How often do you sautee your veg?

[Clarin]

Very boring question.

Im a self taught cook. And have pretty much come to sautee basically all my veg - fresh and frozen alike. Sweetcorn, green beans, broccoli, peas, cabbage etc.

But I just never see anyone else in my family or friend group doing the same. I can’t be the only one doing this. It’s so easy and genuinely tastes the best imo. No watery veg ever!

Am I just very unobservant. Just curious…

I never boil veg although that’s what I grew up with.

I think what you describe is "sweating" which is a foul term for food!

Most veg get sauteed in our house. Pretty much the only things I'd ever boil are potatoes and some green veg like sprouts.

I don’t generally because that means you actually have to supervise them, whereas I can just leave them in the steamer to do their thing. Lovely to have the time to properly get into cooking, it’s very rare that I have the time these days.

I guess I just quite like the flavour you get from getting a little color on the veg

Things only get sautéed at weekends. Week nights veg all goes into one dish in the oven, whilst I get on with everything else.
I only boil eggs and pasta.

Neither of those is sautéing, though.

I cook most of my veg in a pan with a small amount of oil or butter and spices/garlic/ginger (the seasoning is dependent on what is being cooked and desired end result). Or I roast things. The only vegetables I actually sauté would be courgettes and mushrooms, I think. Sometimes sliced peppers.

I have never boiled or steamed a vegetable. The idea makes me feel quite depressed. 🤣

I mostly stirfry with onions and garlic, sprouts, broccoli, carrots, courgettes, green beans, aubergine, mushrooms etc. Love roasting carrots, sweet potato, squash, peppers etc too. Very rarely boil veg, it's a bit plain and boring! I'm not white british either, maybe that's why? My granny always fried her veg with onions, garlic and spices and they were delicious!

I have sometimes used those frozen steam veg bags in the microwave but I always add a knob of butter, a squeeze of lemon and lots of black pepper!

@ForZanyAquaViewer I agree - OP is not technically sautee'ing most of her veg.

What's the word for cooking them slower with fat and spices? Is it braising?

Using the correct termonology, I apparently sautée greens sometimes! We love (what we used to call chargrilled, but I'll be using correct terminology from now on. Natch. ) sauteed greens sometimes with a little dressing, or piled in a wrap with some halloumi or similar.

I guess stir frying veg is similar to sautéed as well in which case, we do that a lot too!

I almost never braise vegetables because it takes to long but a good braised leek, red onion and cabbage is fantatic with salmon.

I steam pretty much all vegetables, apart from peppers/courgettes /aubergines which I either fry or oven cook. I only sauté things like onions/carrots/mushrooms etc when I’m making soup or stew or a sauce.

Omg I read this completely wrong. I saw this when first posted and thought it said “how often do you sautee your vag?” And deliberate didn’t open it at first for this reason. Haha Wednesday brain

Calling @GwynethPaltrow

I put mine in the airfyer. Except peas and sweetcorn, they just get a quick dunk in boiling water.