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For the first time and even before agriculture was used by the Greek food resources better "Nuts" was a stable food and nutritional source in the diet of manhood in the dark ages. During these periods, the nuts were plentiful because there was not much more than forests current and beloved for its easy storage, allowing people to avoid the times when food was hard to find. (Winter season rain, etc.).
There is evident that the second century BC, the Romans distributed sweets on special occasions such as weddings and births.
Nuts have their place in all cultures and in almost every cuisine from around the world. The nuts are prized by people of all ages for its subtle flavor and rich fats and carbohydrates. The subtle taste that counts when creating new dishes and variations.
AND DESCRIPTION species
In the category of nuts, we understand a seed of a legume or tuber. Peanuts, for example, is a legume, the Brazil nuts and macadamia nuts are the seeds and almonds are the seeds of a fruit like a peach.
Botanically nuts are one seeded fruit with a tough leather or shells containing edible seed that is enclosed in a soft inner skin.
Speaking generally all nut trees grow slowly but live longer. walnut trees, chestnut or walnut continue to produce nuts, often more than one hundred years after sowing.
Walnut trees of all kinds are found throughout the world. Almonds, for example, live in California, Spain, Morocco, Italy and even Australia, although nuts can be anywhere in North America in the Andes and from Persia to Australia. Asia also has a variety of nuts. nuts ginkgo in China, candle nuts in Indonesia and Malaysia, coconut in southern Asia, cashew nuts in India and Malaysia and the Philippines, China and Japan chestnuts and chestnut water is in China, Japan, Korea and the East Indies.
Some of the best NUTS TO KNOW:
ALMOND
Scientific view the kernel and stone fruits, a bit like cherries, peaches and plums.
Because most people only know that the seed (stone) of the fruit, it is generally accepted as a nut.
Kernel in the eyes of small trees and green peaches. When ripe the shell opens and reveals nuts on his helmet.
There are different varieties of almonds.
The bitter almond is actually the kernel of the apricot, which was found in the wild in China since the end of the Tang Dynasty (619-907 AD).
The apricot was taken even to Europe and became the fruit of the apricot, which is now known worldwide. The core of the bitter almond is toxic in its natural state and must be boiled quickly and poaching in the oven before being used thereafter. It is mainly used in Chinese desserts such as almond bean curd.
The sweet almond is generally limited to fresh consumption. In 1986, California alone produces 70,000 tons of almonds, which is half of world production. The almond has been cultivated in the Mediterranean since ancient times and can still be found wild in Algeria and throughout the Black Sea. sweet almond can buy everything, peeled, halved with skin, skin, flaked, blanched, flaked or ground with salt. they used for snacks, marzipan, sweet desserts, and liquor for the production of gasoline, oil and cosmetics.
Bunya Bunya Pine
The tree Bunya Bunya is a member of the family of the pines and grows almost anywhere in Australia. An original trees in the area of Brisbane and Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia. Only female trees produce a nut 2 cm x 2.5 cm in the pine apple.
In ancient times, the food Bunya Bunya pine is stable for Aboriginal and is also used in ceremonies. These days, the gain in popularity due to the tendency of nuts indigenous foods of Australia (Bush food) in recent years.
Walnuts are rich in carbohydrates is similar to the chestnut, and therefore used more as a potato, a nut. Bunya Bunya Nuts can be eaten raw, but are usually boiled to facilitate removal of the skin. shelled nuts are fried in butter and flavored with pepper or sugar Or added to stews and soups.
RED NUT BOPPLE
The nuts are red bopple a relative of the macadamia nuts and a native of the rainforest east coast of Australia.
The nut is roughly the size of a walnut and has a thickness (1 cm 0.5 cm 0), with a woody shell bright red skin exterior appears only if the nut is ripe.
In contrast to the nuts most of the other, red bopple nut is very low in fat but rich in calcium and potassium. low-fat nuts easier to digest. The nuts are eaten raw or roasted.
COCO
"He who plants a coconut tree" the saying goes, "plant foods and beverages, glasses and clothing, a home for himself and a heritage for their children." In fact, every part of the coconut used, but only the coconut milk and coconut meat are foods. The shell is used as coal, the bark is used to make ropes, clothes and brushes, and the trunk of tree leaves are used for roofs of houses and construction materials, respectively.
The palm fruit "Cocos nucifera" has a core of edible and is therefore considered a nut. The palm is native to the Philippines, Malaysia, Brazil and Indonesia, and can produce 50 to 100 units per year, in a life of 70 years. The Coconut palms grow best near the sea, but they have shown support height, although the production rate decreases as the sea beyond the tree grows.
The large green sheath surrounding thick fibrous brown envelope around a brown shell, which contains a layer of soft white flesh and clear water in the center. Sub-species only on an island in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, produces a nut often weighing over 20 kg, you need 10 years to mature.
Nuts Coconut is the worlds most widely used commercially nuts. Especially meat, or copra as it is known after drying in the sun, is of vital importance for countries to export industry coconut producers. Coconut is an important source of food, especially in Southeast Asia, India, Brazil and South Pacific islands.
