Stewed turnips with vegetables

A very simple, easy and healthy vegetable dish! Turnips stewed with vegetables can be served as an independent dish or as a vegetable side dish to meat, chicken or fish. This dish is suitable for a vegan menu, it will be appreciated by those who are dieting and watching their figure. In addition to all of the above, the advantages of the dish include the presence of turnips in the main vegetable, which can be called a real storehouse of vitamins, because it contains a huge amount of useful substances. You can cook a huge number of dishes from turnips. But many refuse to use this vegetable for cooking, believing that turnips are bitter and have a specific smell. And in vain, turnips are a delicious and sweet vegetable.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 9 % 1 g
Fats 45 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 45 % 5 g
64 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 40 min

Prepare the ingredients. in addition to the set of vegetables specified in the ingredients, you can optionally add some more to taste, for example, Bulgarian pepper, it will give a pleasant taste to the dish. It is better to use a turnip for a dish young and juicy, small in size. Large root crops are usually dry, hollow inside, not very juicy and tasty.
Prepare vegetables for the dish. Turnip wash, peel and cut into small cubes. Carrots are washed, cleaned and cut into cubes, straws, grated or passed through a food processor, which will significantly reduce the time spent on preparing ingredients.
Peel the onion and cut into cubes. Tomatoes can not be used to prepare this dish, but they give a pleasant sourness, masking a little blandness of the dish. Tomatoes are washed and cut into cubes.
Pour a little vegetable oil into a saucepan. We warm it up. Put onions and carrots on the oil, fry for about 5 minutes, stirring them with a wooden spatula. Vegetables only need to be put on a little, without frying them until they get a golden roast, in order to preserve the maximum vitamins in vegetables, and make the dish healthier.
Add turnips to carrots and onions. Add salt, ground black pepper to taste. If desired, you can add any more herbs or spices to taste. Fill with water so that it covers the contents only by half. Mix it up. Cover the saucepan with a lid, bring the mixture to a boil and simmer the dish over medium heat for about 20 minutes. then remove the lid, add tomatoes to the pan. Mix it up. And simmer under the lid for about 10 minutes. then turn off the fire, let the dish stand under the lid on the stove for about 10 minutes. we put the vegetables on plates, sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs on top.
Bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Turnip - 30   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g

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