Vegetables are the edible part of various plants, which can be either a fruit, a tuber, a stem, or leaves.
In cooking, it is customary to call vegetables even the fruits of those plants that in the terminology of botany are called nothing else than berries or fruits. Example: a cucumber is a vegetable in cooking, and a berry in botany. Another example: a tomato is a vegetable in cooking, and a fruit in botany.
Vegetables are divided into categories that have the following form:
Vegetables are root vegetables, such as: carrots, turnips, horseradish, radishes, celery.
Vegetables, tubers, such as: sweet potato, Jerusalem artichoke.
Cabbage vegetables, such as: all kinds of cabbage.
Pumpkin vegetables, such as cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin, squash.
Spicy vegetables, such as basil, dill, marjoram, tarragon.
Grain vegetables, such as: sugar corn.
Legume vegetables, such as: beans, peas.
Dessert vegetables, such as: rhubarb, artichoke, asparagus.
Vegetables are part of almost all dishes of any national cuisine. The exceptions are, perhaps, desserts and pastries. Vegetable dishes always contain a large amount of vitamins and trace elements. Dishes with vegetables are good for health and are recommended for people on diets. Also, dishes with vegetables are indispensable during religious fasts. In addition, it is much easier to prepare a vegetable dish than a meat one, because cooking vegetables does not take much time.
Many vegetables are usually subjected to heat treatment before use. However, some vegetables are also eaten raw. For example, carrots, radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers. Frozen vegetables retain most of the nutrients, including vitamins. Frozen vegetables are good because they can appear on our tables, even when it is “not the season” for them in nature. All vegetable dishes, recipes of which can be found in this section, have been verified by users.
Vegetable salads seasoned with vegetable oil are very tasty and healthy. If you are interested in how to cook vegetable stew, then it is stewed vegetables that form the basis of these stews, as well as goulash, roast, casseroles. In Chinese cuisine, rice with vegetables is widely used as a side dish for meat dishes. On our website you can find vegetable dishes with photos that make it easy to evaluate the whole cooking process.
Very tasty, easy to prepare, with a crispy crust, cabbage cutlets. The dish is for those who follow the figure or are in search of delicious dishes on fasting days.
Have you tried cooking eggplant with smoke in an apartment? No, but in vain, it turns out quickly, tasty and useful, and with the simplest garlic sauce – just lick your fingers.
Dear Cooks, I want to offer You a stunningly delicious, not troublesome recipe… I’m a meat eater, I don’t like vegetables, and at the word “eggplant” my appetite disappears for half a day, but this recipe is something… and very simple and will take little personal time! I advise you to try it – you won’t regret it!
Stew with zucchini and eggplant is relevant at any time of the year – it is always nice to enjoy the taste and rich aroma of cooked vegetables. The dish turns out to be fragrant due to the abundance of herbs, garlic and pepper in the recipe. In addition, this dish is prepared on the basis of meat, which is perfectly combined with young vegetables and the dish turns out to be very satisfying.
Prepared shoots of young bracken are ambiguous in taste, but with companion ingredients they perfectly reveal their taste. The dish in the presence of mushrooms, vegetables and meat turns out juicy and fragrant with a unique bright taste sensation.