Muesli

Dish with Müsli.

The muesli (from the German Swiss Birchermüesli, literally "Bircher cereal porridge") is a Swiss-origin food that is found in the cereal group, typically breakfast, but also consumed in snacks and dinners. / p>

As a commercially available packaged product, its ingredients are dried or dried cereals, nuts and fruits, mixed without a rigid recipe, depending on the manufacturer. If you do a home preparation, normally "seasonal" products that are fresh on the market are used.

Among the cereals that make it up there may be oats, wheat, rye, barley, corn or rice, either in flakes or inflated, whole or refined. In the selection of fruits can be found apple, pear, banana, raisins, dates, plum, mango, fig, peach, strawberry, pineapple, coconut ... and, among nuts and seeds, nuts, hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts , sunflower, flax or sesame.

Similar to one of the preparations of granola or gofio canario, it can be consumed previously rehydrated with water, milk (not advisable fresh if there is enough proportion of acidic fruits that can curdle it), fermented milk, soy ( or soy), kefir, yogurt, chocolate, juice (or juice) ... and, according to the taste of the consumer, sweetened with cinnamon, anise, honey or sugar. Since its invention by the Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner at the beginning of the 20th century, inspired by the dinner of a shepherd in one of his excursions with his wife in the area of ​​the Alps, he has become popular as a healthy food, nutritious, energetic and satiating and because it is a quite complete cocktail of vitamins and minerals, proteins and carbohydrates, and to normalize modern diets unbalanced, or for people with problems of constipation.

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