Copra can be taken grated or dried and used in sweets, ice cream and coat chicken or fish to fry. As much as it is pressed for oil is also known as coconut butter in the form of white fat at room temperature. Not only used for cooking and to make margarine, but also goes into soaps, detergents, shampoo, facial creams, perfumes and candles.
It is also an important ingredient in the glycerin, synthetic rubber, safety glass and brake fluid. Coconut milk is the juice or juice Natural nut, but no water inside the coconut. It was won by grinding the coconut, then add the water and forcing the mixture through a cotton cloth. Coconut milk has the perfect consistency and the color of skim milk is available canned or frozen.
CANDLE NUT
The nut of the sail is named, which thread or central vein of a palm leaf, used a primitive candle. More recently, the nuts have been based on a paste, mixed with coconut (coconut meat) and ten formed in a candle.
Candlenuts are the seeds of sailing Berry Tree Indonesia and Malaysia, but largely widespread throughout Southeast Asia, South Pacific and Sri Lanka.
The nut has a very high fat content and is appreciated for the oil extracted from lighting and cooking. The walnut color is gray to black, about 5 cm in diameter, a thin papery envelope containing one or two nuts.
oil for lighting nervous man is extracted by roasting the nuts when they are only half adult cooking oil is extracted by roasting the nuts when ripe. For human consumption, the nuts should be roasted as a raw material times have been causing the disease.
candle roasted nuts are ripe, then hit a meal and mixed with salt, pepper and shrimp paste used in the curry spice curry or spicy. Traditionally, the Javanese have toasted nuts to eat at all.
PALM NUT
The Palmyra palm native to most Southeast Asian countries produces a hard, glossy, of which a sugary sap or gel is removed. Although this sap is used in the kitchen of Indonesia for soups and desserts, the product is well known from other are beginning to Palmyra palm – palm sugar (Gula Melacca).
There are no reliable data on the nutritional value of palm kernel, but it is well known that fat saturated.
Macadamia
Originally from Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, the macadamia nut the name of Dr. John McAdam a scientist and an early promoter Australian culture.
Macadamia trees are evergreen and reach a height of up to 20 meters. Edible seeds of the silk tree has a shell oat hard brown, 2-3 cm in diameter.
In 1888, macadamia trees were planted in Hawaii, where attention cloning and hybridization became an important commercial product.
Today, macadamia nuts are also grown in South Africa, Zimbabwe, California and parts of Latin South and Central.
It is very hard to break a macadamia shell is very hard and tight to the base when the Nutcracker is broken. In Hawaii, American scientist developed a way to separate the core of the shell drops them on the drying trays. It then developed the first commercial cracking. With these two events macadamia nut could be formed in the commercial importance it has today.
It is also why macadamias are already available, shell. macadamia nuts is also appreciated for macadamia nuts and nut butter oil.
They are available roasted and salted. When buying macadamia nuts, given the attention they are packed in watertight bags or vacuum air as easily become rancid when opened.
Macadamia nuts are used to keep vinegar or as a snack, but also gaining popularity in the kitchen because they taste very sweet and subtle, adding texture to salads and hot dishes. It has excellent oil dressing and cold sauces.
Water chestnuts
The name refers to a nut like tubers of an aquatic plant called Trapa. Plants are common to several regions of the world, but are used mainly in Japan, China and Thailand, where he is also a sought ingredient in your kitchen.
The plant Trappe roots in ponds and lakes and sends his "sheets of the surface like a lily leaf. The water chestnut grows in the roots under the water's surface. Chestnuts water are flat and round with a diameter of 5-7 cm. They have a black skin soft and white meat similar to beef and coconut. Once peeled, they can be eaten raw or dried and are ingredients liked the taste because of its crisp, sweet and subtle. water chestnut are also cooked and transformed into flour, which is used to thicken sauces and dishes such as corn starch.
BROWN
The chestnuts are believed to have originated in Southern Europe and Persia, but also produced in China, Japan and North America.
The nuts are shiny brown leather case. that can be eaten raw, but most are consumed cooked baked or broiled, or mashed sweet chestnuts or not. They are also sold in syrup and brown ice.
Chestnuts are the nuts, which are treated as a vegetable, because they contain more starch (30%) and less fat 3%.
Chestnuts are also in a food rich in fiber and starch.
Cashew
West Indian and native to northern Brazil, Portuguese explorers brought the nut from India and Malaysia and parts of Africa.
The hard shell nut growing in the cashew apple. When ripe, cashews at the end of the apple red or yellow. The cashew is a member Family poison ivy and farmers must be careful when removing the nuts. The hard shell contains an oil that can irritate the skin, then nuts heated to remove the core. The smoke and steam, which, however can still be harmful to skin and eyes. When heated cashews are harmless and can be removed.
GINKGO NUT
The ginkgo is the prehistoric maidenhair tree, which survives as a wild tree in China.
