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.
Option of vegetable side dish for any meat, fish, poultry. The roast is aromatic, with a rich taste of sweet pepper and spices. The vegetables are juicy and slightly crunchy with a slight edge.
Fast, incredibly beautiful, minimal ingredients, explosion of taste. Potatoes with rosemary in the oven when you need to surprise guests, but there is no time.
It is a time of grace for fresh, young vegetables! I suggest you try new potatoes, carrots and zucchini baked in the oven in a fragrant dressing with French mustard and garlic!
The first trip to the forest was not a great success, but we did not return empty-handed. What can be prepared from 200 g of mushrooms, so as not to drown out their taste, not to lose it… How Do you like this option? Sauerkraut and young, eggplant, almost no special taste, but excellent in tandem with mushrooms, we liked it very much.
Colacito Keftedes – a wonderful dish of Greek cuisine, is quite popular in this country. Therefore, there are a lot of variations, as we say – each village has its own recipe. I want to introduce you to my own, “suffered” and measured over the years.
If you have any mashed potatoes left over from yesterday! Or even not left, it can be cooked! You will get just wonderful and flavorful baked cutlets made of mashed potatoes in butter with the addition of corn flour, dill and green onions. I’ll bake them, smearing them with sour cream.
