Spices

In addition to potatoes, onions and tomatoes, beds in the country it is useful to plant herbs and herbs such as oregano (oregano). In addition to delicious tea and spicy dishes, it will help protect the garden from pests and will be its perfect decoration. If you have already thought about this, below you will learn all about oregano, its cultivation and care.

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Oregano or oregano is a perennial herbaceous plant up to 60 cm high, branchy, thin shoots, hairs grow at the base. Oval finely toothed leaves grow in pairs, against each other on small cuttings. Small flowers of lilac or white color form shield-like fluffy panicles. The chemical composition of oregano includes essential oils, vitamins C and B6, antioxidants and tannins, due to which the plant has a bright aroma and healing properties.

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Often, lovers of spices confuse savory and thyme plants. Guilty in the confusion similar to the sound of the names of herbs. But both savory and thyme rightfully occupy their place in the recipe of culinary spices. There are more than thirty varieties of chabra in the world. The plant is famous for the strong spicy aroma of the leaves, which contains a lot of essential oils.

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Cilantro or coriander is a long-known spice, especially loved by residents of eastern countries that have grown it for many years. It is used as a spice for various dishes: meat, vegetable, in sauces, as well as raw, in salads. The plant coriander has a pronounced pleasant aroma that can not be confused with anything.

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Parsley is a biennial plant of the Parsley genus from the Umbrella family with upright branched stem and shiny, dark green, pinnate leaves. Contains ascorbic acid, vitamin B, retinol, riboflavin, iron, potassium, magnesium, pectin substances and phytoncides. It is widely used in dry and fresh form for flavoring in cooking and at conservation, it is added to dishes from vegetables, meat, boiled fish, and game.

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Seasoning, ointment, tea, oil - that is not only made from marjoram. Spice is famous all over the world, and hardly any family dinner will go without it. They began to use it tens of centuries ago. Moreover, the range of application as it was, and remains very large. Until now, marjoram is used to treat many diseases, it also found its application in cosmetology and in other directions.

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Many people have heard about saffron spice, but not everyone had a chance to try it - it hurts the prices bite. It is this spice that is rightfully considered the most expensive in the world, which is confirmed even by the corresponding entry in the Guinness Book of Records. The transcendental cost of saffron is explained by a very labor-intensive production technology: it is necessary to collect it manually, and the yield from the raw material is very small (10 kg per 1 ha).

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Italians do not represent their cuisine without arugula, and for us it has only recently been outlandish and quite expensive greens. Today you can simply buy it in the store, and it is becoming more popular. Juicy aromatic arugula for salad can now be grown without problems on a windowsill at home.

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Arugula (Eruka, Indau) appeared on our table recently, but it surely takes its position and is becoming more and more popular. Discovering the masterpieces of Italian and Mediterranean cuisine, many do not even realize what benefits this wonderful greenness holds. About arugula in general, the benefits and harms of its use, we will discuss in this article.

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Hardly anyone today imagines cooking without the use of greenery. Besides the fact that it is a tasty and fragrant seasoning for various dishes, it is also a storehouse of nutrients. So, for example, parsley contains four times more ascorbic acid than lemon. And in 100 g of spinach there is 25% of iron from the daily norm necessary for the person.

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Freezing is an excellent way to store food in the winter. The hostesses got used to freeze vegetables, fruits, berries, herbs, greens. This makes it possible to feed the body with essential vitamins and other beneficial substances in the winter, when it is difficult to get fresh vegetables and fruits.

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Representing apple pie or bun, many feel the smell of fresh pastries and ... the smell of cinnamon. This spice reliably settled among our taste preferences and is becoming increasingly popular. A less well-known seasoning is its Chinese cousin, cassia, which, however, has already firmly occupied the domestic market, but not yet a very definite place in the mind of the consumer, and therefore there is much controversy surrounding it.

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Many Europeans associate cinnamon with a specific aromatic spice that is added to pastries and fruit and vegetable salads. But in world practice, the use of spices is not limited to this. In the kitchens of different nations, it is added to meat, aspic fish, appetizers, first courses, desserts, various pickles, marinades.

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