Veggie recipes your kids love?

[Proustianmoments]

We recently became vegetarian as a family and are trying out lots of new recipes - we've got loads of books (Green Roasting Tin, Jamie Veg, World Vegetarian...) which are great but one or other of the kids (primary age) turns their nose up at maybe 80% of the dishes, which is obviously not great. They prefer Quorn nuggets etc but we obviously can't live on those.

What are your favourite veggie recipes that your kids love? Midweek/quick/easy would be great but more involved recipes welcome too. :)

Mine used to love macaroni cheese

Dd has always loved dhaal (lentil curry) with rice.

Thank you! One child doesn't like pasta and one doesn't like spicy food, but both would be good for the other one

I have one quite fussy DC and I search high and low for healthy things she will eat, especially vegetable-based. She will eat most things that come in a wrap, so I make vegetable fajitas or burritos/tacos with black bean chilli (not very spicy). I also make a type of vegetable pancake - it is a thick, American-style pancake batter with sweetcorn, grated carrots, grated courgette and cheese in it. Then ladle spoonfuls into a frying pan or griddle and serve with a poached egg/baked beans.

Also, most pasta-based dishes. Sometimes I add pureed butternut squash to macaroni cheese which ups the vegetable content without seeming to affect the flavour too much!

Homemade soup - vegetable/lentil/tomato/minestrone also usually gets eaten if there is plenty of bread to dip in.

There's a brilliant broccoli and bacon pasta bake recipe in the quick roasting tin. We just leave the bacon out. I whizz you the stalk and all.

Jamie's veggie enchiladas are fab.

Roasted veg and feta quiche
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/roasted_summer_vegetable_82276

Mushroom risotto or asparagus risotto

Mushroom and halloumi burgers
www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/vegetarian/mash-burger/

Frittata with spinach, new potatoes, cherry tomatoes, cheese

Veg stir fry (carrots, baby corn, mushrooms, mange tout, bean sprouts) with noodles

BBC good food burnt aubergine chilli (it isn’t spicy) has recently gone down well with young nieces and nephews. It’s a long cook but it’s easy to do a huge batch and freeze.

Also. Try the yummly app. You can tap in all the dietary reqs and go from there. I've found loads of recipes on there

Ooh thank you everyone, loads of great ideas.

I think I'm going to try Jamie veggie enchiladas first, and then work through the rest. Burnt aubergine chilli sounds amazing :)

Will check out yummly app too.

Root veg toad in the hole
Baked butternut squash falafel in pitas
Haloumi, red pepper and pineapple skewers
Pea and leek Gnocchi bake with Stilton and breadcrumb topping
Bean burgers
Shakshuka

That burnt aubergine is amazing!!!

Thank you @AtleastitsnotMonday - do you use a recipe for the Baked butternut squash falafel in pitas?

Halloumi and pepper kebabs
Veggie chilli enchiladas/burritos/wraps/tacos
Bean burgers
Soups
Veggie hotdogs
Veggies bangers and mash
Courgette and feta frittata
Veggie pizzas

Tbh, majority of food can be turned veggie I find

Another one praising the burnt aubergine chilli - it has dark chocolate in it so 5yr old will eat it, calls it chocolate chilli!!

Homemade pesto goes down much better than jar here - could put on potatoes or as a dip for the one who doesn’t like pasta?

Mine love cheesy bean pastries - sheet of puff pastry, bit of beans and cheese, brush with egg. Not very healthy but can serve with veg!

The butternut squash wontons in Jamie's veg book are lovely. DH and I make them regularly and they were fiddly at first but now we can knock them out in about 20 minutes once the squash is cooked. I was worried about the miso (does anyone else remember Gillian Keith forcing people to eat miso soup? Made me scared of it for years) but I couldn't pick it out as a flavour, just a good mix of sweet veg and savoury flavouring).

The allotment cottage pie in the same book is delicious. As are the Dosa's (what kid doesn't want a pancake dinner?). I found an easier recipe for the dosa batter but follow the rest of the recipe.

Dosa batter: Mix 300ml warm water with 1tsp yeast, 100g plain flour and 50g rice flour. Leave to sit while cooking dosa filling. Just before cooking, add 1tbsp apple cider vinegar and 1/2 tsp salt.

Got halloumi kebabs on the menu for next week, think I'll try the butternut squash wontons too!

Has anyone made the aubergine chilli without gas? We just have an electric cooker...

Homemade pesto a great idea too! They love fresh pesto :)

Most of what's been said, but also mattar paneer, bean chilli, roast cherry tomato pasta, grated carrot and courgette pasta, and 'yellow lentils'. The last one also doubles as a lentil paté when cold - I can pm you the recipe if you're interested, it's really easy.

@Proustianmoments

Thank you *@AtleastitsnotMonday* - do you use a recipe for the Baked butternut squash falafel in pitas?

I use this Sainsbury’s recipe. I wouldn’t say they were super quick but not ridiculous. Also make loads and freeze (uncooked).

@Proustianmoments

Got halloumi kebabs on the menu for next week, think I'll try the butternut squash wontons too!

Has anyone made the aubergine chilli without gas? We just have an electric cooker...

I'll admit I haven't tried it (have a gas stove) but I would think you could achieve the same effect under the grill - like you do with peppers.

@AtleastitsnotMonday thank you! That looks great.

@adarkwhisperinthewoodwasheard the recipe for yellow lentils would be great thank you! Also if you have a fave one for mattar paneer :)

Potatoes and onion omelette with cheese if you like

Definitely think aubergines under grill would work for the chilli - tbh I’ve never gotten a strong auberginey taste in the chilli so maybe I’m doing it wrong on the gas! It’s still delicious.

I’ve used this blog a few times for veggie kids ideas as well www.sneakyveg.com/