Delicious and healthy side dishes for meat: cook with love.

Perhaps, meat with a side dish is a favorite dish of many people. At least, the male half of humanity prefers just this delicious dish. Yes, and women, no, no, and they pamper themselves with a good chop with cabbage or potatoes! Garnish, as well as meat, can be cooked for a wide variety of recipes. That is why it is not possible to calculate the number of meat recipes with garnish - there are a lot of them. And everyone in this diversity finds the most favorite and tasty dish for themselves and their families.

What can you cook garnishes for meat? What are they needed for? Is it so useful and necessary? In fact, they are practically indispensable. Without garnish, even the most delicious meat can quickly get bored, become fresh and unappetizing. Garnish is an important part of any dish. They increase its nutritional value, diversify the taste, make food more attractive and appetizing, thus increasing its digestibility.

Garnish for meat, as a rule, is prepared from vegetables, cereals, legumes, potatoes and pasta. All these products can be boiled, allowed, fried or put out. Here everything depends on your preferences and the type of diet that you are currently adhering to. In addition to the garnish, you can prepare a salad of fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, green salads, as well as any other fresh, canned or soaked fruits and vegetables.

Consider the most popular and favorite recipes for meat garnishes.

1. Cereal side dishes.

   From cereal side dishes to meat are often cooked buckwheat or rice. In addition to these cereals, you can use as a garnish pearl, wheat, oatmeal or oatmeal porridge. Recipes for cooking these dishes are easy to find in any cookbook. As a rule, the croup is boiled in salted water. Then, to give a crumb of friability, add butter. It is much more convenient for today to use cereals, packaged in bags for cooking. In this case, you do not have to calculate the amount of water needed to prepare it.

2. Garnishes for pasta.

   A huge number of kinds of pasta introduces a wide variety in our food. As a side dish to cutlets or chops you can cook and spaghetti, and cockleshells, and horns, and spirals, and nests and much, much more. Since the pasta in the boiled form is quite fresh, it is advisable to add butter after cooking or to prepare them for vegetables.

3. Garnish for meat from potatoes.

   Perhaps, potatoes are the most favorite dish of Russians. Boiled or fried potatoes, mashed potatoes, potato stew, potato pancakes or croquettes - all these dishes can become an excellent side dish to any meat dish.

4. Vegetable side dishes.

   The most nutritious, rich in vitamins and useful are the second dishes from vegetables. The most popular vegetables in our country are cabbage, beets, zucchini and carrots. Let's try to calculate how many recipes garnishes for meat can be prepared from them:

• Cabbage stewed in tomato; With carrots in milk; With prunes; In sour cream; With apples;

• Beet stew; Beet pulp; Beets in sour cream;

• Zucchini in dairy sauce; Mashed potatoes; Zucchini stewed; Zucchini roasted; Zucchini with tomatoes;

• Carrot puree; Carrots in dairy sauce; Carrots, stewed in sour cream; Carrots with green peas; Carrots with prunes; Carrots with apples.

But these are only recipes of dishes from 4 main vegetables. Do not forget about the pumpkin, eggplants, green peas. But the most delicious and useful side dish to meat, perhaps, will be a vegetable stew from a mixture of vegetables.

Very often restaurants and canteens offer sophisticated side dishes to meat, consisting of 2-3, and sometimes more different products. Depending on the catering enterprise, as well as on your personal preferences, the combinations of these products can vary greatly. You just need to consider that the products are combined to taste. But in color, it is desirable that the products of a complex garnish differ radically from each other. So, for example, potato and beet pulp - an excellent complex side dish, as well as mashed potatoes and stewed cabbage. But rice boiled and potatoes, or vermicelli and buckwheat - are unlikely to be combined.

Here are some of the recipes for complex garnishes to meat:

• Potato boiled, mashed or fried and cabbage (beetroot) stew;

• Fried potatoes, mashed potatoes and green peas;

• Fried potatoes and carrots in dairy sauce;

• Carrots (beets) boiled and peas green;

• Carrots, stewed with apples, prunes and boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes;

• Beet (carrot) puree and green peas;

• Porridge buckwheat crumbly and carrots puffy;

• Green peas, carrots (beets) and boiled apples.

Using this variety of recipes, you will certainly prepare delicious, nutritious and healthy side dishes for any meat dish.