Edible and very useful weed! Light, tasty purslane salad. Turkish recipes

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Delicious and healthy salad (appetizer) from purslane.
Purslane salad with yogurt. In the summer heat, an invariable dish in Turkey is a salad (appetizer) of purslane (semizotu) with yogurt.

Garden purslane is mentioned in the ancient Greek chronicles of the times of Hippocrates, Theophrastus, Pliny. Scientists and doctors of Ancient Rome wrote about purslane - they treated diseases with purslane, used it in cosmetology, and ate it.
Arab healers treated diseases of the kidneys, liver, stomach, diabetes mellitus with purslane, and they also called purslane a blessed vegetable.

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Ingredients:
Purslane garden - 250-350 grams
Natural yogurt or sour cream - 4-5 tbsp
Olive oil 1 tbsp
Garlic - 2-3 cloves
Salt to taste

Purslane must be picked young, before flowering, when the stem breaks very easily! Both leaves and stems are used.
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Useful properties of the plant
The chemical composition of the plant is unique: carotenoids responsible for the beauty and health of the human skin; vitamin A, which regulates protein synthesis and normalizes metabolic processes in the body; vitamin C, which contributes to the maintenance of the immune system; polyunsaturated fatty acid Omega-3, which is responsible for many processes in the body, is contained in the plant in such an amount that it exceeds the content in fish; nicotinic acid, which stimulates metabolic processes and improves lipid metabolism.

The composition of Portulac includes useful organic compounds, acids, citric and malic acid, glucose and alanine are present.

Omega-3 contained in Dandur prevents stroke, heart attack and cardiovascular diseases, lowers cholesterol levels in the blood.
Potassium contained in the plant tones the walls of blood vessels and reduces the load on the heart muscle.

Oncology prevention
Alas, cancer is one of the most common diseases, and even the minimum amount of anti-carcinogens in the composition of the plant should not be ignored. Vitamins A and C, contained in the plant in sufficient quantities, act as good antioxidants. Betacyanin and betaxanthin help block free radicals, preventing cells from regenerating.
Therapeutic actions of purslane:
#Antioxidant,
diuretic,
#Antimicrobial,
Antitoxic,
hypoglycemic,
Antiulcer,
anti-inflammatory,
Antihelminthic,
Laxative,
Regenerating.
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On a note!
For the full functioning of the body, a person needs 800 micrograms of vitamin A, 100 g of purslane contains 65 micrograms.

The human body should receive 60 mg of vitamin C per day, 20 mg per 100 g of purslane.
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Harm and contraindications for use Despite the huge list of useful properties, Purslane has a number of contraindications for use, like other products.


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