Getting Ready For The Holidays: Top 8 Hangover Cures

Often, the consequences of celebrating the New Year are not only gifts under the tree, but also a headache.

Often, the consequences of celebrating the New Year are not only gifts under the tree, but also a headache. A hangover is the scourge of those who made a mistake with the definition of their own rate of alcoholic beverages. But sufferers can be helped, and not with a tasteless pill, but with mouth-watering dishes, the recipes of which we recommend that you get acquainted with (and some, for example, cabbage soup, and cook) in advance.

1. Pork belly

 

2.5 kg of pork belly, 5-6 cloves of garlic, 60 ml of vegetable oil, 50 g of fennel seeds, 30 g of chilli dried in flakes, 40 g of salt.

Grind the garlic and grind in a mortar with oil, salt, fennel seeds and chili seeds. Grate the meat with the resulting mixture, put it in a mold, it is allowed to overlap or even in 2 layers. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 2-2.5 hours. The meat should be crispy and will help neutralize some of the alcohol at the end of a wild party.

2. Tomato soup

 

1 kg of tomatoes, 20-30 g of ginger root, onion, lime, 60 g of honey, 20 g of hot red pepper, 1 liter of boiling water, 10 ml of vegetable oil + for frying.

Cut the tomatoes, pour over with boiling water, remove the skin from them and cut into small cubes.

Chop pepper and onion, mix with grated ginger, fry for about 5 minutes in a saucepan with a thick bottom. Then pour in boiling water and simmer over low heat. After 10 minutes, add tomatoes, cook them for a quarter of an hour. Add honey, squeeze lime juice and pour it in, mix and turn off after 5 minutes. Finally, send vegetable oil to the saucepan, preferably olive oil.

This soup will help remove the already existing hangover syndrome, invigorate and tone the body.

3. Eggs in spicy sauce

 

4 eggs, chili pepper, 2 cloves of garlic, 5 fresh or canned tomatoes, 200 g of hard cheese.

Finely chop the chili pepper and fry with crushed garlic for 1.5-2 minutes. Then put the chopped tomatoes in the pan, if they are fresh, then salt. Stew the dish for 5-8 minutes and beat in the eggs. Next, stir the protein with tomatoes, trying not to touch the yolk, sprinkle the eggs with grated cheese and cover with a lid for 60 seconds. After removing from heat, serve with herbs and bread.

Eggs in a spicy sauce with a liquid yolk can return even an organism very affected by alcohol to normal functioning.

4. Shchi with sauerkraut

 

0.5 kg of smoked meat (it is advisable to use several types - pork and chicken), 1.5 kg of meat for broth, 0.5 kg of sauerkraut with brine, onion, carrot, turnip, 50 g butter, 50 g tomato paste, about 5 g of sugar and pepper.

It is necessary to make a thick and fatty broth. To do this, wash the raw meat and place in a saucepan, pour 2.5 liters of water, add a little salt and cook, removing the foam, until tender on a minimum heat. Do not cover with a lid so that the broth is transparent. Then take out the meat, separate from the bones, return the pulp to the broth.

Chop onions and carrots and fry. After 5-8 minutes, add sauerkraut to them, simmer, adding brine. After a quarter of an hour, add tomato paste and mix. Keep on fire for another 5 minutes.

Peel the turnips, cut into strips and fry in melted butter in a separate pan.

Separate the smoked meat from the bone and throw it into the broth. Send a roast with cabbage and turnips there. Add pepper and sugar. Cook for half an hour over low heat, then cover with a lid, cool and send to the refrigerator.

Scham is supposed to infuse for at least 12 hours, then they will be able to saturate the body depleted with alcohol and stimulate the digestive system. And this is convenient, because you can prepare the soup in advance and meet the hangover fully armed. Before serving, the cabbage soup should be warmed up, and then add a little sour cream and fresh parsley to the plates.

5. Tarator with kefir

 

1 liter of kefir, 100 g of walnuts, 3 fresh cucumbers, 100 g of any fresh herbs (dill, parsley, celery, cilantro).

Fry the nuts in a pan for 3-5 minutes, cool, pour into a tureen. Add chopped greens and finely chopped cucumbers to them. Pour cold kefir.

This dish is convenient because it cooks quickly. And in a difficult hangover morning, this fact is undeniably important. Kefir will help the stomach and intestines cleanse, and the kidneys to remove excess alcohol.

6. Beet soup

 

large beets, 6 potatoes, carrots, onions, 1 bay leaf, 20-30 g of fresh horseradish root, 2-3 g of ground nutmeg, 10 ml of lemon juice, salt to taste.

Clean and wash all vegetables. Cut the potatoes and beets into strips, the onion into half rings, and grate the carrots. Put them in a pan, fry until half cooked, salt and add nutmeg in the process. After 20-25 minutes, put the vegetables in a saucepan, pour 1.5 liters of water.

The soup should boil and then cook for about an hour. Then it should be cooled, pureed with a blender and pour in freshly squeezed lemon juice.

When serving, add sour cream and herbs, you can cut into pieces and add pickled cheese. Beetroot soup is suitable for recuperation, restores the supply of vitamins, and helps cleanse the blood.

7. Rollmops

 

2-3 herring marinated in spices, 1 onion, 3-4 long even cucumbers.

Check herring for bones, remove them. Cut the onion into half rings, cucumbers into thin slices.

Divide the fish fillet in half, but not across, but lengthwise. You should get long thin stripes. Place slices of cucumbers on them, lay out a couple of onion half rings, roll up the herring and secure with skewers.

This is the German way to deal with a hangover. The resulting rolls stimulate the body to remove toxins, absorb alcohol a little, and also at least partially clog the unpleasant odor.

8. Rich ear

 

1 kg of oily fish fillet, onion, carrot, 5 potatoes, 100 g of any fresh herbs, 20 ml of freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Put the fillet in a saucepan, pour water and put on fire. After half an hour, salt and add vegetables. Pre-prepare them: peel, cut the onion in half, grate the carrots, cut the potatoes into cubes. Cook for another 20-25 minutes, then add greens and lemon juice.

This ear will give the body the necessary fluid, fats and omega-3 for tissue repair and brain function.

What foods help you deal with a hangover? Share your experience in the comments to this article!