There are many ways to cook vegetables. This is both healthy and tasty. Especially when it comes to a dish of pumpkin and celery. It can decorate a festive table and delight vegetable lovers.
Pumpkin is not just a vegetable, it is a miracle culture. It is rich in vitamins, all kinds of minerals, and has many medicinal properties. And in conjunction with celery, pumpkin is especially useful. Such dishes will help relieve stress, get rid of edema, and for expectant mothers - this is an excellent remedy for toxicosis.
To prepare pumpkin with celery, you will need the following ingredients: 300 grams of pumpkin, 100 grams of celery root, sunflower oil, wheat flour, 2-3 tablespoons of sour cream, salt and black pepper to taste. First, rinse the vegetables well, then peel them. Remove pumpkin seeds and cut into small cubes. Do the same with celery.
Then add salt to the sliced pumpkin and celery and let sit in the container for a few minutes. This is done so that the vegetables give juice.
It is recommended to use a cast iron pan for frying. Pour oil into it. It is preferable to cook with olive. And the oil is heated, roll the pieces of vegetables in flour. You can now fry the vegetables on both sides.
If the dish will be put on a festive table, then it is better to roll the chopped vegetables in bread crumbs. This will make the food look appetizing and have a pleasant golden color.
After the vegetables are ready, you can put them on the dish. As a decoration, pour sour cream over the vegetables and sprinkle with chopped green onions. For a variety of colors, you can cut the tomatoes into circles and place them over the prepared vegetables around the edge of the plate.
If suddenly you did not have sour cream on hand, and you think that the dish will turn out to be not satisfying enough, do not despair. Chopped pieces can be sautéed in a beaten chicken egg. Grate the garlic into the egg or simply sprinkle with salt.
If you do not like fatty foods, you can use a simple trick: put the fried pieces on a paper towel. The excess oil will be absorbed - and the vegetables will no longer be so oily.
Fans of dishes with a richer taste can complement the recipe and make the same fried vegetables, but with a marinade. To do this, you need an enamel saucepan, a couple of garlic cloves, 100 grams of balsamic vinegar, a couple of basil sprigs, ground pepper, rosemary or sage to taste.
To prepare the marinade, chop the garlic cloves and pour the vinegar over the gruel, adding salt and pepper to taste. Put the resulting mass on medium heat in an enamel saucepan. Let the marinade simmer for 2-3 minutes.
While the marinade is cooking, lay out the fried vegetables in layers, using each layer of your choice of spices. You shouldn't add a lot of sage or rosemary - it can "kill" the taste of the main course.
Now place the vegetables in a glass bowl and cover them with the marinade. The dish should be infused for about 3 hours. When the ingredients are well saturated, you can serve food to the table.
When making a pumpkin with celery under a marinade, you do not need to season vegetables with sour cream. Combining it with vinegar is not good enough.
By giving preference to this dish, you can not only have a hearty lunch or dinner, but also get a decent dose of useful trace elements that are contained in these vegetables.
