Armenian recipes for healthy lifestyle supporters

If anyone thinks that Armenian national cuisine It consists only of heavy meat dishes like kebab, khash, dolma, kufta or basturma, then he is wrong. Traditional Armenian cuisine has many light dishes that are not only easy to digest, but also useful.

And today's edition. "Site" He will tell about 3 light Armenian dishes. Moreover, each such meal will represent its own category, which means that everyone will be able to choose the option to their taste.



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Armenian dishes “Without cereals, local cuisine is impossible to imagine.” This product has been revered at all times. From cereals baked bread, prepared different types of pilaf. The vitamins D, B, E and fiber contained in them were valued by our ancestors as much as we value today, says nutritionist Vardanush Petrosyan.

A special pilaf is prepared from cereal crops in Armenia, which is considered a dietary dish. Of course, there is no place for meat here, and it is prepared from local cereal - half, which, if desired, can be easily found in our market.





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• 500g half
• 200g champignon
• 200g ghee
• 3-4 medium bulbs
• salt

Preparation

1. Roast half a third of the ghee for 3 minutes. Then pour drinking water (in the proportion of 1 part of the half to 1.5 parts of water) and boil 30-40 minutes until soft.
2. In the remaining ghee, roast a finely chopped onion to a golden color. Add the cut mushrooms and roast all together for another 5 minutes.
3. Put on a plate cooked half, on top add roasted mushrooms with onions.
   
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You can't do it. Armenian cuisine And without legumes, where beans, chickpeas and lentils stand out in popularity.

“In the cold winter, it is not customary to slaughter livestock, so we have to look for a replacement for animal protein. Hence the demand for protein-rich legumes, explains Vardanush Petrosyan.

We offer to prepare a dish "Vana Mshosh" made of lentils, which is massively prepared in Western Armenia since time immemorial.

The ingredients

• 1 cup of lentils
• 1 medium head of onion
• 4 apricots
• 2 tbsp sunflower oil
• 2 tbsp crushed walnut kernels
• salt, pepper, parsley to taste

Preparation

1. Boil the lentils until half ready. Ambassadory.
2. Finely chopped onions roast to a golden color.
   
   
   
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3. Add the nuts along with apricots and roasted onions to the lentils. Make it 10-15 minutes.
4. Serve on the table, pepper the dish and decorate with parsley.

And to complete our dietary mini-selection, we suggest preparing a traditional dairy dish - panrhash (boiled cheese). It's just as easy to prepare. And here the main role is given to cheese - the decoration of any Armenian table. When buying cheese, a real Armenian will never save or sacrifice the quality of the product.

The ingredients

• 300g cheese
• 300g of lava
• 100g onions
• water, butter to taste

Preparation

1. Cut the onion finely, roast it in butter until golden. Sprinkle and pepper.
2. Slice lavash right into the plate with small squares. Just grind the cheese into strips.
   
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3. Put a portion of lavash and cheese in the plate, add 1 tablespoon of roasting and pour boiling water so that the water barely covers the dish.
4. Stir and start tasting. Bon appetit!

Feature of panrhash The fact is that everyone collects a dish to their taste right in their plate. When the hosts invite a guest to the house, they give him a set of ingredients, not a finished dish. And for the dish traditionally served pottery.





DepositPhotos Armenian cuisine It is much more diverse than we think. And even on this dietary mini-collection, this could only be seen once again.

By the way, we have already told you how to properly leaven cabbage in Armenian. But if you do not like diet dishes, and you still want to try something really Armenian, then prepare soup-hash, which is customary to eat with your hands.

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