Ratio of water to stew. Cooking vegetable stew according to the most delicious recipes

Vegetable stew is one of the most useful and easy-to-cook dishes. In summer it is prepared from seasonal vegetables, in winter - with cabbage, potatoes, frozen vegetable mixture. Vegetable stew is always present on the menu of vegetarians, many people make it in fasting. However, if desired, it can be made with meat, and then it will become more satisfying. So experienced housewives know well how to cook vegetable stew from different types of vegetables, and have several recipes for this versatile dish in stock. At the same time, they continue to collect new recipes for vegetable stew, since there are a huge number of options for its preparation.

Cooking features

At first glance, it may seem that cooking vegetable stew is quite simple: cut vegetables, put them in a saucepan and simmer. In fact, this process is more complicated and has several subtleties. If you do not know them, the finished dish will have an unsightly appearance, although it will remain tasty.

All vegetables have their own structure, and therefore it takes different times to bring them to readiness. For this reason, it is not recommended to put all the vegetables in a pot or cauldron at once. Indeed, in this case, some of them will be digested, while others, on the contrary, will remain half-baked. Compliance with the order of laying products is one of the main rules for preparing a delicious vegetable stew.
If the products are fried before stewing, they will be tastier, but the calorie content of the finished dish will increase from this. If you decide to fry foods, then it is best to fry each of them separately and only then combine.
A beautiful vegetable stew is obtained if the pieces of vegetables in them are approximately the same shape and approximately equal in size. At the same time, it is recommended to cut the vegetables into small pieces, although you should not do very small pieces either.
Eggplants are often included in the vegetable stew. These vegetables contain a harmful substance that gives them bitterness, so they need to be prepared beforehand. It consists in soaking eggplants in salt water. To do this, 10 g of salt is dissolved in a liter of water. You can simply cut the eggplant in half, salt it, and rinse it after a while - the effect will be the same: the salt will draw out the solanine and the eggplant will become tasty and safe.
If you are making a stew with meat, then cook it first, as it takes much more time to bring the meat to the desired condition than to stew vegetables.
To give the vegetable stew an additional taste and seductive aroma, you can use spices, spices, fresh herbs, tomato paste. In cases where fresh tomatoes are included in the dish, tomato paste is usually not added.

As already mentioned, there are a lot of vegetable stew recipes. You can make it not only in a saucepan, but also in the oven, slow cooker. Therefore, the technology for preparing this dish cannot remain unchanged, it depends on the chosen method and the specific recipe.

Classic winter vegetable stew

white cabbage - 0.3 kg;
potatoes - 0.75 kg;
green beans (you can use frozen) - 0.3 kg;
carrots - 0.3 kg;
onions - 150 g;
turnip - 0.3 kg;
tomato puree - 50 ml;
butter - 50 g;
wheat flour - 20 g;
vegetable broth or water - 0.5 l;
cloves - 3 pcs.;
cinnamon - on the tip of a knife;
salt, black ground pepper - to taste.

Video recipe for the occasion:

Cooking method:

Wash the cabbage, remove the top sluggish leaves. Chop.
Peel the onion from the husk and cut into small pieces.
Peel the carrots and cut into cubes no larger than 1 cm.
Peel the turnip, cut it into the same pieces as the carrots.
Peel the potatoes and also chop with a knife.
Boil water in a small saucepan, throw beans and cabbage into it, cook them for 10 minutes. Remove the vegetables from the pot with a slotted spoon or drain them in a colander. Do not pour out the broth - if you do not have vegetable broth, then you can use it in the next steps of cooking.
Fry the flour in a dry frying pan. When its color turns caramel, pour the vegetable broth into the pan in a thin stream, constantly whisking it with a whisk so that there are no lumps.
Add the tomato paste, stir and let the sauce simmer for about 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Turn off the heat, remove the pan from the stove and pour the sauce into a bowl or other clean container.
Wash the pan, dry it, put butter on it. Put on fire and melt the butter. Add chopped onion and fry over medium heat until golden brown.
Add the potatoes to the onion and fry for 2-3 minutes.
Put turnips and onions in a saucepan, pour in a little sauce. Simmer vegetables over low heat for 5 minutes. Add cabbage, beans, potatoes and onions. Salt, pepper, add cinnamon and cloves.
Pour in the remaining sauce, stir, and cook for another 15-20 minutes, until all the vegetables are soft enough.
Reduce the heat to low and leave the stew in the saucepan covered for 10 minutes. It is better if the pan is thick-bottomed. Even more suitable for cooking stew cauldron.

