Carrots - known since time immemorial, a successfully cultivated plant that yields useful roots. Carrots contain many useful substances: carotenoids, vitamins (mainly groups B and A), useful compounds of sodium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, iodine, as well as essential oils and sugars, vegetable fiber.
Carrots are one of the most common in our nutrition vegetables. However, not always and not everyone wants to eat carrots in fresh form or boiled, stewed, etc.
Practitioners of various diets, advocates of healthy eating, and also preparing food for children, can prepare useful carrot cocktails.
You can use any kind of carrots for making such drinks.
Tell you how and what you can make carrot cocktails. To grind carrots you can use a conventional grater or use modern kitchen devices (combines, blenders, etc.). One important detail: to prepare a carrot cocktail with a blender, the latter should be powerful enough. Or so: grate the carrots, and grind the softer vegetables and fruits with a blender. It's also good if the farm has a modern powerful universal juicer.
Best carrots are absorbed in combination with natural live sour-milk unsweetened yogurt or cream of medium fat (remember this), and we will be happy to cook and drink milk-carrot cocktails. Do not worry, the presence of cream , and, especially, yogurt will not add fat deposits to your waist, most importantly - no sugar and honey.
Cocktail of carrots with greens
Ingredients:
- carrots of medium size - 2-4 pcs .;
- fresh fresh herbs (dill, parsley, coriander, basil) - thick bunch;
- classic yogurt - 100-200 ml.
Preparation
Chop the carrots in any convenient way. Greens shredded in a blender. We mix both. Squeeze the juice and mix it with yoghurt.
Slightly modify the cocktail, adding a pumpkin juice (we get pumpkin juice as well as carrot juice). Now the drink has become especially useful for men and has acquired additional properties (improves digestion, cleanses the liver). Such a cocktail still has a helminthic properties, give it to children from 2 years old. Employed by sports and fitness can add a few raw quail eggs to this cocktail - a real protein-vitamin "bomb" is obtained.
If you add a little juice of raw beet (about 1/5 or 1/4 of the total volume) to the same initial carrot cocktail (without eggs), you will get a cocktail for reducing and regulating blood pressure.
Another time, mix the juice of carrots and yogurt with mango juice. And the next day, prepare a cocktail based on fresh carrot juice with fresh orange juice (add a third of the water instead of yogurt). And then with pineapple juice. Good options before fitness and after. Also
Carrot cocktail with apple
Preparation
In any way, we crush carrots and unpeeled apple (so useful, in the peel contains pectin and fruit acids). Squeeze the juice and add 1/3 of the water. Water is added not to injure the gastric mucosa and pancreas.
In general, if you let your culinary fantasy unfold, you can invent and prepare a wide variety and original cocktails based on carrot juice. The main thing is to remember the following: fresh juices of some vegetables and fruits in their pure form are not useful (especially for citrus fruits, cherries, kiwi, apples, berries), so either add yoghurt or cream to the cocktail, or add water, at least 1/4 of of the total volume.
Especially careful use of cocktails based on fresh juices for those who have increased acidity, as well as during exacerbation of gastrointestinal diseases.