Useful properties of cereals of Kinoa. Film dishes in multicooker and salads and salads

Did you stumbled upon the exotic porridge of Kinoa in the store? Read how it is useful and how to cook it.

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Supporters of a healthy lifestyle are well aware that cereals from cereals contain a large number of useful “slow” carbohydrates necessary for the human body to replenish energy costs. It is better to eat porridge and dishes with cereal for breakfast or lunch.

Today, not only the good old and a little bored rice, buckwheat, oatmeal and millet are available to customers, but also original in the title and taste of Cusus, Bulgur and Kinoa. The latter, by the way, is considered one of the most useful cereals. It is worth finding out more about its properties and use in cooking.

Kinoa Krupa: Useful properties and harm

According to one of the American ratings, Kinoa (Kinoa, Quinoa, Kinva) is included in the TOP-20 of the most useful fluid products for humans.
In fact, a plant from the genus Mary, amaranth family, is a pseudo -granular culture. Film is naturally growing in South America on the slopes of the mountains. For a long time it has been eaten.

The Incas called Kinoa Gold grain. — The Incas called the Kinoa "grain made of gold."

Important: it is known that for ancient Incas, calling the croup “grain made of gold”, it was no less valuable than potatoes and mais. They baked bread from Kinoa

Today, quite successful attempts to cultivate Kinoa in other geographical zones are accepted, which makes it possible to export the cereal. Now it is on the shelves of large stores in Eastern Europe.

Outwardly, Kinoa is something between buckwheat and corn, but it tastes most like wild rice.

The beneficial and taste properties of the South American cereal are due to its nutritional composition. In 100 Goroda:

a significant amount of vegetable protein - about 14, 1 g
about the same amount of water
57 g of carbohydrates
7 g of fat
2.5 g of ash
amino acids
cellulose
organic acids and their salts

Important: the vitamin-mineral composition of the movie is also rich. It includes B vitamins (1, 2, 3, 4 (choline), 5, 6, 9), vitamins A, C and E, potassium, sodium, calcium, manganese, selenium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, copper, copper, copper other elements of the Mendeleev system

South American cereals are considered more useful than wheat, rice or barley. Her regular consumption has a beneficial effect on the state of the human body:

It is known that protein is a material for building new cells by the body. It is especially important to consume it in the required number for children, pregnant women and nursing mothers, and athletes. There is more of this nutrient in the cinema than in buckwheat croup
Thanks to the amino acid, calcium lysine from Kinoa itself or other products consumed by humans is better absorbed. Bones, teeth, hair and nails become stronger. Current consumption-prevention of serious diseases of the musculoskeletal system, such as arthritis
Fiber and complex carbohydrates in the composition of cereals make it the product that must be on the table of diabetics without fail
Potassium, iron, magnesium and selenium in Kinoa are necessary for those who suffer from cardiovascular diseases
Magnesium and vitamins also improve the condition of a person suffering from diseases of the nervous system
The nutritional composition of the cereal turns it into a universal general strengthening

VIDEO: Kinoa - useful properties

Calorius of Kinoa

The carbohydrate cinema, if you cook and consume it correctly, promotes detoxification of the body and weight loss. The “coals” contained in it are slow, they are completely absorbed by the body and in the process of metabolism are transformed into energy.

The energy value of cereals is 368 kcal per 100 g, which is not much more than that of buckwheat or wheat.

Is there a gluten in Kinoa?

Gluten, or gluten, is a protein that is part of most cereals. In many people, it causes allergies. The negative manifestations of the use of gluten -containing products are also:

stomach and intestines
falling blood sugar
violation of metabolism, in particular, assimilation of fats, vitamins and minerals
obesity

There is no gluten in Kinoa, therefore, its use will not cause such problems.

The harm of Kinoa

The Moderate Moderate Croats is not able to harm. But it is not recommended to eat every day, since it includes salts of oxalic acid - oxolates. Their overabundance in the body leads to the formation of stones in the kidneys, bile and blades.

How to cook Kinoa? Porridge from cinema grains

Often a person who is first encountered with or exotic cereals is lost, not knowing how to cook it. They are interested in the proportion of water, cooking time, the need to add oil, seasonings, so on.

It is not difficult to cook porridge from a movie:

kinoa is recommended to rest
further, the cereal is washed
it is better to soak it for 2 hours, then it will better boil and acquires a softer taste
kinoa and water are taken in a classic proportion of 1 to 2
cook under a lid over low heat for a quarter of an hour

If the porridge from the movie is prepared for the side dish, it is boiled on water, salt and seasoned to taste, add butter.

For breakfast, it is delicious to cook movies in milk.

RECIPE: Kinoa with dried fruits and nuts in milk

It is necessary: \u200b\u200bKinoa - 1 cup, milk - 1 cup, water - 1 cup (or two glasses of low -fat milk), raisins, dried apricots - 30 g, walnuts - 30 g, honey - 1 teaspoon

Preparation:

Prepared Kinoa is placed in a pan with cold milk, put a pot on a slow fire
Bring to a boil and boil for another 15 minutes
Raisins and dried apricots are slightly softened in boiling water
Grind nuts, chicken is finely cut
Add to porridge. The honey is put in a dish slightly cooled, immediately before serving

Kinoa with dried fruits and nuts in milk.

