Mung sprouts salad and cherry tomatoes

Ingredients for "Salad sprouts mung bean and cherry tomatoes»:
Mash (seedlings) - 250 g
Onions - 1 pc
Yellow sweet pepper - 1 pc
Garlic -. 3 tooth
Cherry tomatoes - 6-7 pcs
Cilantro -. 1/2 beams
Soy sauce - 2 tbsp. l.
Vinegar (apple) - 1 tbsp. l.
Vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. l.

Onions cut into half rings, bell peppers into thin strips, finely chopped cilantro. Sprouts shift in a bowl and mix with chopped pepper.

Add the onion, cilantro. Garlic pass through chesnokodavilku and add sprouts.

Fill all the soy sauce and apple cider vinegar. All the mix.

Cherry tomatoes cut into quarters and add to the seedlings.

Mix well and let stand in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes all, salad ready. Bon appetit!

But now the interesting things about tomatoes and cherry tomatoes.

Homeland - South America, where they still are wild and polukulturnye shaped tomato. In the middle of the XVI century the tomato was in Spain, Portugal and then to Italy, France and other European countries. The earliest recipe tomato cookbook published in Naples in 1692 and the author refers to the fact that this recipe comes from Spain. In the XVIII century the tomato gets to Russia, where he first cultivated as an ornamental plant. Vegetable food crop plant was recognized due to Russian-uchenomu agronomist AT Bolotov (1738 -1833). For a long time tomatoes were considered inedible and even poisonous. European growers bred them as an exotic decorative plant. In American textbooks on botany entered history as the bribed the cook tried to poison dish of tomatoes George Washington. The future first president of the USA, tasted cooked dish, poshel continue to do business, and did not learn about the insidious betrayal.

Cherry tomatoes was withdrawn by the Israeli uchenymi in 1973. The aim of their work was slowing down the rapid aging of conventional tomatoes in hot climates. They identified a genetic combination that helps to slow down the ripening, as well as a way to use genes to derive received cherry tomatoes.

The difference between science and everyday life (cooking) the notion of fruit, berries, fruits, vegetables, in the case of tomato (and some other plants, such as cucumbers) leads to confusion. Tomatoes - tomato fruit - from the point of view of Botany - mnogognezdnye parakarpnye berries. In English there is no difference between the terms of fruit and fruit. In 1893, the US Supreme Court unanimously found that the charges There are customs duties should be considered tomatoes vegetables (although the court noted that a botanical point of view is the fruit tomatoes.). In 2001, the EU decided that tomatoes are not vegetables, and fruits. The Russian agricultural literature, as well as in everyday language, tomatoes (tomato fruits) are treated as vegetables.

Tomato today - one of the most popular crop because of its valuable nutritional and dietary qualities, a wide variety of grades, high responsiveness to the applied priemy cultivation. It is cultivated in the open ground, under plenochnymi shelters, greenhouses, hotbeds, balconies, loggias, and even in the room on the windowsills.