How to cook vegetables in a slow cooker

Vegetables are good in any form, and cooked in a slow cooker have their advantages. The main feature of this kitchen assistant is that in the process of cooking, food is subjected to a more gentle heat treatment, rather than on frying, cooking or baking in a conventional stove, thereby maintaining a larger amount of vitamins. The creation of vegetable masterpieces occupies quite a bit of time, but they just melted in the mouth. What can be done with vegetables in this multifunctional device?

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Steamed vegetables

Steam vegetables can be served as a side dish to meat and fish or in the form of a separate dish - in both cases it will be delicious and useful. They prepared in this way, they retain the maximum number of vitamins, and are made very simple and quickly.

Take your favorite vegetables, my thoroughly, cleanse from the peel and cut large pieces: if it is broccoli or cauliflower, then share on inflorescences if carrots are ringlets, other vegetables - large cubes. Pour water into the bowl, in a special container put the chopped vegetables, add salt and spices to taste and turn the cooking mode for a couple for 15 minutes, can be extended if necessary.
If there are difficulties in finding fresh vegetables, you can cook and frozen. In this case, they do not need to defrost, immediately load them into the container, simply increase the cooking time for 5-7 minutes.

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Boiled vegetables and vegetable soups

In a slow cooker, we can make vegetables for salads, as well as light vegetable soups.
Vegetables for salad can be prepared either on a pair, or cook in water. For this purpose, my vegetables and without cleaning from the peel are immersed in a bowl, pour water and turn the cooking mode or "soup" for 20-30 minutes.

Soups are also very simple. Standard set for soup: Onions, carrots, potatoes, bell pepper. The rest add to taste and desire: broccoli, Brussels cabbage, podlock beans, etc. We rinse all vegetables, clean and cut into small cubes. On the bottom of the bowl add several spoons of olive or vegetable oil and turn the "frying" or "baking" mode. When the oil is warm, we pour onions into it, pass to a clear yellow color and add carrots and pepper. Lightly please all together, about 10 minutes. Add water and potatoes, change the mode to "soup" or "cooking", cook 15-20 minutes until the potatoes and add the remaining vegetables. Another 15-20 minutes - and the soup is ready. In total, the cooking process takes no more than an hour. If you make a more dietary version without a roasted, then it will take even less.

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Stew vegetable dishes

There are a lot of recipes stewing vegetable dishes, you can invent them yourself, when you understand the principle of work of this miracle of technology.
Choose vegetables to your taste, wash, clean and cut medium cubes or straws. At the bottom of the bowl pour several spoons of vegetable oil and turn on the "frying" mode. Loading onions, garlic, roasting to translucent and add carrots, Bulgarian pepper adding to translucency and add carrots. Put the literally 5 minutes, add all other vegetables and seasonings, switch to "quenching" mode by 50-60 minutes.