Arrange the finished stew on plates and serve as a main course or side dish. Ragout cooked as a side dish goes well with any meat dishes, as well as with sausages. For example, sausages harmonize well with vegetable stew prepared according to the above recipe.

Classic summer vegetable stew

eggplant - 0.5 kg;
zucchini - 0.5 kg;
sweet pepper - 0.5 kg;
potatoes - 0.5 kg;
carrots - 150 g;
onions - 150 g;
garlic - 3 cloves;
tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
fresh herbs - 100 g;
vegetable oil - 80 ml;
salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking method:

Peel the eggplant and cut into small cubes. Dip them for 20 minutes in cool salted water, then rinse in running water and pat dry with paper towels.
Peel the zucchini, cut lengthwise, remove the seeds with a spoon. If you have young zucchini of small size, you just need to wash them and pat them dry with a kitchen towel.
Cut the zucchini into cubes about the same size as the eggplant.
Wash the bell pepper, cut the stalk, remove the seeds. Cut into small squares.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into pieces of the same shape and size as the other vegetables.
Free the onion from the husk and cut into small pieces.
Peel and chop the carrots on a coarse grater.
Finely chop the garlic with a knife.
Cut the tomatoes into cubes. It would be even better if you pour boiling water over them beforehand and clean them, although this is not necessary.
Finely chop the greens with a knife.
In a thick-bottomed saucepan or in a cauldron, heat vegetable oil, put onions and carrots in it. Fry them until the onion turns golden.
Add bell pepper, fry onions and carrots with it for 3-4 minutes.
Add zucchini and eggplant. Fry them for 5 minutes.
Add the potatoes to the vegetables and fry them with it for another 5 minutes.
Add tomatoes and garlic to the dish, salt and pepper.
Simmer the vegetable stew over low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Water can be added only if the liquid released from the vegetables is not enough and they begin to burn.
Pour greens into the stew, mix. Turn off the heat and let the stew steep for 10 minutes.

Such a stew is good to cook in the summer, when fresh zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes are very inexpensive or, even better, grow in the beds in your backyard.

French vegetable stew (ratatouille)

zucchini - 0.4 kg;
eggplant - 0.4 kg;
tomatoes - 0.4 kg;
olive oil - 20 ml;
Provence herbs, salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking method:

Wash the vegetables and cut into slices no more than half a centimeter thick.
Dip eggplant for 20 minutes in salted water, then rinse and dry.
Grease an ovenproof dish with olive oil. It will be better if you choose a round shape.
Arrange the vegetables in a spiral shape. They need to be alternated in a strict order and laid out with an overlap so that they all fit.
Drizzle vegetables with remaining oil, sprinkle with salt, pepper, dried or fresh herbs.
Send the form to the oven and turn it on. Bake vegetables at 200 degrees for 45 minutes.

You can serve ratatouille to the table in the form or spread out on plates. If desired, 10 minutes before cooking, the dish can be sprinkled with grated cheese, then it will turn out even tastier.

Bulgarian vegetable stew with minced meat

potatoes - 1 kg;
bell pepper - 0.5 kg;
minced pork and beef - 0.5 kg;
tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
water - 0.25 l;
vegetable oil - 50 ml;

Cooking method:

Peel potatoes and cut into cubes.
Wash the peppers, cut off the stems and remove the seeds. Cut the pulp into not too small cubes. The stew will look beautiful if you take one red pepper, one - a different color.
Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and fry the minced meat in it for 10 minutes.
Add pepper and fry the minced meat with it for another 5 minutes.
Enter potatoes and tomatoes. Salt and pepper to taste, cover with water.
Simmer vegetables with minced meat over low heat for about 30 minutes.
Pour the greens finely chopped with a knife, stir, continue cooking for another 5 minutes.

Vegetable stew prepared according to this recipe is somewhat reminiscent of lecho, only with potatoes and minced meat.

