Question 1: What kind of dishes can olive oil be used for? Cold dressing: Olive oil can be directly mixed with various meat and vegetable dishes and pasta, can be used to make salads and various mayonnaises, and can be spread on bread and other foods. Food mixed with olive oil has a bright color, smooth taste, fragrant smell, and a rich Mediterranean flavor. Coating bread: Chinese breakfast has always been a big problem, which can be improved with olive oil. Toast the sliced ??bread you bought in a toaster or microwave for 2-3 minutes, take it out, and apply olive oil directly on it. You can also add honey. It tastes amazing. Children can easily accept this way of eating, and it is All the vitamins you need for the day are available. Another way to eat it is to remove the seeds from the tomatoes, cut them into very small cubes, and mix them with olive oil. You can add salt or not, and spread this olive oil tomato sauce on toasted bread slices. It is nutritious. , and delicious. There is a simpler way to eat it, pour some olive oil on a plate, sprinkle a little salt, and eat it with toasted or untoasted bread.

For salad dressing: wash all your favorite vegetables, including red, yellow, or green bell peppers, celery, cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, etc., dry them, cut them into the shapes you like, and pour them first Add olive oil and stir (this can prevent the loss of water in the vegetables). The amount of olive oil should be enough to cover all the vegetables with a layer of oil. Then add an appropriate amount of vinegar (grape vinegar is the most suitable) and salt. , mix well and serve. If you add some canned tuna and other seafood to the vegetables, it will add a lot of flavor. Eating this way is easy to make, does not cause any fumes, and is very healthy.

Frying: Various foods can be fried with olive oil. Olive oil is resistant to high temperatures and has strong antioxidant capacity. The remaining oil after frying food will not turn black, contain impurities and sediments. No matter how many times it is fried, the oil remains as clear as new and the fried food is crispy and delicious. Especially when used to fry fish and meat, it not only tastes fragrant and delicious. Because olive oil expands easily when heated, the dosage is about 1/3 less than other cooking oils.

Cooking: Olive oil can be directly boiled, stewed, simmered, and simmered with various meat and vegetable dishes. The dishes seasoned with olive oil are delicious and unique in flavor. They will never be as greasy as ordinary oils when eaten. Feel. Adding appropriate amount of olive oil to hot pot seasoning can increase the fragrance and sweetness of the food.

Question 2: Can olive oil be used in cold dishes? Yes, olive oil is very good

Question 3: Can olive oil be used in salad dishes? What is the smell? Of course, olive oil is very healthy and has no peculiar smell, but the price is relatively high.

Olive oil contains 65.8-84.9% monounsaturated fatty acids. In addition to supplying a large amount of heat energy to the human body, monounsaturated fatty acids can also adjust the ratio of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the human plasma. Eating olive oil can increase the balanced concentration of high-density lipoprotein HDL (good cholesterol) in the human body. Ensure the body's requirements for cholesterol. It also reduces the concentration of low-density lipoprotein LDL (bad cholesterol) in plasma to prevent excess cholesterol in the human body. Monounsaturated fatty acids are very beneficial to the health of the heart, brain, kidneys, and blood vessels.

Olive oil contains about 3.5-22% polyunsaturated fatty acids. Polyunsaturated fatty acids can be divided into omega-3 fatty acids (mainly linolenic acid) and omega-6 fatty acids (mainly linoleic acid). Acids). These are fatty acids that are necessary for the human body and cannot be synthesized by the human body. Therefore, it is also called essential fatty acid. According to decades of research on essential fatty acids in the human body by the world medical community, when the ratio of essential fatty acids in the human body to omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids is 1:4, various diseases are difficult to treat. Invade the human body. The ratio of essential fatty acids contained in olive oil is exactly 1:4, which is similar to human milk.

Olive oil is rich in trace elements squalene (Note 1), flavonoids (Note 2) and polyphenolic compounds (Note 3), which can enhance the body’s immunity and delay aging.

It also contains 0.03 to 0.36 mg of beta-carotene per 100 grams, 1.2-43 mg of vitamin E, and various fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamins A, D, F, and K, which are human organs. essential nutrients. Therefore, olive oil is now recognized by the medical community as one of the healthiest edible oils. Western countries such as the United States and Germany have already included olive oil in their pharmacopoeias.

Question 4: What kinds of dishes is suitable for olive oil? Recently, many readers have written and called this newspaper. They all know that olive oil is a healthy edible oil, but they do not know the specific benefits of olive oil to the body, let alone Find out what to cook. With readers' doubts, we asked Associate Professor Zhao Haijun, a special nutrition consultant for the "Life Reference" column of Hangzhou TV Life Channel and assistant director of the Public Health Department of Zhejiang Medical College. Olive oil can prevent cardiovascular disease. Zhao Haijun said that olive oil is a treasure and has many benefits for the human body, the biggest of which is lowering blood lipids. Because olive oil is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids can effectively lower blood lipids and thus prevent cardiovascular diseases in the elderly. Modern medicine has proven that olive oil can also prevent arteriosclerosis and complications of arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, heart disease, heart failure, kidney failure, and cerebral hemorrhage.

