Convenience foods from vegetables are very popular. After all, they prepare quickly and easily. There are several ways to defrost vegetables. Which one to use determines the character of the future dish.
Cooking vegetables in a pan
Pan-frying is the easiest way to cook frozen vegetables. In this way, cook frozen green beans, beans, tomatoes, corn, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, green peas. First, place the skillet on the stove, place the vegetables and fry. For the first few minutes, grill the vegetables over very high heat with the lid open. The vegetables will defrost and the water will evaporate. When there is no water at all, add 2 tablespoons. vegetable oil. If there are a lot of vegetables, add more oil. At the same time, add salt to the dish and add spices. Now cover the lid and grill the vegetables until tender. Use the resulting dish as a side dish or serve it yourself. You can add toasted vegetables to mashed potatoes or porridge.
Cooking vegetables in a saucepan
Soup can be made from the same frozen vegetables. If you use commercially available freezers, choose those mixtures that say on the packaging that this is a future soup. First, boil 1.5 liters of broth. It can be meat or chicken. Place the meat with bones in 1.5 liters of water in a saucepan. Cook for 40 minutes and then remove. Remove the meat from the bones and cut it into pieces. Cooking time for chicken is also about 40 minutes.
If you want to make a vegetarian soup, put the water to boil on fire. At this time, fry 1 chopped onion and 1 carrot. You can add tomatoes to the mixture. So, the cooking order is as follows: add chopped potatoes (3 pcs.) Or cereals (200 grams) to the broth, then frozen vegetables, and then sauté. Bring the broth to a boil, season with salt and pepper. At the very end, add a piece of butter to the soup. The dish is ready!
Defrosting vegetables in dough
Sometimes frozen vegetables are used for pies and rolls. You can take any dough: yeast, butter, puff, shortbread. First defrost the vegetable filling in a pan with sunflower oil. Just grill the vegetables until tender. You can add cheese to the filling after frying. After that, roll out the dough on the table, put the filling inside the pie, and put another layer of dough on top. Cover the cake well so that it does not fall apart.
If you are making an open pie, add a whipped cream egg to the filling. Such an omelet mass will perfectly "bind" the filling components. Therefore, it will not decay and crawl out of the dough.
In certain cases, the filling can be frozen directly into the dough. This is possible if the ice layer is small. In such a mixture, salt and spices should already be present in sufficient quantities.
