Buckwheat gravy without meat - with onions, carrots and tomato paste 🥣

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• thick bottom pan with a lid;
• cutting board;
• kitchen knife;
• grater;
• cooking vane;
• kitchen scales;
• beaker.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Peel 2 medium onion heads, cut it into small cubes.
   
2. Wash 1 medium carrot, peel it. So that more vitamins remain in the vegetable, you can very thoroughly wash the root crop, scrape off the damaged areas with a knife. Grate carrots on a coarse or medium grater.
   
3. Heat 50-60 ml of vegetable oil well in a pan with a thick bottom. Set medium heat, add chopped onion. Wait (4-6 minutes) when the pieces become transparent, stir as necessary.
   
4. Add the grated carrots to the onion, mix the contents of the pan. Reduce the heat to small. Stew the mixture until the carrots are ready, stirring the vegetable mass from time to time.
   
5. Add 1 tablespoon of wheat flour to the vegetable mixture. Stir until the flour has completely dispersed in the oil component.
   
6. Dilute 3 tablespoons of tomato paste in 500-600 ml of drinking water until smooth. Instead of pasta, you can take the same amount of tomato juice without salt. If the juice is salty, then you do not need to add salt to the vegetable mixture (or reduce its amount). Pour the resulting fill into the pan, mix. You can adjust the density of the gravy. Add not all tomato juice to the sauce at once, leave 100 ml to look at the density of the gravy. If you want the dish to be more liquid, pour out the remaining fill.
   
7. Salt, pepper the gravy to taste, add 0.5 teaspoon of red ground paprika and a pinch of any mixture of herbs. Mix well.
   
8. Cover the pan, simmer the sauce for another 2-3 minutes over low heat. Try the sauce to taste, add the desired ingredient. Let stand on the stove under the lid with the fire turned off for 3-5 minutes, serve with a side dish.
   

This excellent lean sauce is suitable for all second courses and side dishes: buckwheat and rice porridge, pasta, boiled and fried fish, and other dishes. Other ingredients can be added to the sauce: fresh chopped greens, garlic, bay leaves, allspice and black pepper, various spices and herbs, mushrooms, tomatoes, bell peppers, cauliflower and other lean foods.

Video recipe

Watch the detailed step-by-step preparation of lean buckwheat gravy in the video. The hostess tells in detail and shows the whole process in dynamics.