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.
But you can stuff vegetables not only with meat and rice… Very tasty peppers and eggplant with beans, these vegetables always enrich the taste of each other.
If you bought a huge Peking cabbage, here’s the idea to bake it under a cheese flavored cap. Juicy, delicious turns out! Basic ingredients: cheese, egg, cottage cheese, sour cream, and other additives-whatever you like.
Sach – a special clay pan of the black sea region and any dish prepared in it. My recipe is based on Bulgarian recipes, but archaeologists have been finding Sach pans all over the region up to the Crimea since ancient times, where the ancient Greeks cooked, so the name is given in honor of the pan, not the ingredients. The ingredients are the most common, modern. If you suddenly do not have a clay Sacha, you can take a tray for baking.
The first time this dish was prepared completely by accident – I was preparing cream for the cake, there was a little mascarpone left, and I love cauliflower… Now this is one of my favorite recipes. Cabbage turns out to be creamy, with a wonderful crust, stunningly delicious!
The dish is very light, absolutely not greasy, simple and delicious. It’s a cross between chopped cutlets and meatballs, but it doesn’t taste like either. The taste is delicate and simple, without frills. A good option for every day for adherents of a healthy diet.
In every kitchen there are vegetable pancakes or pancakes with vegetables, there are such in Korean cuisine. Today I will introduce you to the recipe. As always, the best possible adaptation of local products. Treat.
Very tasty, home-made and with the taste of warm Italy. With tortillas or Focaccia, with a glass of cool wine – a great evening is provided. And bring a jar of antipasti with you to your dacha… Try it? The recipe for tortillas will attach – they are here in their place.
