Today is the World Day of eggs and this unofficial holiday lovers of fried eggs and omelettes. It was established in 1996 by the International Egg Commission conference in Vienna.
No wonder that the egg gets its own holiday, as the egg symbolizes the beginning of life.
And the eggs - the most versatile food product, they are popular in cooking of all cultures and countries, largely due to the fact that their use may be the most diverse.
Egg dishes like in many countries, they are boiled, fried, drink, and even added to alcoholic beverages.
As the eggs cook soup, breakfast, drink and a sandwich - later in the article.
Oyakodon, Japan
It is a kind of traditional Japanese dishes donburi, which is a round bowl with rice, supplemented with different ingredients - from meat to eel.
Say oyakodon invented in Osaka more than 100 years ago, when thrown on rice chicken with vegetables and egg filled them. This dish can be not only breakfast, but also lunch and dinner.
Club sandwich, USA
He - a symbol of the mixing of English and American cuisine as well as a sandwich has English roots, but the club sandwich consisting of bread triangles refers to the popular American cuisine.
Required ingredients - chicken, eggs, lettuce, ham and cheese. Traditionally served with french fries for breakfast or during lunch.
Strachatella, Italy
Italian soup with semolina, eggs and grated Parmesan cheese popular in Rome and its surroundings. Traditionally strachatella preparing for Easter, but it is able to vary the lunch menu on any given day.
The soup is cooked with chicken or meat broth for a few minutes. Food writer, a famous Italian chef Ada Boni argues that strachatellu often seasoned with marjoram. Decorate the dish can be leaves of parsley and serve - with fried bread.
Khachapuri Adjara, Georgia
One of the most famous Georgian dishes in Russia. It is, of course, not diet, but sometimes you can indulge in a high-calorie meal. Ideally, the dough needs to be done on yogurt, but you can do kefir or yogurt. For the filling traditionally take a mixture of suluguni and Adygei cheese.
Culinary blogger from Georgia Tinatin Mzhavanadze shares a few secrets of this Adjarian khachapuri:
- test proportion and the cheese must be 1: 1;
- crust should be golden and the inside - soft and fully-baked;
- when you eat, "boat", you should have a sense of satiety, but at the same time - to keep the desire to eat another one.
Eggs Benedict with bacon, USA
Beautiful and easy recipe for a French breakfast, come to us from New York. Authorship belongs to the broker Lemuel Benedict. According to legend, he went to have breakfast at the restaurant of one of the New York hotel and asked for toast with bacon and poached egg, hollandaise sauce flavored with.
The maitre d 'order is executed, and the recipe written down. It is known that he was a Frenchman, and therefore decided to replace the boiled egg in the refined poached and American toast - fried crispy English muffin.
So regular sandwich has become a gourmet dish.
The undoubted advantage is the simplicity of its preparation. On a dry frying pan fried buns, put on top of fried bacon, poached egg, and it all poured out of the egg yolks and butter sauce. Serve with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Eggs on the Scottish, UK
This British cuisine created in London at the beginning of the XIX century. "In Scottish" eggs are called simply because initially this snack has only been used a first-class Scottish beef.
To prepare the needed boiled "in the bag" egg, minced meat, a little flour and bread crumbs. The original recipe is added to the stuffing thyme and parsley. Each egg is necessary to roll in the stuffing and fry in oil until golden brown crumbs. Excess fat after frying, you can wet a paper towel. There is a dish can be both hot and cold.
Whiskey sour, USA
And, you can cook a noble alcoholic cocktail, one of whose ingredients are eggs. drink recipe invented by Jerry Thomas - one of the most famous bartenders in the entire history of American mixology father nicknamed "Professor". In 1862 he published the book "How to mix drinks, or Satellite bon vivant". There is mentioned Whiskey sour.
The traditional recipe used bourbon, but at home it can be replaced by any blended whiskey. Also includes egg whites, fresh lemon juice, sugar syrup and ice. Ready cocktail can be decorated with a slice of orange and a cocktail cherry. He will not leave you indifferent, as a strong drink in moderation, but slightly sour taste and foam of egg whites make it taste incredibly gentle.
Over the past decade, the egg has been said a lot of bad, but recent research has shown that absolutely no need to avoid eggs consumption.
They contain high-value easily digestible protein, lots of nutrients needed by the body substances, including essential vitamins and minerals, and antioxidants that help some diseases.
And, contrary to popular belief, eggs do not raise cholesterol levels.
Therefore, to eat one egg a day is even possible.
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