We are limited in the choice of side dishes. Potatoes, cereals, pasta ... How to make sure that the side dish is not boring? Gravy will not only make dry porridge more juicy, but will transform a familiar dish beyond recognition. Sauces are different - meat, cream, mushroom. The vegetable sauce to which this article is devoted will help you out during fasting days or with a vegetarian way of life. In principle, it is inexpensive, and it also gives the body much-needed vitamins. You can find a selection of the best recipes for vegetable gravy below.
Whip up recipe
Fresh vegetable sauce has its own canons of cooking. An indispensable ingredient in it is flour. It is she who gives the sauce a thick, makes it enveloping and viscous. Extraordinarily tasty is obtained vegetable sauce on sour cream, milk or cream. This sauce does not require a variety of ingredients. Components can be very basic. And if guests unexpectedly came to you, put spaghetti to cook and quickly cook “Quick Trick” vegetable sauce for them. We clean and finely chop the medium-sized onion. Rub carrots with large chips. Pour a little vegetable oil into the pan. When it heats well, put the onion, and then the carrots. We fry for about four minutes. When the onion becomes golden, pour a tablespoon of flour. Stir and simmer for another three minutes. Carefully pour a bit of water - so that it barely covers the vegetables. Add two finely chopped cloves of garlic. Now it's the turn of tomato paste. It needs to add two tablespoons. If there is no tomato paste in the house, ketchup can replace it with success. But he needs more - three or four spoons. And the gravy should be carefully cautious - there are already seasonings in the ketchup. When the contents of the pan boil, you need to reduce the heat and leave to languish under the lid for a quarter of an hour. During this time, spaghetti will arrive in time.
Creamy Vegetable Gravy Recipe
This sauce is ideal for those pasta that has a hole inside - horns, feathers, etc. First, fry finely chopped onion and a clove of garlic in olive oil. Pour boiling water over four tomatoes, remove the skin, cut it and also send it to the pan. Canned tomatoes can also be used in this recipe. Add half a teaspoon of sugar, salt, spices (especially basil and oregano). After half of the liquid let out by the tomatoes evaporates, add a spoonful of butter and half a glass of greasy cream. Let’s sweat over low heat for about five minutes. If the vegetable sauce remains too liquid, we will adjust its density with flour.
How to season buckwheat porridge
Let’s reveal the secret: each side dish requires its own sauce. And even the sauce for different types of pasta are different from each other. As for buckwheat, this cereal already gives a lot of fiber, so no flour is needed. Vegetable gravy will become thick by stewing the ingredients. Cut the onion, carrot, sweet pepper, two garlic cloves and a large tomato (do not forget to peel it). We also cut a stalk of celery. Pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil into the pan. First, fry the onions and garlic, literally five minutes. Then add carrots, bell pepper, celery. Reduce the heat and stir fry. If it starts to burn, you can pour a bit of water. Then salt, season with spices and simmer under the lid for about ten minutes. Only when the vegetables are soft can you add tomatoes. Continue to simmer, adding water if necessary, seven minutes. If the gravy comes out too acidic, sprinkle a pinch of sugar.
Rice Sauce
This cereal has a neutral taste. Vegetable sauce for a side dish of their rice porridge will add juiciness to the dish. Finely chop the onion. Cut carrots and three Bulgarian peppers of different colors into strips. We put the vegetables in a stewpan or deep pan. Pour a glass of mushroom broth (the recipe allows the use of broth cubes). Add two tablespoons of tomato paste. Stir everything well. As soon as the broth boils, reduce the heat. Season the sauce with rice, salt, bay leaf and spices. Add two tablespoons of wheat flour. You can diversify the gravy to rice and make it soft and creamy. To do this, dilute two tablespoons of flour with half a glass of sour cream. After that, add the mixture to the sauce and boil.
Tomato sauce
Tomato sauce is suitable for any side dish, as well as meat and fish dishes. Especially if it is made from fresh tomatoes. We chop the onion in half rings. Put it in a pan with hot vegetable oil. Remove the skin from half a kilogram of tomatoes and cut out the middle. The rest is blending. Add tomato puree to the onion. When the tomato sauce boils, add a spoonful of sugar, a pinch of salt and a little cinnamon to it. This sauce can be served separately, pouring it into a bowl and decorating with chopped fresh green cilantro.
Cooking in a slow cooker
Such sauces will also be useful, because for their preparation you can use less fat. Every vegetable sauce in a slow cooker is prepared according to the same principle as in a frying pan or stewpan. Pour a little vegetable oil into the bowl. Stack vegetables: onions, garlic, carrots. If desired, this classic set can be supplemented with green beans, bell pepper, mushrooms. We turn on the "Frying" mode for ten minutes. Vegetables should become rosy. Add the flour. Stir with a wooden spatula and continue to fry. Then pour water or broth. We set the “Extinguishing” mode on the device and cook for another forty minutes.