Vegetable gravy: recipes and cooking technology

Many people think that diet and tasty food are completely different things. For some reason, it is considered that tasty is always fat and calorie.Many people treat useful vegetables very biased, and very vain. Because of them you can make an incredibly tasty and harmless sauce, which can be served to any side dish, meat, bird

For a long time, fried onions, cranberries and lingonberries have been used in sauces and gravies. Ginger, lemon juice, honey, and vinegar gave spice to the dishes. Currently, the traditional composition has changed somewhat. Now the most common products for making gravy are onions and carrots. The popularity of the dish is also due to the fact that these simple products are in any refrigerator. Also an integral part of the gravy is flour. It is this food that gives viscosity to the dish, makes the sauce thick and enveloping.

Most often, a special touch is given to the dish by tomato paste, which can also be found in the kitchen of any hostess. If this is not, then fit tomatoes. An excellent substitute will be sour cream or cream. If you want to experiment, you can even mix all these ingredients.

The benefits of vegetable dishes is obvious. Let the carrots and onions are cooked, but their useful qualities are still preserved. This is a very nutritious dish, but low-calorie - 100 grams contains only about 85 kcal. At the same time, gravy to complement the garnish requires quite a bit - you can add just a couple of spoons, and the taste of any dish will completely change. By the way, filling the food with gravy is not necessarily limited to any rules. Someone used to dip the pieces of meat in the sauce, someone slightly weights pasta, and some to taste fully poured with gravy of buckwheat.

The preparation of vegetable dishes requires a minimum of time and food. You can use frozen vegetables. If you want to sauté carrots, then you can even not defrost it. As part of this gravy contains organic fibers and acids.

To prepare the dish, you will need a separate bowl, a thick-walled pan, a board, a knife and a grater. Vegetables that the hostess wants to see in the sauce, you need to wash, chop, fry in a frying pan. Then add flour, tomato paste and water. After that, you need to simmer the ingredients for about 15 minutes. All these procedures can be performed in a saucepan with water - this is how a more wholesome dish will turn out. Very tasty gravy is obtained in a slow cooker.

If you plan to create a cream sauce, then you need very little water. Vegetables will be stewed in milk or cream. Recommended vegetables for cooking gravy (besides traditional onions and carrots): bell peppers, tomatoes, green beans, corn, garlic, mushrooms. In addition to salt, pepper and favorite seasonings, you can add sugar. As for the green, there are no restrictions.

Another cooking option is making gravy from vegetables for the winter. It can be offered to households both hot and cold for pasta. Thus, vegetable gravy is a versatile dish, in the preparation of which the hostess can use absolutely any products and not be afraid to spoil the food.

You will need:

• carrots - 1 pc .;
• flour - 2 tbsp. l;
• onions - 2 pcs;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• Bulgarian pepper - ½ pcs;
• tomato paste 4 tbsp. l

Cooking:

• vegetables are washed, peeled and chopped;
• heat up the pan with butter, lay out sweet peppers and carrots;
• chopped onion added to the vegetable frying;
• all mix well, salt and pepper;
• gently and evenly sprinkle the dish with flour, very well mixed;
• add tomato paste, mix everything again;
• add water to the dish, salt a little more and pepper;
• everything is thoroughly mixed and left under a lid over low heat for 10 minutes;

The sauce is ready. It is perfect for mashed potatoes, pasta, Greek, rice.

You will need:

• onions - 2 pcs;
• garlic - 1 head;
• sweet pepper - 5 pieces;
• tomatoes - 4 pieces;
• sour cream - 120 ml;
• olive oil;
• greens - to taste;
• spices: paprika, turmeric, hops-suneli;
• salt to taste

Cooking:

• washed and cleaned vegetables;
• onions cut into half rings, tomatoes and pepper into large cubes, garlic into slices, chop greens;
• oil is heated in a skillet or thick-walled skillet;
• Fry the onion first, then add the garlic;
• when the ingredients are soft, fall asleep to them Bulgarian pepper and stew until half cooked;
• followed by stewed tomatoes, salted dish;
• all vegetables are flavored with spices and kept on gas for about 5 minutes;
• add sour cream to the pan, stir the dish and leave to stew under the lid for another 5 minutes;
• at last they send greens to the vegetables, mix and remove the pan from the stove (it should stand under the lid for about 15 minutes).

You will need:

• tomatoes - 3 kg;
• onions - 1 kg;
• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
• sugar - 0.5 st;
• salt - 4 tbsp. l;
• garlic - 3 slices;
• red pepper - to taste.

Cooking:

• washed, cleaned the tomatoes and pass them through a meat grinder;
• chop onions finely;
• chop the onion in a hot frying pan until soft;
• add tomato gruel, salt, sugar, pepper to the pan, mix everything;
• as soon as the vegetables boil, cover the pan with a lid and leave for 15 minutes on low heat;
• a couple of minutes before switching off the gas, chopped garlic is added to the dish;
• as soon as the gravy is ready, pour it into sterilized dry glass containers and tightly screw the lids on;
• turn the jars upside down, wrap them with a towel and leave to cool completely;
• send cooled banks for storage to other blanks.

See the video below for the recipe for cooking pasta with vegetable sauce.