Salad with Kinoa

Nutritionists say that it is better to combine protein movie with vegetables than with meat, for example, as part of original salads.

RECIPE: Vegetable salad with cereal cinema

It is necessary: \u200b\u200bKinoa - 1 cup, water - 2 glasses, cucumber - 2 pcs., Tomato - 2 pcs, raisins - 30 g, green onion, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and seasonings for taste.

Preparation:

Kinoa is boiled according to the standard scheme, let it cool
Vegetables are cut into thin half rings, onions - rings
Raisins are scalded. Combine cereals, vegetables and raisins, season with a mixture of olives and lemon juice oil, salt and season
Before serving, parsley, cilantro or mint is decorated with leaves

Kinoa with chicken

Lovers of pilaf can try to prepare his easier option with a movie instead of rice and chicken instead of lamb.

RECIPE: Pilaf made of cereal cereals with chicken meat

It is necessary: \u200b\u200bKinoa-1 tbsp., Water-2 tbsp., Chicken fillet-0.5 kg, onions-1 pc., Carrots-1-2 pcs., Garlic-4 cloves, tomatoes-2 pcs, seasoning for pilaf, cilantro, salt, pepper.

Preparation:

Chicken fillet is cut into small cubes and fried for 3 minutes in a thick -walled cauldron for pilaf
Add onions chopped with half rings, grated or chopped carrots chopped with fine strips, season
After 2 minutes, added tomatoes and garlic rings are added
Next, pour pre -prepared cinema, add 0.7 parts of water
It is cooked over low heat for about 30 minutes
As necessary, add the rest of the water. Sprinkled before serving

Pilaf made of cereal of Kinoa with chicken meat.

VIDEO: Porridge Kinoa with chicken breasts

Kinoa with mushrooms

South American cereal with mushrooms is tasty, but heavy. Such a variant of the male side dish.

RECIPE: Film with mushroom dressing

It is necessary: \u200b\u200bKinoa - 1 cup, water or mushroom broth - 2 cups, champignons - 300 g, onions - 1 pc., Salt, seasonings.

Preparation:

Kinoa prepare and boil according to the scheme
Champignons are washed, cut into cubes, washed, clean and also cut into cubes
Fry mushrooms with onions for 5 minutes.
Three minutes before the cinema is cooked, adding on onions and mushrooms add to it
Salt and season

Soup from Kinoa

Soup with cereal from South America is a warm nutritious dish for lunch. It can be cooked on meat or lean broth.

RECIPE: Tomato soup with a movie

It is necessary: \u200b\u200bvegetable broth or water - 2 l, film - o, 5 cups, tomatoes - 3 pcs, potatoes - 2 pcs., Onion - 1 pc., Carrots - 1 pc., Celery - 0.25 roots, garlic - 2 clove, greens, salt, pepper

Preparation:

First of all, they prepare a cereal of Kinoa
Next, they clean and cut vegetables with miniature cubes. Fry onions, celery and carrots in oil for 5 minutes
Next, add tomatoes, fried for another 3 minutes
At this time, bring the water or broth to a boil, put the cereals and cubes of potatoes there
Cook for 15 minutes, then add passed vegetables. Cook another 10 minutes
Add chopped parsley and squeezed garlic before serving

VIDEO: Beans from beans with a movie and spinach

Kinoa with shrimp

Killes of Kinoa and shrimp are a very worthy analogue of risotto with seafood. The dish is not ashamed to put on the festive table.

RECIPE: Kinoa with royal shrimp

We need: shrimp - 250 g, film - 1 cup, onions - 1 pc., Garlic - 2 tooth, vegetable broth - 0.5 l., Lemon - 1 pc., Greens of parsley, olive oil, salt and seasonings.

Preparation:

Fry on onion and garlic are fried in olive oil, and a boiled, washed and soaked Kenoa is added to them. Together fried 2 minutes
After pour the broth
They boil for 20 minutes, or until the broth evaporates. Add greens to porridge
In a separate frying pan with olive oil for 2-3 minutes, fry shrimp for 2-3 minutes
When serving on a plate, porridge is first laid out, and then shrimp

Film dishes in a multicooker

In the multivark, Kinoa is cooked in "Porridge" mode.

You need to take two measuring cups and 4-5 measuring cups of water, 30 g of butter and salt to taste
They pour cereals into the slow cooker and first slightly fry it in the "frying" or "baking" mode, then add water and salt
The timer is set for 15 minutes. Add oil before serving

You can also cook in a slow cooker with a movie:

soups
dairy porridge
analogs of risotto and pilaf
dishes with vegetables
other dishes

Video: Milk porridge from a movie in a slow cooker

Kinoa for weight loss

Kinoa has a place to be in the diet of those who lose weight on proper nutrition or a protein-carbohydrate diet. Since the cereals are still carbohydrate and high enough to lose weight, sitting on it, you need: