Genius hidden veg ideas

[BewareTheBeardedDragon]

I came across an idea to finely grate peeled courgette and add to Mac and cheese the other day. Was highly skeptics because dc are like super veg detectives normally, but did it tonight and it was utterly undetected and undetectable (even I forgot it was in there 😂). Second and even third helpings were devoured.

Sharing for the greater good and in hopes of more tried and tested ideas from others!

Oh that's good..I tried adding cauliflower to mac and cheese and they detected it. I make a pasta sauce with tinned tomatoes and aubergine, courgette, a yellow/orange/red pepper and carrot which they will eat!

Home made burgers with carrot and apple grated in.

Sweet potato in the dough of home made pizza.

Courgette in muffins and breads.

Curry www.myfussyeater.com/hidden-veg-chicken-curry/
Meatballs www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/cooking-kids-spaghetti-meatballs-hidden-veg-sauce
Burgers www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/veg-packed-cheeseburgers
Enchiladas www.tamingtwins.com/beef-enchiladas-recipe/

Grated carrot, grated courgette and a couple of balls of frozen spinach in all pasta sauce. Blended with a stick blender if they are being exceptionally fussy, at which point I add peppers too just to get my own back

It’s DS1’s favourite meal now

Mine loved mash. So I did orange mash with orange veg and white veg or green mash with geeen veg.

When I do rice stirfry, I include broccoli and cauliflower. Both disappear in the stirfry.

Hairy bikers chicken katsu from the Make It Easy book. The katsu sauce is basically carrots and mushrooms. Delicious, very moreish, total winner in our house.

However on the whole we prefer the other 2 Hairy Dieters books.

Ooh, so many good ideas!

Hairy Dieters 😂😂😂

@MissCreeAnt can you link to this recipe please.

Liquidise sweetcorn, carrot or any cookee non-green vegetable and add to pancake batter. Cook the pancakes then serve with grated cheese. Green veg also works but many kids won't eat green pancakes.

@JamMakingWannaBe I had a quick look online and couldn't find it. I mentioned the source in case that helps someone with better googling skills.

Roasted butternut squash puréed and added to the roux for Macaroni cheese. Handful of lentils and a grated carrot in tomato sauce for pizza or pasta.

Sweetcorn fritters www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/sweetcorn-fritters/

Anyone got a great Mac and cheese recipe???

Beetroot brownies www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-beetroot-brownies

Managed to get my extremely fussy eater DD to a healthy 15 now on my hidden vegetable pasta sauces, hidden veg jacket potatoes etc. She's eaten a lot of vegetables over the years without being able to detect & reject anything. She will now eat single cooked veg on her plate, so success

I liquidise carrot, onion, peppers and mushrooms into my bolognaise sauce 😀

There’s a nigella Mac & cheese recipe that uses sweet potato but butternut squash would work fine (it’s lower carbs)
A bag of frozen diced butternut squash, a red onion, red pepper, tin of tomatoes, a tin of veg stock. Boil and blend for a rich tomato soup with added veg they’ll never know is there.

I cook courgette chunks together with the pasta for m&c.
I agree courgettes are very 'hidable' they have a very light taste and sort of melt into whatever you are doing.
I add them to other sauces as well,
during courgette glut season I'm happy to relieve desperate friends from some of their surplus and freeze in portions. in chunks and grated.

celeriac is another one. breaded celeriac slices make great 'schnitzel' or 'nuggets'

I invented 'chickeny pancakes' in our house. I throw all leftover cooked veg (or do raw stuff) and some roast chicken into the mini chopper so it is finely chopped, mix with egg, flour and milk. It makes a super thick batter. Fry in a little veg oil with little butter and they LOVE it.

You can do grated raw stuff but I do whatever is easiest to grab there and then.

@steponthetightrope

I invented 'chickeny pancakes' in our house. I throw all leftover cooked veg (or do raw stuff) and some roast chicken into the mini chopper so it is finely chopped, mix with egg, flour and milk. It makes a super thick batter. Fry in a little veg oil with little butter and they LOVE it.

You can do grated raw stuff but I do whatever is easiest to grab there and then.

yep, we do leftover 'muffins' mix whatever leftover you have with egg and bake in cupcake cases. depending on the amount freeze or add to lunch boxes.

I used to make cupcakes and put shredded carrot in them. My dds only ate carrots as bunnies ate them and they can see in the dark. They never gave peas a chance (M25 bridge quote that we use).