Spanish vegetable stew

zucchini - 0.5 kg;
sweet pepper - 0.5 kg;
tomatoes - 1 kg;
onions - 100 g;
vegetable oil - as needed;
sugar - 5 g;
salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Cooking method:

Pour boiling water over tomatoes, peel. Grind with a blender or rub through a sieve.
Add finely chopped herbs, salt, sugar and pepper to the tomato puree, mix well.
Wash the zucchini, dry, cut into slices.
Wash the pepper. After removing the stem and seeds, cut each vegetable in half lengthwise. Cut into half rings.
Onion, peeled, also cut into halves of the rings.
In one pan, fry the onion and pepper in oil, in the other, fry the zucchini.
Put the fried vegetables in one pan, pour in the tomato sauce and simmer for 30 minutes.

Sprinkle the stew with chopped herbs before serving. Try to get more sauce on everyone's plate - it is very tasty.

Vegetable stew is prepared in almost all countries of the world, so there are a huge number of recipes for this dish, and each has its own feature that makes the dish unique.

Wash and dry vegetables.

Cut eggplant lengthwise into 2 halves, salt and leave for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, wash off the salt, cut the eggplant halves again lengthwise and cut coarsely across.
Cut the zucchini lengthwise into 2 halves, remove the seeds and cut into large cubes (you do not need to remove small seeds from a young zucchini).
Wash the carrots, peel and cut into circles.
Cut the top off the peppers and remove the middle. Pepper cut into large pieces.
Wash the tomatoes, cut each tomato in a cross at the base and dip in boiling water for 1-2 minutes, then remove the skin. Cut tomatoes into slices or large cubes.
Onion cut into half rings.
Chop greens.

Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the vegetables separately over high heat for 2-3 minutes.
First, fry the eggplants, put them in a roaster or a cauldron and sprinkle with a little salt and pepper, sprinkle with herbs.
Then fry the carrot slices, put it on the eggplant, lightly salt and pepper.
Put fried bell pepper on carrots, salt, pepper, sprinkle with herbs.

On top, on the pepper, lay the fried zucchini, salt, pepper, sprinkle with herbs.
Put the fried onions on the zucchini.
Place the tomatoes on top of the onion.

Advice. Transfer the fried vegetables to the roaster without the vegetable oil in which they were fried, otherwise the stew will turn out to be too fatty. In the stew, you can put a couple of cloves and add a little cinnamon.

Cover the chicken with a lid and simmer over low heat for about 40-50 minutes, without stirring the vegetables. There is no need to add water - vegetables will give enough juice.

There is hardly a person who does not know about stew. After all, the dish is so common that it is found in almost every national cuisine.

How to cook vegetable stew without meat

The dish is prepared not only from meat, but also mushrooms, vegetables and fish. You can add any ingredient “lying around” in the refrigerator to its composition, and in any case, the stew will turn out delicious.

Recipe Ingredients:

pepper - 5 pcs;
onions - 2 pcs;
eggplant and tomatoes - 3 pcs each;
zucchini;
a pinch of sugar;
oil for frying;
salt to taste.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Calorie content: 25 kcal.

Technological process:

How to cook vegetable stew with eggplant

According to the history of cooking, the stew was patented in France. And the most common type of dish is "Ratatouille". The dish can be served both on its own and as a side dish for cold meats or stews.

Recipe Ingredients:

medium-sized eggplant - 2 pcs;
salt to taste;
medium-sized zucchini - 2 pcs;
bulbs - 2 pcs;
peeled garlic - 3 cloves;
ripe tomatoes - 3 pcs;
sweet pepper of different colors - 3 pcs;
olive oil - 6 tbsp. l;
dried spices (rosemary and thyme) - 1 tsp each;
ground black pepper - 1/8 tsp.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Calories: 51 kcal.

Technological process:

How to cook vegetable stew with meat

The dish belongs to French cuisine and is best known as Breton stew.

Recipe Ingredients:

bacon - 250 g;
fresh lamb pulp - 500 g;
bulbs - 5 pcs;
tomatoes - 5 pcs;
salt to taste;
garlic - 2 cloves;
ground black pepper;
savory sprigs - 2 pcs;
celery - 1 bunch;
parsley - 1 bunch;
fresh green beans - 300 g;
milk sausages - 6 pcs.

Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Calories: 148 kcal.

