How to choose the right frozen vegetables, how healthy they are and recipes, how to cook delicious dietary meals with them for a healthy lifestyle.
Other recipes for frozen vegetables
If you want to see your favorite summer vegetables on your table, stock up on them at the height of the season. And how to properly prepare them, while maintaining a fresh taste, read below.
1. Greens - dill, parsley, basil, green onions, sorrel, spinach
- Place the herbs in a bowl and rinse. Then transfer to a colander and rinse again. Dry after the last rinse: leave them in a colander to drain the water.
- Spread a waffle or cotton towel on the table and lay out the herbs to dry completely. Turn it over and shake it several times.
- Put dry herbs in a vacuum bag, releasing all the air from it, and send to the freezer.
2. Mexican vegetable mix - zucchini, bell peppers, broccoli, chili peppers, peas, carrots, corn
- Divide broccoli into inflorescences, rinse and dry.
- Wash the chili and bell pepper, peel the stalks and seeds, dry and cut into strips.
- Wash the courgettes, dry, cut into cubes and blanch for 2 minutes using a colander. Then dry them well.
- Peel the carrots, wash, cut, put them in boiling water and boil for 2–5 minutes. Then rinse and dry.
- Hull the corn and green peas and boil for 3–6 minutes. Throw in a colander, rinse and dry.
- Combine the finished vegetables in a large bowl, mix, pack in bags and send to freeze in the freezer. You can use a similar mixture to make stews, soups, or salads.
Rice with frozen vegetables
Rice is a great side dish for a good meat steak.
Ingredients:
- Rice - 1 glass
- Frozen carrots - 1 pc.
- Frozen bell peppers - 1 pc.
- Frozen green peas - 100 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Olive oil - 3 tablespoons
- Salt and spices to taste
Cooking rice with frozen vegetables:
- Heat the olive oil in a skillet and fry the chopped onions for 3 minutes. Then add the frozen carrots and continue to fry for another 5 minutes.
- Add frozen green peas and cook for 5 minutes.
- Season with salt, pepper, spices and cover with well-washed rice, spreading it evenly over the entire surface. Do not stir the mass.
- Pour boiling water over the food in a 2: 1 ratio of water to rice. Cover the skillet with a lid, heat low and simmer for 15 minutes, until the rice has absorbed all the liquid.
- Then let the finished dish brew for 10 minutes and you can serve it to the table. Stir all products carefully before serving so as not to disturb the structure of the rice.
Frozen vegetable soup
It's far from the summer season, but you want a light soup? Use a frozen vegetable mixture, which can be varied. For example, courgettes, tomatoes, cauliflower, green beans, etc.
Recipe Ingredients:
- Any frozen vegetable mixture - 400 g
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Meat broth - 2, 5 l.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
- Salt, pepper, bay leaf - to taste
Soup preparation:
- Send the meat broth to the stove to heat up.
- Peel the potatoes, wash, chop and cook in the broth.
- Peel onions, wash, cut into cubes, sauté in vegetable oil and send to a saucepan.
- Do not process the frozen mixture, but simply dip it into the broth.
- Add bay leaves, season with salt and pepper and cook until cooked. Serve the soup with sour cream and fresh herbs.
Frozen vegetables with chicken
The main advantage of this dish lies not in its quick preparation, but in the fact that it belongs to the “proper nutrition” menu. Chicken breasts are supplemented with vegetables, maybe even frozen, - an excellent dietary protein product.
Ingredients:
- Frozen vegetables - 500 g
- Chicken fillet - 300 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sour cream - 100 g
- Mustard - 2 tablespoons
- Salt and spices to taste
Preparation:
- In a frying pan in heated vegetable oil, fry the washed and chopped onions until golden brown.
- Wash the chicken fillet, cut into strips and add fry to the onion.
- Cook the chicken for about 5 minutes and lay in the frozen vegetables without thawing.
- Beat eggs with a mixer with sour cream. Add mustard, salt and spices.
- Pour the sauce over the meat and vegetables and simmer for half an hour.
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