Ingredients: one head of chicory salad, 4 pitted olives, a small portion of red bell pepper, half a small cucumber, some sprouts of any kind, half a lemon, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, salt.
Preparation:
Tear off the outer leaves of the chicory, cut off the top and root, and cut in half lengthwise. Chop and mix the olives, peppers and cucumber. Mix three tablespoons of olive oil with lemon juice and salt. Place the chicory on a plate, slices up, sprinkle with the vegetable mixture and sauce, top with the sprouts. It turns out a very tasty and non-standard vegetable salad.
For the chicory salad reference:
The taste of the salad is bitter – due to inulin and intibin. Inulin, which gives a bitter taste, has a regulating effect on the body’s metabolism and is used as a sugar substitute in diabetes. Intibin improves the functioning of the digestive system, the activity of the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, cardiovascular system, and also has a positive effect on the hematopoietic organs. In addition to these substances, chicory leaves are rich in vitamins and minerals: they contain ascorbic acid, carotene, proteins, sugars, nitric acid, sulfate and hydrochloric acid potassium salts, which improve kidney function.
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