In addition to preventing cardiovascular disease, olive oil can prevent gallstones and has therapeutic effects on gastritis and gastroduodenal ulcers. In addition, olive oil has a certain laxative effect. The latest research results show that after healthy people consume olive oil, the glucose content in the body can be reduced by 12%. Therefore, olive oil has become the best edible oil to prevent and control diabetes. Olive oil also has a certain effect on cancer. This is because the fatty acids in olive oil have antioxidant effects and contain trace elements, so it can prevent certain cancers, such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, uterine cancer, etc. . In addition, olive oil also plays a certain role in the radiation protection issue that everyone is now concerned about. "After olive oil was discovered to have enhanced radiation protection, it was used to make food for astronauts," Zhao Haijun said. Nowadays, the elderly are very fond of beauty, and many of them take vitamin E to fight aging. Zhao Haijun recommends that everyone eat more olive oil. Because olive oil contains vitamin E and antioxidants, it can protect the skin, especially prevent skin damage and aging, and make the skin shiny. Olive oil is more suitable for salad dressing. Everyone knows the benefits of olive oil, but what about it? In our impression, olive oil seems to be only used for cold dressing. Zhao Haijun said that in fact, olive oil can be used in many ways, but he recommends that you use it more for cold dressing. Olive oil is a kind of edible oil brought from the Mediterranean region, where people mainly use olive oil for cold dressing. This is because olive oil is a kind of vegetable oil that is physically cold-pressed, so the oil produced in this way has minimal nutritional loss. The purpose of cold salad is to prevent the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E in olive oil. At the same time, the aroma of olive oil is stronger when it is served cold. However, you must use olive oil for cooking. Zhao Haijun suggests that you must pay attention to the oil temperature. It is best to control the oil temperature below 100 degrees. In addition, if you use olive oil to grill food, it is best to add it when the food is almost done. This prevents the high-temperature decomposition of oil and excessive oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E, which are harmful to the human body. As for some people on the Internet who say that olive oil is more suitable for cooking pickled foods, Zhao Haijun thinks it is unreasonable. Other vegetable oils can also be used.

Question 5: Can olive oil be used for cold dishes without heating? Yes.

Notes:

Can olive oil be consumed separately?

In foreign countries, edible olive oil is strictly filtered and purified, while the manufacturing process of olive oil for beauty is relatively rough. Most of the olive oils currently seen on the Chinese market are edible oils, and basically none are specifically used for beauty. However, since the processing of edible oil is much stricter than that of external oil, in layman's terms, all edible oils on the market can be used for beauty.

Other uses

1. Cooking

Usage: only one third of ordinary cooking oil is needed, and the cost of using oil is greatly reduced. No need to preheat, no need to choke the pan, less oily smoke, non-stick pan, no pollution to the environment, the fried dishes do not change color, are light and bright, original flavor, not mushy or greasy.

Ordinary cooking oil produces peroxidation reactants at high temperatures, which are harmful to the human body; olive oil is rich in antioxidants and can be heated to 200-220 degrees Celsius without any problem. It is the safest for fried foods.

2. Cold salad

Wash and cut fresh vegetables into pieces, add salt, and then pour olive oil on them, which is the most common Western-style vegetable salad.

3. Dip bread

Pour olive oil into a small dish and dip it into small pieces of bread. It tastes fragrant and smooth, appetizing and healthy. It is a typical Mediterranean way of eating. .

4. Oral administration

Patients with chronic gastritis and ulcers take a spoonful of olive oil (10 ml) orally on an empty stomach every morning and evening, which can quickly relieve symptoms and effectively eliminate oral odor caused by stomach problems. (Bad breath); People with constipation can make their intestines smooth by taking olive oil orally. Drinking a spoonful of olive oil before drinking can protect your stomach and bile.

Question 6: What dishes can be made with olive oil? Extra virgin olive oil is most suitable for use in cold dishes and salads, such as frozen crispy fish, cold tofu, jellyfish, etc. It can be used with rice wine It has the best effect when used in conjunction with Shaoxing flower carvings. Olive oil is also suitable for use with light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and a small amount of Sichuan hot sauce. It tastes especially good with a little sesame oil or chili oil. Sprinkling a little extra virgin olive oil into the salted fish fried rice from Macau and Portugal will make it even more delicious.

Olive oil is also an excellent Chinese cooking oil. Olive oil absorbs the flavors of garlic, ginger, and scallions very quickly when you first sauté. Olive oil pairs well with vinegar, especially vinegar made from glutinous rice. Like West Lake vinegar fish, it would be best if you use olive oil and Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar. Since olive oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, it is very suitable to be used as a frying oil for Chinese dishes. It can be used continuously for more than 10 times without changing the taste. Of course, the impurities in the oil must be filtered after each use.

Question 7: What dishes can be made with olive oil? Olive World extra virgin olive oil can be used for cooking, frying, grilling, baking, making sauces, cold noodles, drinking, pickling, steaming rice, etc.

Question 8: What kind of cooking is suitable for olive oil? Olive oil is rich in nutrients, suitable for both hot and cold, and can be used in a variety of cooking methods:

Directly as a cold meal oil.

Using olive oil directly will bring out the characteristics of dishes to the extreme. Drizzle a little olive oil on a fresh vegetable salad or fried steak to make the food richer and more delicious. If you add a glass of pure wine, it is really a pleasant thing.

Fry in olive oil. Olive oil can be used repeatedly without deterioration. It is more resistant to deterioration caused by oxidation and is the most suitable food for frying. Those of us who prefer fried foods and pay attention to health can use it with confidence.

Marinate in olive oil. Olive oil is a better marinade ingredient because it easily penetrates into the food and brings the flavor of the marinade into it.

Bake with olive oil. Spread olive oil on bread or desserts and bake.

Question 9: Can olive oil be used in cold dishes? Of course, Rong’s olive oil is great for cold dishes!

Question 10: If there is no olive oil in the salad, what oil can be used instead? You can use sesame oil, and any current refined oil can be used, such as sunflower oil, corn oil, etc.