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Pickles: a Healthy Snack With Snap
Pickles are a popular snack, side dish, and condiment. But did you know that pickles are also a healthy part of your diet? There are many different pickle recipes out there, but each version has its own healthy benefits depending on the ingredients that went into the pickle and the method used for pickling, whether fermented or packed with vinegar. Pickles are great for most diets because not only are they low in calories, and low in fat or fat-free, many versions are also low in sugar.
Pickles are also a healthy edition to your diet for other reasons. Pickles, being made from cucumbers or other vegetables, are high in fiber which is necessary for digestive health and fighting cancer. The cucumbers and other vegetables also contain antioxidants, which fight free-radicals, and depending on the veggie, can be a good source of calcium, magnesium, and iron. The recommendation by most health professionals is to eat five servings of vegetables and fruit each day. Eating pickles is a great way to get a daily serving or two of your five-a-day!
The spices with which pickles are made are also healthy. For example, dill and garlic, both of which are popular in pickles, both have the ability to regulate bacterial growth. Dill and other spices also contain flavonoids, which is a healing addition to your diet. Mustard seeds are known to be good for digesting foods and even turmeric powder has medicinal properties and is believed to lower rates of Alzheimer's disease.
Fermented pickles also have good bacteria that can control harmful intestinal microbes. When pickles are fermented, lactic acid is created. This acid helps to lower fat in the bloodstream, improve circulation, and lower high blood pressure. It also helps to support a healthy digestive system, reintroduces good bacteria into the intestines, such as Lactobacillus acidophilus, and is beneficial for diabetics. In fact, one study even found that eating fermented products regularly contributed to lower rates of skin problems, asthma, and auto-immune disorders.
Many pickles are made with vinegars. This healthy liquid has several positive properties in addition to its tangy taste. Vinegar is known to boost the immune system, ease digestive disorders, and can break down calcium deposits in a person's joints. In addition, vinegar is known to decrease high blood pressure, and help treat urinary infections. It is even said to re-mineralize your bones, balance your blood pH, and fight infection. Vinegar is also anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. It inhibits the growth of the E.coli bacteria, and when used in conjunction with salt, which is common in pickling, the anti-bacterial properties are amplified.
Another common item used for pickling is apple cider vinegar. It has several additional health benefits as well. Not only does it contain several minerals, thirty-plus nutrients, and pectin, which is good for your heart, it also contains several essential amino acids, all of which are a great addition to your diet.
Pickles can be a tasty snack eaten with the confidence that you're having something healthy at the same time – what could be better? Hey, even Aristotle, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, and Cleopatra believed in the health benefits of the pickle, and Hippocrates utilized it for one of the first medicines! So if you ever needed a reason to eat more pickles, now you have it.
Copyright 2006 Jonathan Heusman
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These are Some of the Ingredients for Making Pickle Recipe
Pickles are a delicacy that is eaten in almost all parts of the world. Pickle enhances the taste of meals. It is a side dish as well as an appetizer. They are easy to prepare. Various ingredients are used and tasty pickles are prepared which last longer even for 1 to 2 years without hampering the taste. Pickle recipe is easy to make at home without any difficulty.
Pickle recipe varies from place to place in the world. In America pickles are made from cucumber and vinegar. The brine helps fermentation and the pickle lasts for a longer period. Kosher, dill, meat, fish are some of the other pickle recipes that are made in the continent. Cucumber pickles, kosher pickles and dill pickles can be made with following ingredients. Some ingredients may vary.
1. 2 cups medium sized cucumbers
2. 1 cup onions
3. 1 cup vinegar
4. ¼ cup kosher salt
5. 1 cup water
6. ¾ cup sugar
7. ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
8. 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
9. ½ teaspoon ginger
10. ½ teaspoon celery seeds
Wash the cucumbers well and slice them. Mix the onions, salt and cucumbers well. Let the mixture stand for about 2 hours. Drain off the liquid. Mix the ingredients in a large cooking pot and cook them properly. Add to the pot cucumbers and onions. Boil them for about 5 to 10 minutes until they are crisp and tender. Place them in sterilized jars and store for a month. After a month the pickle is ready to eat.
Same pickle recipe can be followed with cauliflower, onions and many other vegetables in place of cucumber.
Pickle recipe using limes is also very easy to make. However instead of vinegar, oil and salt mixture is used. The ingredients for making the lime pickle are as follows
1. Limes (6 to 7 nos)
2. salt to taste
3. vegetable oil
4. 1 tablespoon chili powder
5. Garlic cloves (5 to 6 nos)
6. Ginger flakes
7. 1 tablespoon turmeric
8. 2 teaspoons powdered fenugreek
Wash the limes well and fry them in a pan containing oil until the peels are brown in color. Slice the limes retaining the juice. Take oil in another cooking pot. Put turmeric, chili powder, salt, garlic, ginger and fenugreek and cook well. Seasoning should be checked properly. Cool the mixture and then add the lime slices. Mix the mixture well so that all the pieces are covered with the seasoning. Store the pickle in sterilized jars for some time until it settles down. After the settling period, the pickle can be eaten off the jars.
The same pickle recipe is applicable to raw mango pickle, carrot, ginger, onion etc.
Thus it can be seen that although the ingredients vary, the pickle recipe remains as it is. There is no change in the procedure what so ever. The pickles not only taste good but are also filling when eaten as appetizers. Their spicy and tangy taste is liked by all and hence it is such a famous dish.
About the Author
Muna wa Wanjiru Has Been Researching and Reporting on Pickles for Years. For More Information on Pickle Recipe, Visit His Site at Pickle Recipe
