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.
A simple soulful dish. Fragrant and somehow very homely. It is cooked quickly, eaten even faster. Serve potatoes with porcini mushrooms as a main dish or as a side dish, for example, with meat.
It was under this name that I met this recipe for baked potatoes with cheese and garlic in the book of festive dishes. A very tasty, tender, interesting potato is obtained from a minimum of products.
The perfect pair for chicken wings is a mushroom fricassee in a delicate, fragrant cream sauce. It is prepared quickly, with a minimum of ingredients, and the taste is amazing. You can take any mushrooms, both fresh and frozen, as well as assorted different types of mushrooms.
Dear friends, I want to bring to your attention a very quick and delicious recipe for baked cauliflower in a creamy sauce, which I called “cream fresh”. This is a very simple, light dish, but also very tasty. It is ideal as a side dish for meat.
I offer you very tasty potatoes in cream sauce with herbs, with bell pepper, cheese crust. The ideal pair for baked potatoes will be sauerkraut in a quick way. Try this!
Dishes made from seasonal vegetables. The recipe does not use meat, but meat eaters will like it, because all the ingredients complement each other so perfectly.
The recipe of Hutsul cuisine, a variety of potato pancakes, ladis, potato pancakes-brownies, is available both ways… but with a twist …, tested and recorded in the Carpathians, Hutsul region. Dedicated to all lovers of national cuisine.
Dear cooks, I present to your attention a very tasty version of cooking Knysh. I tried this recipe for the first time in the Carpathians. I hope you enjoy this simple but delicious recipe too!!!