{"id":1382,"date":"2019-07-26T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2021-09-23T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:23:53","slug":"borage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/en\/borage\/","title":{"rendered":"Borage: The Medicinal Herb Used In Spanish Households"},"content":{"rendered":"

Borage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> also known as starflower is a flowering plant that is commercially cultivated for borage seed oil. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>While traditionally cultivated for culinary and medicinal uses<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, today it is mainly used as either a fresh vegetable or a dried herb. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>As a fresh vegetable, it is often used in salads or as a garnish. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>And, its flower is often used for decorating desserts and cocktails. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>In Spanish regions of Aragon and Navarre, it is commonly used as vegetables. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Also, in most parts of Spain and the Greek island of Crete and the Northern Italian region of Liguria it is used for making sauces and soups. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Also, borage is traditionally used as a garnish in the Pimms Cup cocktail, often replaced by a long sliver of cucumber peel or by the mint.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It is also one of the key botanical ingredients used in Gilpin’s Westmorland Extra Dry Gin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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How to use Borage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It can be cooked in the same way you cook any other green vegetable. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It has a unique flavor, but to make it taste better you can add a bit of garlic, onions, and olive oils with chille pepper flakes. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Due to its cooling quality, it is refreshing to eat on a hot summer day. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>When used as a beverage, borage has a refreshing and cooling effect.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is a versatile herb as its every part is edible. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Its fresh leaves have a mild cucumber taste and can be used in stocks, soups, and stews, or brewed to make a refreshing tea. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>There is no need to put off the white layer on top on leaves as they easily dissolve in the mouth. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Adding them to sandwiches instead of lettuce is a great idea. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>And when cooked properly, borage leaves may be used as a substitute to spinach.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Borage flowers have a unique honey-filled taste that makes them good as artificial sweeteners. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>They can be preserved for a long time and added to drinks or simply in a glass of lemonade. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The stems of borage are used for adding flavor to alcoholic beverages. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Also, they make great any-time snacks when parboiled and fried in batter. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>When chopped up, they make a great addition to soups and can also be eaten raw; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>giving a hearty crunch to salads.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Besides this, flowers of borage are used for decorating drinks and salads.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Health benefits of Borage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Borage is a low-calorie herb that contains many vital minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients, minerals, and vitamins. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It contains some essential fatty acids y-linolenic acid (GLA), typically in the concentration of 17-20% Linolenic acid that helps in building healthy muscle, joins, skin, and mucosa.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Being rich in Vitamin C, fresh borage helps remove harmful free radicals from the body. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Together with other anti-oxidants, it helps in removing harmful free radicals from the body. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Together with other anti-oxidants, it has an immune booster, wound healer and anti-viral effect.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Borage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> herb is also rich in vitamin A which is powerful flavonoid antioxidants that plays a vital role in anti-aging and preventing disease. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Vitamin A also helps in proving antioxidant properties and is essential for vision. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>It is also required for maintaining healthy mucosa and skin. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Moreover, it also protects the human body from lung and oral cavity cancers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Borage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> also contains a good amount of minerals like iron, calcium, potassium, manganese, copper, zinc, and magnesium which are important components of cell and body fluids. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>They help in controlling heart rate and blood pressure. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Furthermore, borage is one of the best sources of B-complex vitamins, particularly rich in niacin that helps lower LDL cholesterol levels in the body. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Also, it has riboflavin, thiamin, pyridoxine, and folates in average levels that are co-factors in the enzymatic metabolism inside the body.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hope this article provided you enough information about <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>B<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>orage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>At <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Gastronomic Spain<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> ,We offer some of the best Spanish food items and products, that too at reasonable prices.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Borage also known as starflower is a flowering plant that is commercially cultivated for borage seed oil. While traditionally cultivated for culinary and medicinal uses, today it is mainly used as either a fresh vegetable or a dried herb. As a fresh vegetable, it is often used in salads or as a garnish. And, its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445],"tags":[543,545,79,64],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegetables-and-legumes","tag-borage","tag-health-benefits-of-borage","tag-spanish-food","tag-spanish-food-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastronomicspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}