Vegetable stew with chicken, beans or beef

Vegetable stew is a dish that should be in everyone's diet. Already from one name one can understand the enormous benefits that it brings to the body. After all, vegetables contain a lot of substances that a person needs every day. How useful the vegetable stew will be depends on the ingredients you have chosen. This article will help you learn how to prepare delicious, and in some cases, low-calorie dishes.

Vegetable ragout with chicken is definitely worth periodically offering not only to household members, but also to guests. It can act as an independent dish during lunch or dinner. To cook a vegetable stew with chicken, you need to take 700 grams of poultry meat (for example, thighs), two Bulgarian peppers, 150 grams of chicken broth, three potatoes, two tomatoes, onions, spices, salt and pepper to taste.

Now cut the thighs into three parts, pepper them and salt. Then put them in a deep baking tray, previously oiled, and send to the oven for about 25 minutes. At this time, take care of vegetables. Wash them and cut them: pepper - strips, tomatoes - slices, onions - semicircles, potatoes - slabs. Fold the vegetables in a separate bowl and carefully sprinkle the seasoning for the chicken, salt and pepper, and then mix it thoroughly. Now you can get the chicken out of the oven. Distribute the vegetable mixture over it, add chicken broth or water, cover the baking tray with baking sheet and put in the oven for half an hour. This vegetable stew with chicken is served in deep plates and necessarily sprinkled with fresh herbs.

If you are a fan of more "solid" red meat, then you can use any of its kind. For example, vegetable stew with beef. It will certainly be appreciated by men who do not adhere to the rules of healthy eating. Take half a kilo of meat, cut it into small cubes and fry in a pan until golden. To beef, add a large carrot, cut into strips. Then you can send in a frying pan and potatoes (three pieces), cut into thin plates, an onion and one Bulgarian pepper, also pre-shredding, attach to the rest of the ingredients. Pour into a pan two glasses of water, pepper and salt its contents and leave to stew under the lid for 50 minutes. Approximately 15 minutes before the end of the cooking process, sprinkle with parsley or dill. This dish will decorate any meal.

Often people because of health problems or fasting can not afford to eat vegetable stew with chicken, beef or other meat. But for them there are also many recipes. Try to make a vegetable stew with beans, but not only plain, but also asparagus. The resulting dish will be dietary and will not lose its flavor qualities. You will need two hundred grams of plain white beans and asparagus, a zucchini, carrots, a bulb, two tomatoes, a bell pepper, tomato paste, greens and a bay leaf. Wash the white beans for a night in cold water, and boil it in the morning. And cut the asparagus slices. It must be boiled until half cooked. Now take the zucchini and cut it into cubes, tomatoes - thin slices, carrots - straws, Bulgarian pepper - strips. Now in the saucepan warm up the vegetable oil, put there onions and carrots, then asparagus beans, fry all this. Then you can send the rest of the vegetables. In the process of preparation, it is necessary to put tomato paste, spices, bay leaf in the saucepan. All this is stewed until readiness. At the very end, a simple bean is added. Dish it turns out fragrant, satisfying and at the same time very useful.

All the year round, various vegetables appear on your table all the time. So why not put them together in a stew? Try it - you will not regret it.