Category — vegetarian recipes

Learning how to cook mushrooms is easy, especially if you have the basic cooking skills and practice. Mushrooms are an excellent replacement for meat, in case you are on a diet, or you are vegetarian, or even vegan. Going vegetarian is not as simple as you’d think. That’s because our body still needs proteins, and if we don’t eat animal products,. those proteins are very hard to get, as they are not included in all vegetables and fruits. We have to learn to compose meals that are rich in all nutrients needed for good health, and we need to consider food supplements as well.

Back to our mushrooms cooking, one of the recipes my family loves is this one, which mixes the mushrooms with a white garlic sauce, giving them an excellent flavor.

Ingredients for two

• 1 kg. of mushrooms
• 1 garlic
• 6 spoons with flour
• 350 g. of cow milk
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

How to cook mushrooms with garlic sauce

1. Grate the garlic. Salt it.
2. Cut the mushrooms. Salt and pepper them.
3. Fry them, at medium temperature, for 5 min.
4. Add 200 g. of hot water.
5. Continue to boil them for 15 min. Keep the remaining water.
6. Put the garlic in the vegetable oil, at a medium temperature, for 2 min. Add 10 spoons from the remaining water.
7. Warm up the milk.
8. Add 1 spoon with flour. Stir. Add 5 spoons from the remaining water. Stir.
9. Add 1 spoon with flour. Stir. Add enough milk for the flour not to stick. Stir.
10. Repeat until you finish the flour.
11. Put the mushrooms. Stir for 3 min.

Leave it for five minutes in the pan before eating.

Serve hot, with bread or polenta. This is a meal that is very good immediately after finishing cooking. Leftovers are not that great, so you’d better make sure to prepare only as many portions as you know your family will be eating that day.

Ingredients for two

• 10 carrots
• 4 parsley roots
• 1 small celery root
• 2 apples
• 200 g. of mayonnaise
• salt, pepper

Preparation:

1. Grate all the vegetables and the apples on the medium side of the grater.
2. Dry them by wrapping them in a clean towel and pressing gently.
3. Mix them up with the mayonnaise, the salt and the pepper.

Serve after refrigerating for 10 minutes. For fancy dinners, put the salad in small bowls, cover the surface with a thin layer of mayonnaise and decorate with pieces of olives, red peppers and parsley.

Ingredients for two persons

• 2 eggplants
• 3 red bell peppers
• 1 vegetable marrow
• 4 bouquets from the cauliflower
• 2 onions
• 300 g of green beans
• 500 g of tomatoes
• 300 g of peas
• 2 carrots
• 250 g of potatoes
• parsley
• 1 garlic
• dill
• olive oil
• salt, pepper

How to cook it:

1. Cut all the vegetables, except from the parsley and the dill, in medium cubes. Add salt and pepper.
2. Fry them in olive oil, at medium temperature, for 10 min. Stir.
3. Add 100 g. of hot water.
4. Put the pot in the oven, at medium temperature, for 30 min.
5. Add the parsley and the dill, cut very small.

Serve hot. In case you don’t want to fry the veggies and you have more time to spare for cooking, you can try a vegetarian lasagna based on the same ingredients, plus the lasagna typical ones. You’ll see how delicious a vegetarian’s life can be.

Quantities for two portions:

• 1 kg of spinach
• 1 garlic
• 1 lemon
• 100 g of milk
• 5 spoons with flour
• vegetable oil
• salt

How to cook it:

• Boil the spinach, at medium temperature, for 5 min. Leave it to chill up and cut it small.
• Cut the garlic very small or grate it.
• Slice the lemon.
• Fry the garlic, in vegetable oil, for 2 min. Add hot water. Flour. Stir until you obtain a white sauce.
• Mix up all the ingredients and stir for 5 min.

Serve hot. Spinach with garlic and lemon can also be served as a side dish for steaks or fried eggs.

Vegetarian recipes require creativity in order to satisfy the most pickiest eaters. This is why veggie cuisine has developed to a very high degree of refinement. For example, leek is just an ordinary vegetable that most people wouldn’t have for lunch, no matter what. However, creative chefs added a few black olives and the scent of laurel, in order to create a true delight of the senses. You can now recreate this great, flavored taste at home, in this inexpensive but good meal.

Ingredients for two:

• 500 g of leek
• 200 g of black olives
• 1 leaf of laurel
• 1 lemon
• 4 spoons with flour
• 100 ml tomato sauce
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure:

1. Cut the leek in 5 cm long pieces. Fry it, at medium temperature, for 3 min, than pour 200 g of hot water. Stir.
2. Boil it for 5 min.
3. Add the olives, the laurel leaf, the slices of lemon, the salt and the pepper and boil it for 10 min.
4. Put the flour, one spoon at a time, adding water in between. Stir.
5. Pour the tomato sauce. Boil for 5 min.

Serve hot.

Necessary ingredients (for two)

• 200 g. of rice
• 1 leek
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 carrot
• 2 tomatoes
• 100 g. of mushrooms
• olive oil
• salt, pepper

How to cook it:

1. Grate the carrot.
2. Cut the rest of the vegetables in small cubes.
3. Boil the rice.
4. Fry the vegetables in olive oil until they are ready, but not soft. Add salt and pepper.
5. Mix up the rice with the vegetables and boil them for 5 min.

Ingredients for two persons:

• 350 g. of potatoes
• 4 eggs
• 200 g. of pressed cheese
• 2 onions
• 1 pepper
• 100 g. of sour cream
• olive oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure:

1. Boil 3 eggs for 5 min. Slice them.
2. Slice the onion and boil it for 3 min. Then, fry it in olive oil with the sliced pepper for 3 min. Salt them.
3. Grate the pressed cheese.
4. Slice the potatoes 1 cm thick. Fry them for 3 min on each side. Salt them. Add pepper.
5. Put 1 row of potatoes on a pan with olive oil in it.
6. The second row will be the onion and the pepper.
7. The third row, the eggs. Put pressed cheese on top.
8. Repeat the alignment until you finish all ingredients.
9. Put the pan in the oven, at medium temperature, for 20 min.
10. Mix up the sour cream with the remaining egg. Add salt and pepper.
11. Take out the pan from the oven; pour the mixture on top and put it back. Leave it in the oven for 10 min.