Technological process:

How to cook a delicious vegetable stew with zucchini and minced meat

Interestingly, with the addition of one ingredient, the dish will sparkle with new colors and become much more satisfying. The uniqueness of the dish is that if you are a vegetarian, then minced meat can be replaced with fish fillet and the taste will not suffer from this.

Recipe Ingredients:

zucchini - 300 g;
zucchini - 400 g;
bulb;
bell pepper;
carrots - 2 pcs;
garlic - 3 cloves;
frying oil - 50 ml;
sour cream - 35 g;
any minced meat - 300 g;
several branches of greenery;
if desired, add the seasoning "Hmeli-suneli";
ground black pepper pinch;
salt to taste.

Cooking time: up to 1 hour.

Calories: 99 kcal.

Technological process:

If the zucchini is not young, then remove the skin from it and remove the seeds. Cut into cubes;
Do the same with zucchini;
Grate the carrots, chop the pepper into strips;
Grate or scald the tomatoes, remove the skin and finely chop;
Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion;
Then add carrots, mix and sauté over low heat for 4 minutes;
Then put peppers, zucchini, tomatoes and zucchini;
In another pan, fry the minced meat;
As soon as the minced meat acquires a ruddy hue, combine it with vegetables;
Put sour cream;
To speed up the extinguishing process, you can pour in 50 ml of water;
Simmer for half an hour;
10 minutes before the end, add garlic, and 5 minutes before the end, add greens and seasonings.

How to cook vegetable stew with chicken in a slow cooker

Summer, tasty, bright and healthy recipe for cooking stew with an indispensable kitchen unit. And the best time for cooking is the beginning of autumn, when nature pleases with an abundance of vegetables.

Recipe Ingredients:

chicken drumsticks - 3 pcs;
potato tubers - 3 pcs;
carrots - 2 pcs;
water - 100 ml;
champignons - 100 gr;
zucchini - 2 pcs;
several branches of greenery for decoration;
sweet pepper - 1 pc;
salt to taste;
mayonnaise - 50 g;
mustard - 1 tsp

Cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Calories: 65 kcal.

Cooking technology:

Unusual recipe: Uzbek stew

Uzbek cuisine has always been famous for hearty dishes, and the warm climate allows you to enjoy fruits and vegetables all year round. Having prepared a dish according to this recipe, be sure that you will certainly be asked for supplements.

Recipe Ingredients:

pork - 0.5 kg;
hot capsicum - 3 pcs;
potatoes - 4 pcs;
bulbs - 4 pcs;
turnip - 250 g;
garlic - 4 cloves;
carrots - 3 pcs;
salt to taste;
quince - 2 pcs.

Cooking time: 1.5 hours.

Calories: 100 kcal.

Technological process:

Grease the cauldron with cooking oil. Cut half the pork and spread the pieces on the bottom;
All other ingredients, including quince, cut into identical cubes;
Components must be laid out in layers: starting from hard, and ending with the softest;
Salt and season with spices if desired;
Stick hot pepper pods between vegetables;
Put the cubes of the remaining meat in the last layer;
Thus, the cauldron will be completely filled. Pour a little water and simmer for 10 minutes over high heat, the next 20 minutes - over medium heat, and the remaining quarter of an hour - over low heat;
Before serving the dish to the table and stirring in the cauldron, you need to get the pepper pods.

If a mixed stew is being prepared, which, in addition to vegetables, contains a meat product, then do not forget to finely chop all the ingredients, fry in different dishes, and only then mix and simmer in one pan. For extremely busy housewives, there is another way: all the components of the recipe can be laid together, but the vegetables must be chopped coarsely, and the meat finely;
Despite the simplicity of preparation, many make a typical mistake - they boil the ingredients and, as a result, the stew turns into porridge. To prevent such a mistake, remember a simple scheme: first, lay solid vegetables and meat ingredients, and delicate components such as cabbage, herbs and tomatoes at the very end;
When cooking, you can change the style of cutting. However, if you cut the potatoes into cubes, then all other vegetables should be of the appropriate type;
Don't forget technology. You are not preparing a sauce or soup, so you can not pour a lot of liquid. For a rich taste, it is desirable to use vegetable or meat broth. In some cases, the French replace them with white wine.

