Simple recipes with bran

When you make up your diet, be sure to include bran in it, as it consists of dietary fiber, and it can activate intestinal motility. The effect of bran in preventing constipation is much stronger than the effect of vegetables and fruits. In this publication, we will tell you simple recipes with bran

Fiber is a key component of the diet for people suffering from constipation.

In the Middle Ages, a certain Ibn Sina, in order to prevent constipation, suggested eating only coarsely ground bread, which contains bran, and also cooking porridge from unmilled grain. After all, coarsely ground bran, although it is less digestible by the stomach, retains more medicinal properties than finely ground bran. All the properties and possibilities of dietary fiber are lost when food is strongly ground.

Heat treatment also adversely affects the healing properties of bran, because it is digested faster in the body and its activating effect is weakened. Peristaltic activity of the intestine, the ability of fiber to bind water, as well as the speed of movement of feces decreases greatly.

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Why is bran so useful?

In addition to dietary fiber, bran also contains electrolytes, B vitamins, and other useful components. Wheat and rye bran have the most active medicinal and nutritional properties. Wheat bran shells have adsorption capabilities and can bind liquids that exceed their volume by 3-5 times. Since bran can reduce the amount of glucose and cholesterol in the body, it is recommended for people with diabetes, high degrees of obesity, or atherosclerosis.

In what form should bran be consumed?

Before using bran, it is worth reducing the amount of starch in it. To do this, you need to place the bran in a gauze bag and rinse it over running water for about two hours, and then boil it in water for 30 minutes. This procedure is repeated twice. Then the bran should be thoroughly squeezed out, dried in a not very hot oven and ground in a coffee grinder. After such processing of the bran, you can add it to flour products, cereals and vegetable dishes.

Some dishes made from bran

Buckwheat porridge

Add some onion to the loose buckwheat porridge. Then add bran fried until red. Before serving, add butter.

Bran pies (cabbage, meat, cottage cheese)

To prepare the dough, mix the bran with cottage cheese, sour cream, egg and butter. Leave the mixture for 15-20 minutes to let the bran swell and the dough form better. You shouldn't roll out this dough, it's better to form flat cakes from it and wrap the mince in them.

The mince is made from cabbage, cottage cheese or meat.

Cabbage is finely chopped and then stewed with butter and milk (about 5g butter), chopped egg and fresh parsley are added to them. Chopped onion is fried together with minced meat, and when it cools down, egg and parsley are added. To prepare curd mince, peeled apples, egg and sugar are added to the grated curd.

These pies are baked in the oven.

Curd cheese pies

• First recipe:

The strained cottage cheese is mixed with chopped apples, egg and sorbitol. The dough is not rolled out again, but flat cakes are formed from it, they are placed on a baking sheet, stuffed with minced meat and covered with a thin layer of raw egg. The vatrushki are baked in an oven at a high temperature.

• Second recipe:

Mix two cups of bran, butter, sour cream, sugar, cottage cheese and salt in one container and leave to stand for 20 minutes. The resulting dough is laid out in the form of flat cakes on a baking sheet covered with oil. A cheese ball is placed in the middle of each flat cake. To prepare the cheese mince, use 1 teaspoon of flour, cottage cheese, 3 yolks and 2 tablespoons of sugar. Cover the flat cakes with an egg and bake.

Bran cookies

Sorbitol (or sugar) is whipped together with the egg in a mixer to increase the mass in volume by 2-3 times. Then you need to add bran flour and salt, and then carefully mix everything. You need to put the dough on a baking sheet using a pastry bag in the form of various figures and bake the cookies for 10 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 ° C. Such cookies can also be made by adding nuts to the dough. To do this, take a glass of bran, a few tablespoons of ground nuts, 4 eggs, 1 tablespoon each of butter and sugar. Beat the egg whites with sugar, then add the yolks, sifted bran and ground nuts to the mass. Mix this whole mass thoroughly. Grease the baking sheet with butter, and put the dough on top with a tablespoon. Bake the cookies in the oven at a high temperature.

Shortbread with bran

Sorbitol should be dissolved in kefir. Mix flour with bran, add kefir, egg, vegetable oil and mix everything thoroughly. Roll out the dough into a pancake and put it on a baking sheet, then bake at a high temperature. While the cake is hot, cut it into smaller cakes.

Sweet flatbreads

Bring the sour cream to a boil, pour in the bran and stir, gradually cooling the mass. Add grated cheese, egg, butter, sorbitol and stir again. Form small flat cakes from the dough and bake in the oven.

Bran bread

Nowadays, you can buy everything in a store, including bread with added bran or crushed grain. It is hard not to notice various bakery products with non-uniform consistency on store shelves, they contain 20-40% wheat bran. Protein-bran breads, buns with egg yolk, doctor's breads, bran breads with lecithin and kelp (seaweed) contain 1.5 - 2.1% of cell membranes.

Protein-bran bread

In addition to the fact that this bread contains an increased amount of bran, the sugar in it is replaced with saccharin. Thus, this bread has a strong anti-constipation effect on the body. This bread is recommended for people who have frequent constipation, a tendency to obesity and a predisposition to diabetes. Doctor's bread is baked from wheat bran and high-grade flour.

Diet rye bread

It is made from rye flour and bran. This bread is very moist and has high acidity, which means that it is not recommended for people with ulcers, gastritis and high acidity. Rye bread is useful for regular constipation, diabetes and obesity.

Grain bread is made from high-grade wheat flour and coarsely ground wheat grain. Its consumption gives good results in chronic constipation and is useful for people who have insufficient physical activity (for example, if a person often travels by train).

Barvikha bread is baked from high-grade wheat flour and wheat grains in a 1:1 ratio. This bread is also enriched with egg white.

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Unprocessed bran

Bran is extremely useful in its unprocessed form. It is better to eat two dessert spoons of bran every day, washing them down with just water, juice or adding them to soup. Before eating bran, it is worth pouring boiling water over them so that they swell and soften.

The first few weeks, bran can be consumed in the amount of 1 teaspoon three times a day, with time increasing this dose to 2 tablespoons three times a day. When the result is achieved, the amount of bran can be reduced. This treatment lasts for 6 weeks.

It is worth remembering that a balanced diet is the first step in combating constipation. Diet is not the only way to treat this ailment.

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