How to use Jerusalem artichoke with diabetes

Jerusalem artichoke is a source of inulin. A substance that is rich earth pear, recommended for type 2 diabetes. It normalizes the level of sugar in the body of the patient. Root crop stimulates the pancreas, helps the body produce insulin. Jerusalem artichoke is rich in fiber. Rough dietary fiber accelerates metabolic processes and helps patients fight overweight, which worsens the health of people with type 2 diabetes.

Good Health Meals

With high blood sugar levels, the root vegetable is consumed three times a day, raw. Jerusalem artichoke resembles potatoes to taste, only sweeter and low in starch. Ground pear is washed under the tap, peeling from the ground, and rubbed on a medium grater. The mass is filled with linseed or corn oil. The product can be finely chopped and lightly salted.After eating the root, take a thirty-minute break and then have lunch or breakfast.

Snacks
With diabetes, vitamin supplements prepare tasty and healthy salads. The composition of the light summer version includes:

• radish;
• fresh cucumber;
• parsley;
• sprig of dill;
• middle girasol.

Large or medium-sized vegetable cubes mixed with shredded greens. Dress with olive or flaxseed oil, spices and salt. To earth pear did not darken, add 20 ml of table or apple cider vinegar to the salad.

The diet of a person with diabetes should be varied. Cucumbers and radishes can be replaced by more exotic daikon and carrots. Root vegetables pass through a medium grater, add greens to improve the taste and saturate the dish with vitamins. Savory aroma will appear thanks to cilantro, parsley and fresh basil. Vegetables are filled with vegetable oil only. Sauces containing fats of animal origin are excluded from the diet of a person with diabetes.

Instead of harmful desserts prepare a sweet salad. Useful sweetness consists of simple components:

• ripe red apples;
• earthen pear;
• carrots;
• freshly squeezed lemon juice;
• olive oil for dressing.

No sugar or honey is added to the dish. Instead of sweeteners put slices of strawberry, ripe pear or banana slices. But you can do carrots and apples, grated on a medium grater. If you want to make the salad more savory, you should add a bunch of greenery and a pinch of spices. For example, dried basil or black pepper.

In winter, when there is neither radish, nor fresh cucumbers, Jerusalem artichoke is mixed with sauerkraut. Products complement sour green apples, raw carrots and green onion feathers. The second version of the salad includes boiled beets, pickled cucumber, ground pear and cold-pressed vegetable oil.

Casseroles
Jerusalem artichoke is good because it does not lose useful properties even during heat treatment. Their roots are appetizing casseroles, which cope with two tasks at once: help to fight the feeling of hunger and reduce the concentration of sugar in the blood.
Simple and hearty dish is prepared from:

• 500 grams of earthen pear;
• 4 tbsp. l low-fat milk;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 100–150 g of semolina.

Root, washed under a tap, rubbed. Much faster chop bilder.Slightly squeeze the mass, removing excess juice, and spread on a pre-heated pan, greased with butter or olive oil. Stew under the lid until half cooked, cool slightly and pour in beaten eggs. Filled with milk and thickened with semolina. They put it in a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and put it in the oven for half an hour or 35–40 minutes. Bake Jerusalem artichoke at 180 degrees. Take out when a golden crust appears. Serve separately or with some porridge. You can pour the natural unsweetened yogurt, but not sour cream or mayonnaise.

Delicious and tender casseroles are also prepared from:

• fresh and salted mushrooms - 200 g;
• Jerusalem artichoke - 600 g;
• low-fat hard cheese - 50 g;
• onions - 1 pc .;
• eggs - 1 pc .;
• vegetable oil - 30–40 ml;
• breadcrumbs.

You will also need spices and salt, because without spices, the dish will turn out too bland.
First, fry onion cubes or half rings in a pan. Then pickled mushrooms and fresh champignons are passaged separately. The components are brought to half-cooked, then mixed, a little water is added to the container and quenched for 3-4 minutes.

While onions are languishing in the pan, washed Jerusalem artichoke is boiled in boiling water. It is better to salt the base, but it is important not to overdo it with spices. The liquid is drained and turned into a homogeneous root vegetable mash, seasoned with raw egg. Mushroom mass is added to the earthen pear and mixed.

Pasta shift in the form, greased with softened butter. The bottom is sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Puree of mushrooms and earthen pear spread. The last layer is grated cheese, so that the casserole has a savory, crusty crust. The dish is prepared for 25 minutes, turning on the oven 180 degrees. Served hot and cold.

Jerusalem artichoke casserole with mushrooms and cheese is eaten no more than once a week. It is quite heavy and high in calories, so the load on the pancreas increases.

First dishes and pasta for sandwiches
Vitamin soup, which stimulates insulin production, is made from young nettle. A bunch of greens dipped literally for 2-3 minutes in boiling water to remove the bitterness. Then cut together with sorrel into thin strips. Fry onions, chopped into half rings, separately, and add 1 tbsp to the dressing. l wheat or corn flour.To make the dish easier, you can take milled oatmeal.