Remember, a real vegetable stew is a dish where all the ingredients differ both in appearance and taste.

And another recipe for vegetable stew is in the next video.

Properly cooked vegetable stew is a versatile treat. It can be eaten both as a main dish and as a side dish. The main thing is not to spare spices and use more delicious ripe vegetables.

A traditional recipe will include a large list of vegetables. Ingredients: half a kilo of tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, 350 g of onions and carrots, salt, a mixture of peppers, a pinch of cinnamon.

Eggplant without skin is cut first. They are soaked for 20-25 minutes in salty cold water, after which they are dried with a paper towel.
Peeled tomatoes are cut into small pieces. So that their skin can be easily removed, it is enough to immerse the fruits in boiling water and peel.
Carrots are cut into slices, and onions are cut into cubes.
Zucchini without seeds and peel - the same slices as eggplant.
Vegetables are laid out in a cauldron in the following order: eggplants - carrots - zucchini - onions - tomatoes. The ingredients are sprinkled with salt and spices.

Stewed vegetable stew with zucchini under the lid. It stirs periodically. Cook the dish until the food is soft.

With added potatoes

Potatoes make any dish more satisfying. For stew, it takes about a kilogram. The rest of the ingredients: half a kilo of young zucchini, fresh tomatoes, 150 g each of onions, sweet peppers and carrots, garlic to taste, salt, aromatic herbs.

First, slices of onions and carrots are fried in an oiled cauldron until golden brown. Then bars of zucchini and potatoes are thrown into the container.
Sweet pepper, crushed in any way, is added last.
On low heat, the mass is stewed, covered with a lid, for 15-17 minutes. Next, slices of tomatoes, chopped garlic and spices are sent to it. The meal is cooked for another 10-12 minutes.

Before serving, the stew should be well infused.

With mushrooms

Mushrooms are taken both fresh and frozen. They need 300 grams. Other ingredients: 2 zucchini, carrots, onions, sweet bell peppers, 2-3 tomatoes, a pinch of Mediterranean herbs, salt, a pinch of sugar.

First, frying in a large amount of oil is prepared from onions and carrots. Then mushroom slices and pepper cubes are sent to these components.
When the vegetables soften, you can pour slices of zucchini and tomatoes to them.
The mass is salted, sprinkled with spices and sugar.

After gentle mixing, the dish languishes in a thick-walled dish with a lid for 15-17 minutes.

Vegetable stew with pork

The addition of pork pulp will turn vegetable stew into a very satisfying nutritious dish. In addition to meat (400 g), the following ingredients will also be used: eggplant, large tomato, carrot, onion, sweet meaty pepper, a mixture of hot ground peppers, salt.

All components for the stew are always fried in vegetable oil - you can take olive, and sunflower, and any other. First, medium-sized pieces of pork are cooked in a hot liquid to a crust.
Next, the meat is poured with water with salt, spices and stewed for about an hour.
It remains to add all the coarsely chopped vegetables to the pork. Together, the components are stewed until soft.

Served with spicy ketchup.

How to cook with beef?

Instead of pork, you can take a piece of beef. Meat will need 400 grams. The rest of the ingredients: sweet bell pepper, half a large zucchini, eggplant, 5 potatoes, onion, carrot, garlic to taste, 300 g of white cabbage, a tablespoon of ketchup without additives, a glass of tomato juice, salt, seasonings. The easiest way to cook such a vegetable stew in a slow cooker.

Pieces of meat will be marinated in tomato juice for a couple of hours.
In the baking program, chopped carrots and onions are fried, as well as marinated beef.
Potato bars are added to the products. The mass languishes for another 12-15 minutes.
It remains to put the remaining vegetables, cut into small pieces, into the oven container. Cabbage is finely chopped, garlic is passed through a press.
The mixture is seasoned with ketchup, salted, sprinkled with spices.

All in the same mode under the lid, the dish will reach readiness.

With minced meat

Minced meat is suitable from any meat. It is better to take a composite (300 g). The remaining ingredients: 3-4 potatoes, zucchini, carrots, ¼ head of white cabbage, 2-3 tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, a glass of boiled water, salt.

