How to cook a vegetable side dish?

Vegetable side dishes are very popular as independent dishes, as well as additives to something.It is especially pleasant in winter, when vegetables are getting more expensive, and they are no longer sold as natural as in summer, to get your unique snack from the cellar or the refrigerator and add it to lunch or dinner. It should get acquainted with the types of side dishes and learn how to cook the most interesting of them.

The word garnish came to us from French, which means decorating or filling. Indeed, looking at the variety, which can now be found in stores or cook yourself, you realize that you can fill a plate with a side dish. Vegetable side dishes include not only fresh vegetables, but also steamed and fried. Vegetable garnish can be called everyone's favorite salad of cucumbers and tomatoes and, for example, stewed cabbage. In addition, vegetable side dishes are infinitely varied. How much can you cook from only one potato: boiled, fried, "Idaho", mashed potatoes, in uniform, chips, and so on.

It is worth considering the main types of side dishes in more detail.

• Bean cultures. This is a very unusual type of side dish, for example, green beans, roasted green peas, cold beans in a tomato. Not every day legumes are used in the form of a side dish, as they do not go with every hot dish. But in combination, for example, with beef, green beans taste unique.
• Cereals. This is probably the most popular class of side dishes. If you really want to eat, and there is little time to cook or just laziness, then you can take, for example, buckwheat. It cooks very quickly, it tastes beautiful and very fragrant. Some types of rice also need to be boiled for 10 minutes. Things are different with the barley, because its cooking time is much longer.

• Seafood as a side dish - This is a very interesting solution. For example, sea cocktail or sea kale. Seafood is combined with a smaller type of dishes than, for example, cereals, but they have great benefits and unique taste.
• You can not keep silent about such a side dish, like mushrooms. Fried or stewed mushrooms in sour cream with onions are very tasty. Of course, these side dishes also come as a separate dish, albeit in not very large quantities. And best of all, mushrooms are combined with other side dishes, such as potatoes or pasta.

• An infrequent side dish, but still - it is fruit and berries. This may be a fruit puree or just branches of berries. As well as meatballs are great cranberry or lingonberry jam. And if you ate stewed fruit, then you are very lucky to try this rare dish.

Some combinations of side dishes with various types of hot have already been considered a little higher. But now we should consider a few other combinations - serving with pasta and noodles. Such a side dish as pasta has long been loved by people. And the variety of these flour products is simply indescribable: horns, spirals, feathers, spaghetti, noodles, soba, udon, funchoza and others. They differ from each other in size, shape, color, composition, time of cooking.

For spaghetti mushrooms are amazing. Their combination especially with cream and chicken gives a unique taste. In the horns or spirals after cooking, you can add beans in tomato sauce. It will perfectly complement the taste of the dish, and tomato sauce will add some piquancy. Japanese udon noodles go well with roasted peppers and carrots, as well as adding soy sauce or teriyaki. Very unusual pasta nests can be filled with vegetables or meat. In any case, after cooking, they are both a hot dish and a side dish.

Billets for the winter is always a pleasure to do. The task is time-consuming and difficult, but the result is worth it. They can be made from fresh and boiled vegetables.You should familiarize yourself with several of the best and absolutely simple recipes.

The following ingredients should be prepared:

• carrots - 400 grams;
• Bulgarian sweet pepper (you can "Swallow") - 500 grams;
• eggplants - 800 grams;
• onion - 400 grams;
• tomatoes - 1 kilogram;
• tomato paste - 300 grams;
• vegetable oil - 150 ml;
• salt and sugar to taste.

The preparation method includes the following steps:

1. carrots, zucchini and eggplants must be washed, peeled and cut into cubes;
2. Pepper is optional, but the core and all seeds should be pulled out; after it can be cut into strips or cubes - as more used;
3. if the bulbs are small, cut into rings; if medium or large size, cut the rings into four parts;
4. tomatoes do not need to be cleaned - wash and send to a blender before chopping into porridge;
5. send all the chopped vegetables to the pot without water and leave on low heat for about an hour;
6. after time, add tomato paste, sugar and salt; the main thing is to taste, you might want to add more pepper, and leave for another 40 minutes.

For this recipe you will need the following ingredients:

• head of red or white cabbage;
• 3 large carrots;
• 4 medium cloves of garlic;
• water;
• salt.

The cooking method includes steps such as:

1. gently tear off the cabbage leaves from the stalk, wash them and put them in boiling water for 4–6 minutes;
2. we take out the leaves and leave them in a colander to water the glass;
3. three whole carrots;
4. finely chop garlic and add to grated carrots; mix;
5. we take a cabbage leaf (the sheets have softened and become more elastic) and wrap a small amount of carrot mixture in it;
6. make the necessary number of such rolls and put them in a jar, pouring boiling brine;
7. we roll up the jar and let it stand for at least a few days or wait until winter; the taste will be richer. This is a very unusual and dietary side dish.

You need to prepare ingredients such as:

• cucumbers - 3 kg;
• carrots - 1 kg;
• sugar - 200–300 g;
• vinegar - 150 ml;
• vegetable oil - 150–200 ml;
• salt - 100 g;
• garlic (to taste);
• red hot pepper - 2 tsp.

To prepare this dish, you should follow an algorithm such as:

1. grate carrots on a coarse grater;
2. we cut a cucumber into 8 pieces, but if you like smaller, then you can cut each piece into two more pieces;
3. put sliced ​​cucumbers and grated carrots in a large saucepan or any other container; we all fall asleep with sugar, salt, red pepper, vinegar and vegetable oil;
4. garlic is placed in the garlic press, and then sent to the resulting salad;
5. mix the resulting mixture and leave overnight;
6. laid out on the banks and roll up.

These are simple, quick, and most importantly, very tasty recipes.

To learn how to cook tasty vegetables for garnish, see the next video.