Tubers, cut into thin bars, mixed with greens. Pour broth, in which nettle was blanched. Put on a slow fire and languish for 15–20 minutes. Also added to the vitamin soup are pieces of river or sea fish, 2–3 peas of allspice and half a bay leaf. Passaged onion is poured into the dish 5 minutes before being removed from the stove so that the dressing is not digested and softened.

If a person with diabetes needs to lose weight, a topinambur and celery dietary soup will help. First, prepare the chicken broth. So that it is not too concentrated and fatty, it is necessary to remove skin from meat. The first portion of the liquid in which the breast or thigh was boiled is drained. The second broth is separated from the chicken and put in the oven.

While preparing the basis for the soup, in a separate pan, fry and bring to a soft state a mixture of ground pear and celery root. Root vegetables are taken in equal proportions and cut into large bars. In a similar way chopped onions. Vegetable mass is poured into a saucepan with chicken broth, seasoned with a mixture of bay leaf and black or red pepper, salted with salt and set at a temperature of 180 degrees.Take out in 15 minutes, interrupt the blender until homogeneous. In a plate with cream soup add finely chopped crackers.

Not all patients with diabetes will want to hire a thermos with the first dish. For such people, they invented a nutritious and vitamin paste made from earthen pear. It includes:

• slightly salted red fish - 100 g;
• unsweetened yogurt - 3 tbsp. l .;
• Jerusalem artichoke - 100 g;
• garlic - 1 head;
• low-fat cheese - 100 g

Salmon or salmon can be replaced with budget mackerel or hake, but then it is better to steam the component. Ground pear, cheese and salted fillet cut into small cubes. Cheese and garlic rub. It is much faster to combine all the products in the blender bowl, fill with yogurt and grind into a homogeneous mass. For a beautiful color and a pleasant smell in the paste add any greens. Parsley, cilantro and basil will do. A lot of spread on a thin layer of black or rye bread. Topinambur sandwiches satisfy hunger and stimulate insulin production.

Medicinal Drinks

In case of diabetes, it is useful to drink fresh juice from a pear. 150–300 ml daily before breakfast or lunch.The drink can be diluted with distilled water, mixed with carrot or apple juice, but only natural. Sugar or honey is forbidden.

To protect themselves from complications caused by diabetes, juice is taken in spring and autumn. The duration of treatment to improve the work of the pancreas is 7-10 days.

In the summer, when the body suffers from dehydration, they prepare topinambur tea. In the evening, 100 g of crushed raw root vegetables are poured into a thermos. Brew two cups of boiling water. Insist all night, and in the morning filter and divide into several portions.

In the autumn, it is recommended to do the preparation for medicinal tea. Ground pear cut into thin plates and dried in the oven or under a canopy. The main thing is that it should be protected from the sun's rays, because of which all useful components evaporate. The finished raw materials are ground and poured into a glass or plastic jar. Drink to reduce blood sugar is prepared from 1 tsp. brewing and cups of boiling water. Insist about 20 minutes. Drink three times a day before eating food.

In diabetes, they also use the stalks and leaves of Jerusalem artichoke.Green shoots are cut, dried and stored in a fabric bag. Measure out 1 tbsp. l blanks and brewed in a thermos 500 ml of boiling water. Drink in 2-3 hours. In the infusion of Jerusalem artichoke can not add honey, sugar and other sweeteners.

Earthen pear replace not only tea, but also instant coffee. Tubers are carefully washed under the tap, finely chopped and poured with boiling water for 4 minutes. The liquid is drained, the workpiece is dried on a paper towel, and then fried in a pan. It is better to take dishes with non-stick coating, because you can not use vegetable or butter. The pieces constantly stir and make sure that they do not overcook and burned. When the raw material becomes dry and decreases in volume, it is poured into a coffee grinder. The powder is stored in a tin and brewed exactly like instant coffee.

Other uses

Topinambur replace potatoes. Root vegetables are added to soups, baked in foil and fried in vegetable oil. Ground pears are mixed with broccoli, green beans, young peas and bell peppers. Stew, adding water or tomato juice. It turns out nourishing and healthy stew.

In diabetes, do not recommend to use sugar.Honey is allowed, but only small portions, not more than 50 g per day. Syrup from Jerusalem artichoke is added to tea, coffee and other beverages as a sweetener. Preparing it is not difficult:

1. Grind 1.5–2 kg of washed root vegetables. Squeeze the juice.
2. Pour the drink into a saucepan with a thick bottom, put on the minimum heat.
3. Heat up to 45-50 degrees. Above it is impossible that vitamins and microelements are not evaporated from the preform.
4. Boil the syrup for 10 minutes. Remove and cool, and then again put on the stove.

Freshly squeezed juice from the earthen pear is heated several times. Part of the workpiece must evaporate. The drink will be thick and viscous, like honey. Sometimes lemon juice is added to the syrup to give it a sour taste. Topinambur sweetener is stored in a glass jar with a tight lid.

It is recommended to use an earthen pear even by doctors. The product, of course, does not cure diabetes, but will improve the condition of the pancreas and the patient's well-being. The main thing is to cook topinambur soups, salads and casseroles at least 3-4 days a week, and then the sugar level in a patient with type 2 diabetes will always remain normal.

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