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Dishes with vegetables


Vegetables are an edible part of various plants, which may turn out to be either fruit, tuber, 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 more than berries or fruits. An example: cucumber is a vegetable in cooking, and berry in botany. Another example: tomato is a vegetable in cooking, and fruit in botany.

Vegetables are divided into categories that have the following form:

• Root vegetables such as: carrots, turnips, horseradish, radishes, celery.

• Tuberous vegetables such as: yam, girasol.

• Cabbage vegetables such as: all kinds of cabbage.

• Pumpkin vegetables such as: cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin, scallops.

• Spiced vegetables such as: basil, dill, marjoram, tarragon.

• Cereal 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. Exceptions are, perhaps, desserts and pastries. Vegetable dishes always contain a large amount of vitamins and trace elements. Dishes with vegetables are healthy and recommended for dieters. Also, dishes with vegetables are indispensable during religious fasting. In addition, cooking a vegetable dish is much easier than meat, because cooking vegetables does not take much time.

Many vegetables are usually subjected to heat treatment before consumption. 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's "not season" for them in nature. All vegetable dishes whose recipes can be found in this section are checked 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 very stews, as well as walks, roasts, casseroles. In Chinese cuisine, rice with vegetables is widely used as a side dish for meat dishes. On our website you can find dishes from vegetables with photos, which are easy to assess the entire cooking process.