The fruit resembles a shell plum has a small but bad and bitter. The Chinese are waiting for the helmet full of odors then paint the nuts and use them to decorate the party, before cracking open the nuts to eat. In Japan and Korea, ginkgo nuts are grilled kebabs, making the yellow color of green nuts. In China, ginkgo nut is a popular ingredient in vegetarian dishes. The nuts are available fresh or canned.
Hazelnut
Bush hazel nut is native to Europe and America North and has been mentioned in the writings of 2838 BC, and was credited with wrought many evils of man and to be considered excellent for bold and use it as a tonic for the hair. Some say the name comes from St. Philibert Philibert, a French priest, whose feast day August 22 coincides with the maturation of nuts the first time in the hemisphere north.
Hazelnuts are very hard shell, which must be cracked a nutcracker, before reaching the core. nuts are available raw blanched or roasted, chopped, ground, and the kitchen and hazelnut liqueur.
MANI
The peanut is not a nut case. It is the seed of a leguminous plant whose shell is soft, brown and brittle belong to the botanical family of beans and peas. But they are generally taken into account with the nuts, as they are physical characteristics and nutritional value. The nuts grow on the roots of many plants and below ground. The peanut is native to Brazil and has been found there since the first record in the year 950 BC.
Today, peanuts are grown in the tropics around the world (India, China, West Africa, Australia and the United States is the largest peanut developing countries). Peanut oil production excellent, used for salads and cold dishes and for frying. Peanuts also produce peanut butter, margarine, and is also used in canned sardines. The peanuts are available together, shell and skin raw or roasted. Peanuts are used in all varieties in all kinds of desserts salad plates.
Sprockets
These are the edible seeds pine and grow into the cone. The pines are in the southern United States, Mexico and around the Mediterranean Sea. It is very difficult to establish an arts industry that trees are growing very slowly and does not bear much fruit to 75 years.
Pine nuts are mainly obtained first, then grilled, fried or grilled. oil pine nuts are used for the cosmetic industry. pinion flour used in baking.
Pistachio
The pistachio is a small core and green tree that grows in the pistachio in Syria, Palestine and Persia.
The natural color of the shell is grayish white, but sometimes they are dyed nuts red to cover part of the color.
The pistachio is now cultivated in India, Europe, North Africa, Mexico, USA and the Far East. Pistachios are typically sold in the shell or shelled and peeled.
The seed is greenish used for flavoring in cooking, candy and ice.
WALNUT
Walnut is related to the walnut and walnut and grows anywhere in North America, the Andes and Europe to China. English walnuts, hickory and walnut are all nuts, talking about vegetables. Anyone who shells of various nuts and almonds, but walnuts English with its rough, wrinkled yellow and brown shell is the most popular core and commonly known as "Walnut."
The nuts are bought in the shell or shell, and are prized for their oil, used for cooking and salads and dressing.
Other commonly used are NUTS:
Macadamia)
Bunya Bunya Pine Nuts) in Australia
Red Bobble Nut)
Candle nuts) Malaysia
Palm kernel) Philippines, Brazil
Coco) in Indonesia, China
Water Chestnut)
Brazil nuts) South America
Beech Nuts) U.S.
Pecans) North America
Nutrition and information
Walnuts are rich in fat (40-60%) and fiber diet (5-15%) moderate amount of protein (2-25%) and small amounts of starch (10%). As mentioned above except chestnuts are a to this general rule.
The fats in nuts are mostly monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats and contain no cholesterol in nuts are harvested plants. Only coconut and palm nuts contain saturated fats.
Significant amounts of minerals are found in nuts, including zinc, calcium, iron, phosphorus and magnesium.
They also contain vitamins and vitamins like thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin E and C.
Nuts contain very little natural sodium and high potassium, which in this constellation is recommended to control blood pressure.
Unfortunately, nuts are often sold as salted snacks, which upsets the natural balance, and consumption of salted nuts more people making a lot of fat and salt.
Nuts also are a great source of energy and often used in food for athletes.
It is used in moderate amounts of unsalted nuts in the forms are nutritionally valuable food.
Use the nuts for the professional chef
You do not know where to start, where to collect information on the use of nuts and related products with nut entertainment today. In kitchens, there is no limit on the amount of dishes and creations of a chef can use other fruits or products of nuts. Tickets salads, soups and desserts, cheese, fish, pasta, meat and vegetables, nuts are very versatile and have more flavor to texture and flavor first to adopt subtle and crispy almost all drugs dispensed as a supplement.
nut oils are also widely used for dressings, frying and the taste of cold and hot dishes. Spirits nuts can be a welcome addition to savory sauces, cream sauces and pastries, marzipan and other fruit pastes are used often to produce chocolate and confectionery. In Indian cuisine, a cashew nut paste is often used to thicken curries and sauces. Due to the wide dissemination of nuts around the world, the nuts are used in almost every cuisine known and nutritional value in an asset for both schemes since the old days.
At the point of sale of drinks, nuts are used as lacquers (hazelnut, almond) and liquid (coconut milk) and as an appetizer accompanied by beverages (salted nuts)
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