Salepi: This is the drink, which is used to stimulate patients during their recovery. It acts against dysentery and I coughed with inflammation. Salepi comes from the drying and pulverization of the bulb of a plant. In fact, it is very well known in Greece.
Salepi: The ingredients
contains arabine, tragacanth, a lot of starch and precious minerals: phosphorus and calcium. It contains a sticky substance, basar, which when boiled with water, gives this excellent emollient against coughs and all diseases of the chest, but also of the stomach and intestines. Its heating properties are mainly due to the starch-lubrication contained in the bulb but can be perfectly replaced by other starch-lubricating materials of nature as we will see below, having the same results in our body as well as the same delight as that traditionally gives salepi. So a weapon in the exacerbation of seasonal salep can be the virus. Nowadays, it is drunk as a beverage or used mainly in confectionery for the preparation of sweets.
Salepi: Its healing properties
These orchids and their healing properties were mentioned by Hippocrates, Asclepius, Theophrastus and Galen, emphasizing the power of the herb to stimulate the body of patients, to heal wounds of the stomach and intestines but also to relieve Salepi. Salepi has healing properties because it contains the drugs arabine and tragacanth and a lot of starch which, when dissolved in water, form a liquid thick and sticky, it is considered suitable for relieving cough, asthma and stomachache, acts against of dysentery and cough, while significantly stimulating the immune system. Salepi, due to its sticky nature, has a healing effect on the walls of the digestive tract. Heals ulcers in the stomach and intestines. Salepi is also a warming drink because of the spices it contains. For this reason it can be used to warm us effectively instead of tea or other teas.
Salepi: Other information about its healing properties
It is rich in starch and can give energy and spiritual clarity to people who need it such as students, the elderly, pregnant women and patients.
Contains precious minerals such as phosphorus and calcium. Helps weakened diseased organisms to recover and recover faster. It contains a sticky substance, basar, which when boiled with water, turns into a sticky thickening substance, emollient, against coughs and inflammation. Salepi due to sticky but sticky and its healing ingredients affect the stomach and intestine by regenerating the walls of the digestive system.
Its tonic and aphrodisiac abilities are intensified thanks to the addition of herbs such as cinnamon, clove, ginger, vanilla. Salepi has no special calories. The simple salep without sugar has about 15 calories per serving (1 teaspoon of 15 grams), while if it is a ready powder mixed with sugar, it has about 30 calories per serving.
Salepi: Methods of preparation
In the roots of this plant grow tubers that are dried, ground, their bitter essential oil is removed and from their powder is prepared this decoction sold by the "saleptzides". Salepi can be found as a powder mixed with various other herbs but also cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and vanilla for us to prepare, in a way similar to Greek coffee.
Salep items
In Greece we can buy authentic salep of Ioannina, salep from Polis with the original political recipe as well as sea salep made from a species of seaweed in Iceland.
Salepi: Its preparation
For two glasses of drink, add 1 teaspoon of powder. Stir the drink constantly throughout the baking, until it swells (like Greek coffee).
Serve the drink with honey or sugar, cinnamon and grated ginger. 1 cup water 2 cloves a little cinnamon a little ginger powder 1 tsp. γλ. sugar (or more if you want) 1 tsp. γλ. salepi Boil the water together with the cloves and the sugar. Remove the water from the heat and add the salepi, stirring well and continuously until it gets its thick texture. If necessary, put it back on the fire, stirring constantly (Be careful not to boil it). Add cinnamon and ginger powder and drink it hot!
How to make a cup of tea
Ingredients:
- 1 kt (teaspoon) corn starch (nestest - contains starch-slip like salepi).
· 1 tbsp sugar or licorice powder.
· Half chopped cinnamon etc. (also contains lubrication).
· 1 to 2 cloves (cloves) grated.
· A little bad (cardamom or cardamom) powder or
· A little ginger (powder) in powder, at will Execution:
Put the starch and sugar in a dry cup and mix them with a little cool water. At the same time, simmer a cup of water together with the rest of the ingredients in a kettle for 2 to 3 minutes, add the hot water slowly to the cup, stirring at the same time.
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