Together with minced meat, onion half rings and carrot circles are fried for 6-7 minutes. With a spatula, you need to break all the lumps in the mass.
After adding thinly shredded cabbage and pepper sticks to a cauldron or deep frying pan, the mass is cooked for another 5-6 minutes.
At the end, pieces of tomatoes, zucchini and potatoes are added to the mixture.
When the potatoes soften a little, the ingredients of the dish are poured with salt water.
After mixing, they will be stewed under a tightly closed lid for 12-15 minutes.

The finished dish is served hot with any additional sauces.

Bake the dish in the oven

You can cook stew not only on the stove or in a slow cooker, but also in the oven. Ingredients: 3 potatoes, carrot, ¼ head of cabbage, onion, zucchini, 4 tomatoes, 2 celery stalks, 1 glass of boiled water, salt, Italian herbs, 40 g butter.

First, onion, diced, is fried in butter until soft.
All the remaining chopped vegetables are sent to the container in turn. Carrots are cut into slices, cabbage - into large pieces. The rest of the components are optional.
The products are put into a mold together with oil, sprinkled with herbs, salt, and filled with water.

The dish will languish in a preheated oven for about half an hour. It is necessary to set the temperature to 200-220 degrees.

Vegetable stew with meat and cabbage

This is a very tasty and easy stew. It includes a lot of vegetables and meat. Ingredients: 730 g pork, 310 g cabbage, 2 carrots, celery root, garlic to taste, any spices, salt.

The meat is cut into medium pieces.
Cabbage is finely chopped, garlic is finely chopped, carrots and celery are cut into strips.
First, in a well-heated and oiled pan, the meat is fried until golden.
Then gradually different types of vegetables are added to the container. Pre-roasting will allow them to keep their shape and will not turn into mush during further processing.
When all the ingredients are slightly softened, they are salted, sprinkled with spices and gently kneaded.
Next, the products are poured with a small amount of water and closed with a lid.

Vegetable stew with meat will languish on fire for about 40-45 minutes.

With Chiken

With chicken, a lighter version is obtained. In addition to a pound of meat, the following products will be used: carrots, a small zucchini, onion, garlic to taste, Bulgarian sweet pepper, a handful of cherry tomatoes, half a chili pepper, a bouillon cube, chicken seasoning, salt.

All vegetables are chopped according to the principle: the longer each of them is cooked, the smaller it is cut.
First, carrots are fried in hot oil with two types of peppers. Then zucchini, garlic, onions, tomatoes are sent to the container. The mass is salted. All its components should soften.
Separately, chicken pieces are fried over high heat, sprinkled with salt and seasoning.
Chicken is laid out with vegetables. The components are poured with broth diluted in a glass of water.

It remains to simmer the dish under the lid for another 25-30 minutes.

pot recipe

Pots allow you to make food even more juicy, tender, fragrant. Ingredients: 2 eggplants, zucchini, carrots, 2 bell peppers, the same number of tomatoes, 3 potatoes, onion, 120 ml of vegetable broth, 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, a pinch of sugar, salt, spices.

All vegetables are cut into medium pieces. Carrots, if desired, can simply be grated on a coarse grater. Tomatoes are first peeled before slicing.
First, pieces of onion, eggplant and zucchini are fried over high heat. These vegetables are sent to serving pots.
Peppers, tomatoes and potatoes are fried in the remaining oil.
The remaining components are also transferred to pots. From above they are poured with broth, to which sugar, salt and seasonings are added.
Lemon juice is added last.

Closed pots are sent to a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes.

Tava - traditional Armenian stew

This recipe has an interesting feature - it uses boiled meat. Take 400 grams of beef. The rest of the ingredients: 3 tomatoes, lettuce peppers and potatoes, 2 onions, a bunch of fresh basil and parsley, a pinch of cumin, black pepper, suneli hops, salt.

The meat is cut into pieces and boiled in salt water. The broth is left.
All vegetables are cut into large chunks.
Meat is laid out in the cauldron as the first layer. Next: onions - tomatoes - peppers - potatoes. Each of them is sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs.
All products are poured with the remaining broth and sprinkled with spices. Add salt if necessary.
The mass is stewed over low heat for 40-45 minutes.

