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.
Wonderful cabbage! Spicy, spicy and fragrant. Eat and be surprised that a rather boring and neutral cauliflower can be so temperamental and defiant! Very tasty! To all cauliflower lovers. And at the same time, we will quickly prepare the famous Buffalo sauce.
I love zucchini and sometimes experiment with them. And somehow I came up with this method of cooking zucchini. It seemed to me that it turned out delicious, and I cooked the second time just as well and brought it to work, which the girls would appreciate, everyone really liked it. They even asked for a recipe. And so I decided to post a recipe, in case someone likes it.
Soba is a Japanese noodle made from buckwheat flour. We have many different recipes, and they are all very unusual and fragrant. Today I suggest you try soba with peanut paste sauce with vegetables.
If you are a fan of Japanese cuisine, then you will definitely like these vegetables. The recipe will help to diversify the menu in the post. Rice is the perfect side dish for this dish.
I offer you a recipe for a delicious, fragrant and beautiful pumpkin snack. This will perfectly decorate the festive table. The snack is convenient to serve to guests, pumpkin slices are easy to take with your hands, fork and chopsticks. I used royal oyster mushrooms, but you can also use any other mushrooms, including champignons. Depending on the number of guests, you can cook several pumpkins at once.
In this dish I tried fish sauce for the first time. Unusual, of course, for an amateur, but piquant and interesting. This sauce is often used in Asian cuisine. However, if you haven’t found a fish sauce or you don’t like it, then add finely chopped anchovies or a piece of herring to the heated onion oil.