roasted vegetables

[jambuttie]

I hear of people having this a lot instead of a main meal e.g meat potato etc.

This may be a really silly question but what can you roast and is the veg boiled first?

Do I add oil and seasoning?

I hate peppers and runner beans but would love to have this dish.

Any suggestions for me please?

I am on a diet too so low fat/carb for me

I do a combination of mushrooms, peppers, aubergines, butternut squash, courgette, new potatoes. Just slice them up and bung them in the roasting dish with some olive oil. If you want to make it v low fat spritz them with an oil & water spray. Can add fresh herbs, sun dried tomatoes towards the end. Squeeze of lemon juice or some balsamic vinegar is yummy. We have it with grilled tofu or quorn but you could have chicken or whatever. Just cook it on high and stir once or twice until getting crispy round the edges. Serve with rice or quinoa.

We had these tonight with a roast chicken. I cut up carrots, parsnips, courgettes (although we all hate them, don't know what came over me, I won't do that again!), red onions cut into quarters, a whole bulb of garlic with the end cut off, baby sweetcorn, red peppers and I think that was it. Cut them all roughly the same size, drizzle them with olive oil, put them in the oven in a roasting dish and keep an eye on them. They take 45 odd minutes, sometimes more, sometimes less, depends on how crisp you like them! You can roast most things, I would have added butternut squash but couldn't see any (is it out of season?). I sometimes add broccoli too but cooked it separately tonight.

Lovely with some pesto and some tinned tuna stirred in with some toasted pine nuts and shaved parmesan on top....deeeee licious

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sounding good folks.

Is sweet potato just like a potato?

Roasted broccolli is a revelation. Try it with drizzeld with oil and a little soy sauce, it's really delicious - only takes about 10-15 minutes though

Sweet potato can be cooked like a potato - but it tastes yummy

Try SP chips, roasted, mash, baked or in a soup or casserole....mmmm lovely

Oooh yes sweet potato chips with chilli mayo - YUM

and would i cook sweetpotato chips, roasted like

boil then roast or peel and straight to roast.

god how dim do I sound

Do too much veg next time - usual way as described with a little olive oil, seasonin, maybe some smoked paprika or rosemary and lemon. With the left over veg, pop them in a pan with a little stock (maybe chicken if roasting one too). Bring up to boil and simmer gently for half an hour. Blitz and have wonderful homemade roasted veg soup for the next day, feeling really pleased with yourself as it involved virtually no work!

SP chips - peel boil and deep fry (lovely - but not slimming)

Just been to asda. Have bought for my roasted veg 1st attempt.

Babycorn,
sweet potato(1st time on these)
cherry tomatoes
red onion
parsnip( 1st time on these)
mushroom
leeks

To season i bought
rosemary
garlic salt
basil
mixed herbs

I have the olive oil in already

So I need to boil the sweet potato and chuck all things together in a roasting tin with oil and season for about 45 mins is that right?

No - I'd only parboil the sweet potato if I were doing chips

45min in the oven should be OK - I think

It's cooking now. Smells yummy I must say.

Hubby isn't a veg man really but me and the boys are having it.

Will do an assortment really for tea tonight

Roasted veg
Hot and spicy crispy prawns
Duck and pancakes
Pakora
Pizza

Should please them all take what they like and leave the rest I so can't be bothered to cook a meal tonight so this will do

Ok what did I do wrong?

It ended uo like mush!!!!!!!! wanted it to be crispy veg too

I know I over cooked the sweey potato but all the veg went mushy no crisp at all.

Was it because most of it was frozen veg?
Was it because I cooked to much?
Was it because I had to much oil in the roasting tin?

Oh I was soo looking forward to them too how dissapointed am I?

Frozen veg has too much water to roast properly. If you went too mad with the olive oil it might not have helped, you just need to coat the veg.

Yes, I'd say frozen + too much olive oil is the culprit, you just need to drizzle it. And def fresh veg. Do try again, it is worth it imo. We had some left over from last night and had them for lunch mixed into cous cous made with veg stock, it was lovely.

We have roast veg loads but I've never managed to get the blend of herbs and spices correct on my own so I cheat and use a sachet of schwartz mediterranean roast veg it is delicious! hope this helps. It formed a large part of my slimming world diet.

I too was hoping mug for this to be part of my scottish slimmers diet plan but failed tonight

I will try again maybe tomorrow with less veg and oil though. I have stacks of frozen veg left now but it won't go to waste

Oh I am sorry you were disappointed

I think frozen might have been the problem as well

Don't let it put you off

Thought it would be easier to grab veg from freezer and throw it in a roasting tin- win't be doing that again though

Going to go back to asda today for fresh veg and see how i go

I need shares in asda

thanks for posting this, jambuttie. I do sweet potato oven "chips" (cut into chip shapes, drizzled with olive oil)and parsnips cooked around a joint (remove all or at least some of the core, cut in half anything too woody) but have often wondered how you do onions/ other veg

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Jambuttie, I do roasted veg all the time at the mo, take it to work for lunch instead of salad, with parmasan shavings on top. I think definitely to do with frozen veg but I used also to have the same trouble with it being a bit on the soggy side. I now always cook it with the fan oven on as well, I think that disperses the moisture that comes out of the vegetables and crisps them up. Works every time now.

Good luck