What's in Coriander

What's in Coriander. Coriander seeds are a common herb, coriander seeds are the seeds of the plant cilantro, it then has a strong flavor, can be eaten as a spice, but also can be used in medicine, it is rich in volatile oils and a large number of carotenoids. Here's a look at what coriander is all about.

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First, coriander is considered an ancient plant, commonly used in life among the flavored dishes.

Yuan Qin Jianfu "Dongtang Lao" third fold, "selling vegetables, cabbage, cabbage, red root vegetables, coriander, carrots, scallions, uh", on the early records. The reason why coriander is called caraway is that it is said to be native to the Mediterranean region of Europe, and it is a plant brought back from the Western Regions by Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty. Coriander as an ancient flavoring plants, in the modern social life, many restaurants, many families, many catering hot pot, barbecue, snacks, coleslaw, always less of its shadow.

In the neighborhood where we live there are many people like to eat coriander, some also in front of the house to open up a small piece of land, planted some of their own coriander to eat, some inside the home on the balcony, with the potty pots of coriander, the price of coriander sold on the market is generally not cheap, generally two or three dollars a couple of coriander. In the summer gazpacho, always sprinkle a handful of chopped coriander, both color and flavor. In the dishes that are about to come out of the pot, throw in a few cilantro, not only for the sake of good-looking plate, high temperature forced out of the aroma, but also make the dishes add a unique flavor.

Second, coriander is a food that people love and hate, usually how to use it better?

Coriander is a food that people love and hate, some people like it, some people don't like it, as if durian and stinky tofu, there are always two extremes of the performance, love it, love it, people who hate him but also discarded. Coriander perennial exudes a charm unstoppable aroma, love people will love, do not love will not love,

In our family is like to eat this coriander. For example, there is a kind of coleslaw, coleslaw coriander carrots, is a kind of coriander in coleslaw in the usual way, as long as the simple two ingredients, you can make a delicious flavor of the next meal. It is simple, not many ingredients, the main ingredients are coriander, carrots, scallions, garlic, salt, soy sauce, oyster sauce, vinegar, vegetable oil, white sesame seeds.

The main practice, the cilantro of each rhizome picked off and washed, and then cut into sections with a knife. Carrots with a paring knife to peel off the skin, clean and cut into thin shreds, the parsley and carrots into the container, shallots clean and chopped into it. Garlic peeled, first with a kitchen knife, and then cut the garlic into pieces, put into the pot.

Basin on the seasoning, a spoon of salt, 2 spoons of soy sauce, 1 spoon of oyster sauce and 1 spoon of vinegar. The oil is heated, when the oil is hot, put the white sesame seeds into the frying incense, while hot, pour on the seasoning in the basin, and then use chopsticks to stir evenly, and then plate on the table can be eaten. This is a practice that we often do, you like it, you can try to do a do.

Third, coriander called unique cilantro, what type of fruit it is?

Generally when coriander grows until it produces small white flowers, it produces fruits after a short while. The fruits of coriander are usually called coriander seeds, matsutake seeds, caraway seeds and also coriander seeds. Its fruit type is bi-globose, yellowish brown in color, hard and aromatic when ripe.

With a mild aromatic flavor and a mixture of sage and lemon. The seeds are harvested when they turn brown and are threshed and dried in the sun to extract the aromatic substances. Slightly spicy flavor native to the Mediterranean coast. Commonly used in pickled food, ground into a fine powder can be used in many food flavoring, cooking one of the ideal spices, but also one of the ingredients for the preparation of curry.

Coriander seeds with volatile oil, malic acid, potassium salt, organic acid calcium salt, fat, protein, a variety of vitamins and nitrogenous substances. There are stomach, through the role of hemp, can be fumigation treatment of hemorrhoids leakage and prolapse, decoction water gargle for toothache, can solve the food poisoning bacteria poisoning. Coriander seeds made of aromatic emulsion solution, used for purulent diseases of the wound, have to make the wound clean, promote the role of granulation. There is a therapeutic effect on heart disease.

In short, as coriander stems and leaves as vegetables and spices, and has the role of stomach and digestion; coriander seeds can be extracted from the aromatic oils, but also into the medicine, there is a wind, through the rash, stomach, expectorant effect. So coriander is really a very good plant!

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Coriander how to pick

We in the first picking coriander can be directly uprooted to the inter-seedling, we pick coriander can be picked each time the coriander leaves, so that you can let the coriander has been growing, so that it can always be consumed for us.

Benefits of eating coriander

Increase your appetite

Coriander contains mannitol, linalool, etc., and these substances are good to help the digestive role, we can eat to increase salivary secretion, promote intestinal peristalsis, so that we have more Appetite. And add some coriander in the dishes can be very good to help flavor and deodorization, increase the flavor.

Improve immunity

Coriander is also rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C not only helps to prevent scurvy, but also improves the immunity of our body is a very good effect, especially in the alternation of spring and summer, the influenza is frequent, we consume some of the food at this time is a good choice. Coriander is a good choice.

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