1. CHICORY - BENEFITS AND USES OF CHICORY
Benefits And Uses of Chicory
Chicory is often eaten like celery or roasted and used with, or in place of, coffee. It's also used as a sedative, mild
diuretic, laxative, and digestive agent to manage indigestion or dyspepsia. Chicory is used as a salad green. It's been used
in the past to treat cardiac arrhythmias; however, no human trials support this.
Clinical considerations
Chicory is generally recognized as safe. Monitor blood pressure and heart rate in patient who's using it for its
therapeutic effects, and advise patient to immediately report any heart abnormalities to his health care provider.
Handling chicory can cause contact dermatitis.
Advise patient to watch for adverse reactions, especially sedation and contact dermatitis.
Warn patient not to perform activities that require mental alertness until central nervous system effects are known.
Tell patient to remind prescriber and pharmacist of any herbal or dietary supplement that he's taking when obtaining a
new prescription.
Advise patient to consult his health care provider before using an herbal preparation because a treatment with proven
efficacy may be available.
Supreme of guinea hen in chicories and in hypocras
Ingredients:
6 suprêmes de pintade
huile et beurre pour le rôtissage
1 douzained'endives
100 g de sucre
sel, poivre
1/2 jus de citron
50 g de beurre
2 dl de fond brun de volailleou de veau
1/2 dl d'hypocras
Hypocras :
1 litre de vin rouge
2 bâtons de vanille
1 bâton de cannelle
150 g de framboises
1 c. à café de muscademoulue
6 clous de girofle
Method:
Boil all ingredients of the hypocras (wine, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and clove), then withdraw some fire and let brew at 1
night. Having made a caramel with 200 g of sugar, décuisez with the seasoned wine, by filtering it across a strainer, then
let reduce up to thickening. Made go back the sliced thinly chicories(recette aux truffesnoires), without trunks, in 50 g of
butter. Season of salt, pepper, lemon juice and sugar, will you blend and cook in lively fire, from 15 to 20 mn? Chicories
must be almost caramelized, or even confites. Season, then roast the supreme of guinea hen in the butter and in oil, end
baking in the oven by watering from time to time. After 5 - 6 mn, take them out from the frying pan and let rest 5 mn.
Made reduce the brown bottom, with the hypocras, to the point of acquiring a treacly consistency. Raise chicories on
plates, put down the supreme and glaze them with sauce.