Zucchini get rid of the skin and seeds, cut into cubes.
Onions and carrots are chopped randomly.
Tomatoes get rid of the skin and coarsely cut.
In turn, all prepared vegetables are fried in hot oil.
First - carrots with onions. Then the remaining vegetables are sent to the pan.
Zucchini will give a lot of liquid, so you need to cook the components before evaporating it.
Then dry rice is poured over the vegetables and water is poured in which salt and spices are mixed.

Cook until the cereal is soft.

Vegetable stew with zucchini and eggplant for the winter

Vegetable stew, if desired, can be turned into an original "winter" snack. Ingredients: 2.2 kg each of eggplant and zucchini, a kilo of yellow and red bell peppers, carrots, tomatoes and onions, a glass of sugar, 110 ml of table vinegar, 55-60 g of table salt, half a liter of vegetable oil.

Eggplant cubes are soaked in cold water and then washed.
Zucchini without skins are cut in the same way.
Pepper gets rid of seeds, stalk and chopped into medium straws.
Carrots and onions are cut into cubes. Tomatoes - medium-sized slices.
All prepared vegetables for vegetable stew with eggplant and zucchini are loaded into a saucepan, salted, sprinkled with sugar, poured with oil. The components are stewed for half an hour on a minimum fire.
Next is the vinegar. If the mass turned out to be too thick, then also half a liter of water. It remains to simmer the stew on the stove for 7-9 minutes.

Vegetable stew in the summer, in any form, both cold and hot, well, very good. They cook stew with zucchini, potatoes, and eggplants. Yes, and any other vegetables. And although it is vegetable, it is prepared even with meat.

Basically, vegetables are fried in a pan, but you can cook in the oven and in a slow cooker. I have long written an article in which three interesting recipes are called: Ratatouille - vegetable stew. Be sure to check it out, it's really beautiful, original and interesting.

Recipes for homemade vegetable stew with zucchini, eggplant, potatoes

Let's look at a few recipes, with different ingredients and cooked in different ways.

1. Recipe for a very tasty fragrant vegetable stew

Ingredients:

Eggplant - 5 pcs.
Sweet peppers - 4-5 pcs.
Onion - 3-4 heads
Potatoes - 600 g.
Medium tomatoes - 3 pcs.
Tomato paste - 1 tbsp. l. (or 1 cup grated tomatoes)
Garlic - 5 cloves
Salt, pepper to taste
Sugar - 2 tsp
bunch of purple basil
bunch of cilantro
Vegetable oil

Cooking:

1. Wash the eggplants and cut off the ends on both sides, cut into large pieces. Put into a deep bowl. Pour a teaspoon of salt, mix and leave for 15-20 minutes, so that they give juice and bitterness goes away. After that, rinse well, wring out and dry with paper towels.

2. We also cut the potatoes coarsely.

Try to cut vegetables the same size. Especially for salads, stews. It is both beautiful and convenient to eat.

3. Coarsely chop the onion. Wash greens, dry and chop.

4. My sweet pepper, dry it, cut out the core and chop coarsely. If possible, use sweet peppers of different colors, red, yellow, green. Then you will have a beautiful stew.

5. For tomatoes, we make a cross-shaped incision on the side opposite the stalk. We dip them in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, after which you can take them out and put them in cold water to continue working with them without burning yourself, or just let them cool a little. Now loosely remove the skin and chop coarsely.

6. We clean the garlic and crush it with the garlic.

Let's start roasting vegetables.

7. Pour vegetable oil into the pan so that it covers the bottom. Heat well and put the potatoes in the pan. Fry until almost done over high heat.

8. Remove the potatoes from the pan with a slotted spoon and put them in a colander to drain excess fat.

9. We send eggplants to the same oil. If you poured a little oil the first time, add it, but be sure to let it warm up. After 5-7 minutes, add the chopped onion. We mix everything.

When you put something in a pan, especially a hot one, do not forget to stir immediately.

10. When the onion becomes transparent, add sweet pepper. Mix everything again. At the same time, you can add hot pepper if you like. We didn't add.

11. Let's warm up for a couple of minutes and return the potatoes to the pan. Add half the garlic, ground black pepper, you can also add red. We put tomato paste or ground tomatoes, or tomato juice. Fresh tomato slices, sugar.

