To give his mustard to everything: With it we allude today to the fact that someone announces its opinion to everything unasked. In the 17th century, when this idiom came into circulation, real mustard was still meant. This was so precious and sought-after by our ancestors that a host who could afford it would add it to any dish without being asked – regardless of whether or not mustard went with the recipe. Today, mustard enhances a variety of dishes – whether curried sausage with mustard, steak with a mustard marinade or as an ingredient in salad dressing. What is in mustard, how it affects health and ideas for recipes with mustard read here.
Mustard promotes digestion
Mustard is mainly used as a spice. However, it is healthy not only as an addition to certain foods, also externally applied the mustard was already attributed by the oldest cultures a healing effect. The main ingredients mustard oil and sinalbin in white mustard and sinigrin in brown and black mustard are responsible for the pungency. However, this is only produced during manufacture with the addition of liquid. The pungent taste stimulates our appetite and aids digestion, which is why mustard is particularly recommended as an addition to fatty foods such as bratwurst.
Mustard: healthy in many ways
In addition, mustard is attributed various other effects on health:
- Mustard has an anti-inflammatory and antibiotic effect.
- The consumption of mustard regulates blood pressure
- A mustard bath against colds has proven especially because of the diaphoretic and strong circulatory effect
- Against bronchitis help compresses made from mustard flour
- With rheumatism or similar complaints provides a mustard plaster from the pharmacy for relief
Make mustard yourself
To make the mustard paste, which is mainly used in our country, the seeds of white, brown or black mustard. The darker these are, the sharper the taste. If you want to make mustard yourself, however, you usually resort to mustard flour for the sake of simplicity. The inherent calorie content can vary greatly depending on the variety and additions. Basically, the spicy variety has fewer calories than the mild. However, those who want to make mustard themselves to lose weight healthily and control the ingredients in their food often have the problem that white mustard seeds are more readily available in health food stores than dark ones.
Delicious and healthy: mustard recipes
If you want to try a mustard recipe, you can indeed easily resort to ready-made products from the supermarket. But to make mustard yourself is also worthwhile, because so it is usually much more aromatic. The basic ingredients are:
- Mustard seeds or mustard flour
- Water
- Vinegar
- Salt
- Sugar
To these you can add any additions, depending on the recipe. By the way, the Dijon mustard is traditionally added verjus, juice from unripe grapes, instead of vinegar. Sweet mustard, as it classically accompanies Bavarian veal sausage, contains additional sweet ingredients beyond the basic ingredients, such as applesauce, honey, sweetener or brown sugar. Mustard has long been eaten with more than just hot dogs or fatty meats. Mustard sauce or even mustard-honey sauce is well suited for refining fish dishes. Who likes the sweet honey mustard, can make use of the combination “honey and mustard” in many ways: mustard dressing made from olive oil, white wine vinegar, honey, finely chopped parsley, vegetable broth powder as well as pepper (and of course mustard, preferably medium hot) is not only suitable for any salads, but also taste great with tofu steak.
Recipe for mustard party
But not only mustard dressing and mustard sauce also please vegetarians, try the following recipe for mustard celebration:
- Half a tube of medium hot mustard
- Eight eggs
- 50 grams of butter
- Three to four tablespoons flour
- 500 milliliters of vegetable broth
- Sea salt and pepper
- Potatoes
Boil the peeled potatoes as usual. In parallel, hard boil the eggs (for about eight minutes) and quench with cold water. In a saucepan, melt the butter, then add flour and mustard. Then gradually add vegetable broth. Now simmer the mustard sauce at low temperature until the desired creaminess is reached. Finally, season to taste with salt and pepper. Add the peeled eggs to the mustard sauce and bring to the boil briefly.Then serve the mustard celebration with the potatoes.