a lot of recipes for cooking vegetable dishes, it is important to make them correctly in order to preserve all the vitamins. As for vitamin A, it can be obtained from carrots. Initially, carotene enters our body, which in the presence of fats turns into vitamin A. That's why carrots need to be eaten with butter or sour cream. With the useful properties of carrots, we are probably familiar since kindergarten. Even the ancient Greeks used carrots for food and idolized it in every possible way, because it is rich not only in carotene, but also in vitamins such as C, E, PP and K. Besides vitamins, it has many minerals that are also important for the human body.
An ideal carrot dish is a carrot casserole. In order to cook it, we need:
- 3 medium carrots;
- fresh eggs 4 pieces;
- 20 grams of butter (20 grams is about one tablespoon);
- 60 grams of sugar;
- salt to taste;
- sour cream for serving.
It should be noted that carrot casserole is quickly cooked. To start, rinse and chop the carrots, you can skip through a meat grinder, you can just grate. Then extinguish the carrots in the presence of a small amount of water until the carrots stop crunching. It takes an average of 15 minutes. Next, you need to turn the carrots into mashed potatoes, you can do this using the usual “pusher” or use a blender. Add butter and sugar to carrot puree . Then beat eggs and salt, and then combine with mashed carrots. Grease the baking dish with vegetable or butter, put the carrot mass. Bake at 180º, for half an hour. Serve with sour cream on the table, if desired, decorate with greens. Since the carrot casserole is sweet, it can be decorated with berries, jam or jam.
In general, there are many interesting recipes for carrot casseroles, it is combined even with cottage cheese. Cottage cheese casserole with carrots to taste is not inferior to ordinary carrot, and cottage cheese gives it a delicate taste. In order to cook such a casserole you will need:
- cottage cheese 200 grams (any, you can fat, you can diet);
- 2 carrots;
- 1 egg;
- butter 20 grams;
- 3 tablespoons of sugar;
- salt to taste.
The cooking scheme is the same, just additionally add cottage cheese. Bake at 180-200 ° C, for 30 minutes until golden brown. Serve with sour cream, jam, jam and even honey. Such a cottage cheese carrot casserole will go well with raisins, dried apricots and nuts, so you can experiment in every way.
Such a dish will be an ideal dessert for the sweet tooth. And for mothers with capricious babies, a carrot casserole will be a good solution, it not only looks bright, but also sweet in taste, and also useful.
Of course, for those who like to cook - this is not the ultimate fantasy, carrots can be combined with any products: meat, fish, fruit, and dairy products. Thus, eating properly, we not only enjoy delicious food, but also a charge of vitality and youth in the form of natural vitamins.