12. Pour out half of the greens.

13. We set the fire to the maximum. Gently mix everything gently. Don't make porridge out of vegetables. Close the lid and leave for 5 minutes. Then add the remaining garlic and herbs, smooth them over the surface of the vegetables and lightly press it with a spoon.

We don't add water at all. All vegetables are stewed in their own juice.

14. Cover again for a few more minutes.

15. After that, turn off the fire and let it brew for another 30 minutes to two hours. Who has the patience.

16. Our vegetable stew is ready.

Serve the dish hot or warm, after sprinkling with fresh herbs.

Look at this beauty. It's a pity to eat, I want to look, but such an aroma comes from him that it is impossible to endure.

Bon appetit!

2. Vegetable stew with zucchini, tomatoes and carrots

Ingredients:

Zucchini - 2 - 3 pcs.
Carrot - 1 pc. (large)
Onion - 1 head
Tomato - 1 pc.
Salt, pepper, curry
Garlic - 1 tooth.
Green onion, parsley.
Vegetable oil for frying

Cooking:

1. All products are washed, dried, cleaned, if necessary.

2. We have young zucchini, cut them into large slices, without peeling the skin, about 0.5-0.8 cm thick. You can cut a little thicker or a little thinner, just from this the cooking time will either increase or decrease. Well, too thick can be tough.

3. Slightly salt the zucchini, mix and leave to stand while we work on other vegetables.

4. Cut the carrots into large strips. Onion cut into thin half rings.

5. We put the pan on the maximum fire, pour in the vegetable oil and heat it up. Put the zucchini in the pan and fry on both sides until the zucchini starts to brown on each side.

6. When the zucchini is fried, add the onion and fry until the onion is transparent. Put the carrots to the onions and zucchini. When the vegetables are a little fried, salt and sprinkle a little curry. If you don't like curry, don't add it.

7. We send tomatoes cut into medium-sized slices into the pan. Sprinkle with your favorite spices, we have basil, Provencal herbs, a mixture of peppers and I always add hot peppers, but this is optional.

8. Close the lid and leave everything to simmer for 5-7 minutes.

If you like, at this point you can add a little cream or sour cream.

9. We send all the chopped greens to the finished salad. We have here green onions, and parsley, and green feathers of garlic. If there are no garlic feathers, add one or two cloves of ordinary garlic squeezed through the garlic.

10. Mix well and our delicious vegetable stew is basically ready.

Don't overcook the vegetables. They should be a little cheese, not porridge.

Arrange on plates, decorate with a sprig of greens and serve.

Bon appetit!

3. Recipe for vegetable stew with zucchini, eggplant and potatoes with photo

Ingredients:

Sweet pepper - 3 pcs.
Eggplant - 3 pcs.
Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
Onion - 2 heads
Garlic - 3 cloves
Zucchini - 1 pc.
Salt pepper

Cooking:

1. We cut the washed eggplants into large cubes, sprinkle with salt, mix and leave so that they give juice and bitterness with it.

2. We also cut the potatoes into large cubes. We will cook potatoes separately. Pour a little water into the pan, salt, put the potatoes and cook until almost cooked.

3. Cut the onion into thin half rings. Pour a little vegetable oil into the pan, heat it up, fry the onion until soft, and then add the sweet pepper cut into large pieces.

4. Stir and fry for 5-6 minutes.

5. Drain the dark liquid that has appeared from the eggplants. We wash them well, dry them with a paper towel and add to the pan to the onions and peppers.

6. Mix everything. Fry for 5 minutes. Then close the lid and simmer for another 8-10 minutes, until cooked.

7. We cut the zucchini not thickly in a semicircle or, if large, in quarters. And fry for 5-6 minutes in a separate pan. Be sure to salt.

8. Cut the tomatoes crosswise. Pour boiling water for 2-3 minutes. We take out and remove the skin.

9. Cut the tomatoes into small pieces and add to the eggplant. We also send zucchini there. Salt tomatoes, pepper, mix everything.

10. Drain the water from the potatoes, add the finished boiled potatoes to the vegetables. Squeeze the garlic in there. We mix. Cover with a lid and simmer for another 5 minutes.

In general, vegetables are fried over high heat, but when stewed, we reduce the fire.

We lay out the finished vegetable stew on plates and sprinkle with herbs.

Bon appetit!

4. Video - Vegetable stew with meat

Bon appetit!