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.
Recently, on holidays, my mom always cooks these peppers, so in principle I don’t need to repeat this recipe at home (mom often). But in the summer I froze a beautiful, fleshy Bulgarian pepper, on purpose, so I asked… The pepper turns out to be very tender and juicy. I warn you right away that there are a lot of stewed vegetables in the end.
Here I didn’t want to put any flakes in the pepper… And invented this recipe. It turned out very juicy, fragrant, tender and non-standard) The number of ingredients is designed for small peppers 10 cm long.
We continue to reveal the secrets of cooking wild rice. It turns out that he is very good in quite traditional dishes. Pilaf has already been with him, now we are trying stuffed peppers. And instead of minced meat, as the best side dish for wild rice, we use fish, namely tuna. Old recipes in a new way – delicious, healthy and easy to prepare!
Filling of fragrant porcini mushrooms and very useful pearl porridge is another option for filling sweet peppers. The dish turns out to be hearty, juicy and very tasty.
I often see how popular frozen stuffed peppers are in supermarkets. But they are easy to cook at home. Today I offer you a variant of harvesting for the future: stuffed Bulgarian pepper in Greek.
Stuffed peppers are my favorite dish. I want to share with you, dear cooks, our family recipe for its preparation. That’s how my grandmother, my mother cooked, and now I’ve learned. I must say right away that a 10-liter saucepan is stuffed with pepper for 7 hungry mouths. You can reduce the amount of all ingredients.