Nutrition beer in salad and breadcrumbs

The barley juice is also a refined ingredient
Beer is not only for drinking, but also makes an excellent ingredient in the kitchen. Used in a refined way, it emphasizes the taste and character of the products.
The beer soup was already a classic 100 years ago and has since evolved abundantly in individual regions and households. Sometimes it is cooked with beef broth and roasted onions, sometimes with vegetable stock and bread cubes, sometimes with milk and raisins and sometimes with egg whisk balls and cinnamon. Similarly diverse are the recipes for beer sauces to roast pork of all kinds.

But not only in the home-style kitchen beer has its place. In the modern, light kitchen for some years eagerly experimented with the barley juice. The pils comes in the brew for young vegetables or refines the cream sauce to the fish. The spicy dark gives the grill marinade an intense aroma. With a dash of wheat, the salad dressing is summery tingling. And the harsh malt beer is doing well in the sauce for pepper steak. Plenty of culinary inspiration is provided by our Belgian neighbors. They include "stoofvlees" - stewed dark beef beer - or mussels in Gueuze beer as specialties.

Beer as a salad spice. Image: Rawpixel.com - fotolia

In baked goods, the carbonic acid of the beer acts as a natural driving agent. This is made use of beer sandwiches and beers. Wrapped in a smooth dough of flour, eggs and mild beer, chicken fillets, cauliflower florets and apple rings can be fried equally.

With the food the possibilities of the barley juice are far from exhausted. Mixed drinks and cocktails with beer are currently finding their way into gastronomy. With only a few ingredients, the direction of Pils and Co. is changed and an unusual drink created in between: With gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup the wheat beer becomes a tangy cocktail. From Kölsch, pineapple juice and coconut syrup you can mix a creamy-fruity beer colada. And an export gets Mediterranean flair with cassis and port wine. (Eva Neumann, aid)