Warming food and drink, or what to drink and eat in winter

Here came a cold, and knowing our winter, they will end no earlier than April. In such weather, everyone is trying to keep warm, someone heater, and someone warm embrace. But the other uniquely pleasure came from the frost, eat a bowl of hot soup or a drink of warm tea. Today we will talk about what to eat and drink in winter to warm up faster.

In winter we need strength to the body can serve themselves from the inside. Keep heat inside keeps warming food and drink. And this is not something special and original, but only a certain set of products. For example, everyone knows that roasted meat heats not worse than vodka, but about the pumpkin is hardly think, meanwhile, pumpkin cream soup with croutons perfectly warm. From cereals is preferred buckwheat and oat, special isolating properties of vegetables are famous onions and radishes, and of the fruit - raisins and dried apricots. Smoked trout and tuna, lamb grilled chicken and game too, fall into the warm company. A special role in winter are spices. Your food and you will get the necessary energy from cinnamon, pepper, curry powder, dill, cumin, garlic.

As we have said, perfectly warm after winter Hiking meat dish is suppose goulash or something original, for example, Chile con carne - meat, beans and spicy chili - perfect after a cold day. Need to cook it in a frying pan with high margins. Fry the onions, peppers, garlic, paprika and cumin, and then add the ground beef and cook it for about 5-10 minutes Then fill broth, canned tomatoes, oregano, sugar, salt, pepper, tomato paste and cook on very low heat for 20 minutes. After that, add the beans, mix well, bring to boil and simmer over very low heat for 10 minutes, turn Off the fire and without covering the lid, let stand for 10-15 minutes the soup is ready!

Well warmed up in a cold soups. From an unusual offer you German айнтопф (translated as all in one pot) is a thick soup, which is cooked in water or broth. Ingredients can be potatoes, carrots, turnips and different kinds of cabbage. You must include legumes : peas, lentils, beans, green bean pods, plus smoked food, sausage or other meat products. Cook soup quite simply - the onion is fried on a frying pan, combine the chopped carrot slices, pears and potatoes. All pour the broth, add the Bay leaf and sliced corned beef. The cooker close and simmer the soup 5 minutes, then season with spices. The finished dish, sprinkle with parsley and drink a cold winter evening.

Well, and what is winter without real borscht. Recipes for this dish there is probably hundreds, but they're all warm from the cold. Take, for example, soup with smoked goose or duck. Fried vegetables (beets, potatoes, cabbage, tomato, pepper) pour the broth, put smoked goose or duck and cook until ready. 10-15 minutes before end of cooking borsch with salt and dress with white sauce, crushed garlic, Bay leaf, pepper, sugar and vinegar to taste. When filing on the table in the soup to put a piece of birds, sour cream and sprinkle with herbs.

In addition to food, excellent warm and cold and strong drinks. They can be as alcoholic - mulled wine, punch, punch, Mead, Todd, and soft - herbal infusions with spices, teas, Russian sbiten, drinks on the basis of chocolate and coffee. The most simple and widespread warming drink is tea. In order to strengthen the heating effect it can be combined with a mixture of spices, or add any one, for example - ginger. It is better to use fresh root, instead of powder. If you want to drink - RUB ginger on a coarse grater, and if you want a taste easier - shred as chips. Well, the easiest option is to make tea even more warming - add honey and lemon. Since ancient times known such a warming drink as tea Menshikov. Of course, the involvement of the Prince to the creation of this recipe by anyone not confirmed, but that did not diminish its warming properties. For the beverage need 3 cups of strong brewed black tea, a Cup of honey and a glass of vodka. All the ingredients you need to mix, bring to a boil and immediately drink. Traditional warming drink in Russia was considered sbiten. It included as a mandatory component includes honey, and for a specific taste add a variety of spices and herbs - marjoram, St. John's wort, sage, you can also add cloves, cinnamon and ginger. Technology of preparation сбитня is very simple: spices need to boil in a small amount of water a couple of minutes, add the boiling water, throw grass, turn the heat off and push for a few minutes. Honey can be put in the «common pot», and you can add his mug, in this case, it can preserve its useful properties.

There is nothing better than to get in the chair, muffled in a plaid and sipping mulled wine. Cook it is not difficult. For a basis, as a rule, are taken red wine or ale. As a spice additives use the cinnamon and cloves. Sometimes more strong drink rum, brandy, liqueur, but in very small quantities, so it wouldn't changed flavor, but was added fragrance. All this to mix and boil, ready mulled wine, you can add the lemon zest and drink is ready. A bit more complicated in the preparation of punch, it is important to follow the cooking temperature and consistency of mixing the ingredients to drink not lost in the taste. The main components of punch which consists of wine, rum, honey, sugar, water and fruit juice. For an Amateur, you can add spices, such as cinnamon or cloves. The most important rule during the preparation of punch - not pour hot water into the brandy or rum, because of this they lose their essential and aromatic substances, which reflects badly on the taste of the finished drink. First in hot water to dissolve sugar, give syrup to cool, then add rum or brandy. All this mix to bring up to 65 -70 degrees, then pour into glasses and bask.