Vegetable puree - the best side dishes

"Do you want to be healthy? Eat vegetables every day! "- Never tire of repeating nutritionists. Vegetables today, benefit, you can buy in supermarkets in every season, so prepare them to various dishes all year round. A vegetable dishes can be cooked really set. One of the options - vegetable purees that are very well affect the operation of the digestive tract and the body are all possible only benefit. From what vegetables you can cook delicious and healthy smoothie and how is it done?

When the vegetables are pureed useful than in the usual form? For all those who are suffering from gastrointestinal diseases, eat vegetables is better as a puree, because boiled they are better understood and digested, straining the digestive system is much smaller than in the raw. Moreover, many vitamins are better absorbed - for example, a situation such carrots: beta carotene cooked carrots only, it is 3 times more antioxidant and lutein than in the crude. Of boiled spinach or broccoli you get 10 times more carotenoids, and such examples in relation to the mass of all kinds of vegetables. Raw vegetables are known to be rich in pectin and fiber, and it is for fledgling children's digestive system or weakened by disease adult will be a real shock, not at all useful, but even dangerous.

Part of vitamins when cooking vegetables, of course, is lost, but the rest are absorbed better than from raw vegetables. Solve the problem of a significant loss of vitamins in our time is easy - cook vegetables in water, and a couple in a double boiler, the option of cooking will be the most optimal.

To prepare the delicious mashed fits most vegetables: potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, beans, spinach, lentils, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, squash, eggplant, celery, peas, leeks, and even ordinary onions.

The principle of cooking any vegetable puree similar to the following: first, until cooked vegetables you need to boil with a little water or steamed, or baked right in their skins in the oven (for potatoes is the preferred way of cooking) and then grind them, add cream or milk, butter or vegetable oil , spices, salt and vegetable broth or a broth or, if desired.

Recipes tasty and healthy vegetable puree

Recipe proper mashed potatoes

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You will need: potatoes, milk, cream, salt and pepper.

How to cook a useful mashed potatoes. Boil peeled potatoes in a steamer or bake it in the oven until cooked in their skins. Put the potatoes in a large container, pre-clearing, when he was preparing a uniform, pound it into a puree using tolkushkoy or using a special attachment blender. Add the warmed milk, which diluted butter (amounts of these ingredients - to taste, and depending on the desired consistency of mashed potatoes), milk also better podsolit advance. Mix the mashed potatoes, season it with fresh or dried herbs and serve hot.

This mashed potatoes will not only delicious, but also useful. And when cooking potatoes common way it remains one starch, harmful to the figure.

Mashed potatoes - this is definitely the leader among vegetable purees. Next descending popularity are mushrooms, peas, pumpkin, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower and regular cabbage, carrots.

Recipe sauce with mushrooms

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You will need: mushrooms, butter, lemon juice, pepper, salt, milk sauce.

How to cook mushroom puree. Raw mushrooms clean, twist in a meat grinder, using the most frequent bars. In a frying pan melt the butter, put a lot of mushroom, pepper, salt the, add lemon juice, simmer until most of the liquid evaporate, then pour milk sauce, boil and serve mashed potatoes.

As for milk sauce, then this mushroom puree suitable easiest not too thick milk sauce of milk, mixed with flour and butter.

Recipe mashed peas

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You will need: 500 g peas 2 tablespoons butter and salt to taste.

How to cook pea puree. Rinse peas, put in a saucepan, cover with water, bring to a boil, reduce the fire under the lid until ready to cook, drain most of the water, then the blender to make of peas with a little liquid puree, season it with oil, pepper and salt to taste. Well suited is mashed as a garnish for meat.

Recipe mashed pumpkin

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Need: pumpkin, butter, pepper and salt.

How to cook pumpkin puree. Pumpkin puree for this it is best to bake in the oven or boil for a couple. If it is baked in the oven, you need to peel and cut it by small pieces, put into a mold, cover with foil and bake for about 20 minutes until soft. Stretching the pumpkin puree, add butter, pepper and salt to taste.

Recipe pureed zucchini

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Need: zucchini, butter, pepper and salt.

How to cook squash puree. Clean the squash from the skin and remove the seeds. Cover with cold water and let stand for several hours, drain the water, cut the zucchini, boil in a saucepan with water or steamed for 20 minutes. Mash the squash puree in a blender or tolkushkoy adding oil to taste, pepper and salt.

Recipe mashed cabbage

Need: cabbage, garlic, pepper and salt.

How to cook cabbage puree. Remove outer leaves from cabbage head, cut it and take the necessary amount of cabbage, put it in a double boiler or a pot of boiling water, cook until tender for 20-30 minutes, then use a blender to grind into a puree, adding garlic to taste, salt and pepper .

Carrot any other vegetable puree prepared according to the same principle - vegetable boiled, then pulverized with the addition of oil, cream or milk, salt and pepper. In almost any recipe can be replaced by oil, cream or milk, or add further - vegetable purees with these ingredients are more delicate and airy.

As can be seen, in the preparation of side dishes is no big deal, but the resulting dish is of great benefit to the health of both children and adults. God bless you!

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