Recipes of vegetable dishes and their importance in the human diet

Recently in the world there are more and more people adhering to a healthy diet.This means that vegetables and fruits should be present in large quantities in the diet. But if fruits can be consumed in unlimited quantities without cooking, but simply by rinsing with water, then it’s impossible to say about vegetables - they definitely need to be prepared, and how - read further.

Vegetables are products donated to us by the Mother Earth itself, therefore, taking from it the most necessary nutrients for the vital activity of the human body. The content of vitamins and minerals in them is so high that the use of a wide variety of vegetable dishes almost completely fills the body's need for biologically active substances. Therefore, vegetable dishes are always healthy and healthy food!

If you want to achieve the greatest safety of all vitamins, it is best to use fresh vegetables. To do this, there are many ways to prepare them: salads, cuts, snacks. To make the dishes look aesthetic and appetizing, they can be decorated beautifully and unusual, for example, in the form of canapes or on skewers.

To do this, use cherry tomatoes, beautifully sliced ​​cucumbers, radishes, carrots, pumpkins, sweet colorful peppers. Put the ingredients on thin sticks alternating. Experiment with color, flavor, add pickled vegetables, mushrooms, pieces of cheese or cheese, ham, seafood, eggs, and you will get an original, tasty and healthy treat.

Fans of spicy can cook spicy dishes from vegetables. This, above all, salads with the addition of your favorite spices. Korean carrots are one of the most popular: just chop carrots into strips, pickle spices in the finished composition (sold at every grocery store) and let it brew. Or it may be a Greek salad. Cherry tomatoes, sweet peppers, feta cheese, onion cut into cubes, add olives, ready-made dressing (also bought in the store) and olive oil. Spicy salad of fresh vegetables is ready!

The use of vegetables in cooked dishes provides tremendous opportunities for experimentation. The recipes here range from main courses to ... jam from vegetables.

Cooking methods can also be very different. Vegetables, besides traditional boiling, stewing and roasting, are cooked in pots (in an oven or oven, for example, country-style potatoes), on fire (on a wire rack, in a tandoor), in an autoclave (in a pressure cooker, in a slow cooker), dried (dried in the sun, in the oven or in a dehydrator).

For breakfast it is easy and convenient to prepare simple and tasty vegetable dishes. For example, eggplants, carrots, potatoes or cauliflower in deep fat (the same chips, only tasty and healthy - an economy version), cabbage or eggplants in batter (batter is made from eggs and flour or purchased ready-made). To do this, just dip the vegetables in a batter and fry in oil. You can use semi-finished products, such as nuggets - these are frozen vegetable patties that you just need to fry.

You can make and original dish - vegetables in Thai. These are usually coarsely chopped carrots, sweet peppers, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, etc., quickly fried and seasoned with spices and soy sauce (they are also called hot salads). It is also possible and economical option - buy or cook semi-finished products from vegetables (frozen or canned) and use them for cooking first, second courses or snacks.

Boiled dishes are the most traditional and tasty - boiled potatoes. Boil the potatoes in water with salt until ready, drain and season with vegetable or butter (optional). Adding chopped dill (or other spices) will add flavor to the dish.For boiled potatoes it is good to serve fresh or pickled salads and snacks from cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.

Good boiled potatoes and mashed potatoes, seasoned with butter and milk (for an amateur). Even mashed potatoes can be cooked from boiled pumpkin and peas.

Stewed vegetables are easily combined to create your desired taste.

• Ragu - This is a dish of stewed (sometimes pre-fried) vegetables, such as sweet peppers, potatoes, onions, carrots, beans, with the addition of oil and spices.
• Solyanka Traditionally prepared from cabbage, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, zucchini, etc. Unlike stews, they are stewed longer and have a more uniform texture.
• Caviar of vegetables it has an even more homogeneous consistency due to more thorough chopping and longer duration of stewing. The usual ingredients for caviar are zucchini, eggplant, tomato, onion, carrots.

This list of vegetables can be supplemented, modified, combined depending on your taste preferences.

First place among fried vegetables is potatoes. This garnish toasted in butter goes well with almost any salads and appetizers: fresh cabbage salad, tomatoes and cucumbers, stews, saltwort, pickled cucumbers, sauerkraut ...

You can fry many vegetables: cabbage (white cabbage, broccoli, color), zucchini, pumpkin, eggplant, pepper and others.

Those who adhere to a healthy lifestyle, know about the benefits of vegetable ("green") cocktails. Of course, because they contain the benefits of "live" unprocessed product, multiplied by the concentration of biologically active substances. They are used for weight loss, prevention of many diseases, strengthening the immune system and even for the treatment of certain diseases.

Vegetable cocktails are prepared from a variety of components. Most often it is a green salad, carrots, cucumbers, various cabbage, beets, potatoes, ginger. On request, cereals, nuts and fruits are added to the cocktail. The easiest way to prepare a "green" cocktail in a blender. To do this, chop the ingredients into cubes, add some water (if necessary), place in a blender and turn it on. At the end - pour the drink into the glass.

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