What veg do you have with your meals? Stuck in a rut.

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I have 2 dc's, one who will try anything and one who won't. And a DH who thinks he's allergic to vegetables

Every meal ends up with the same sides, sweet corn, broccoli and sometimes carrots. I'm fed up with the same thing over and over again so looking for inspiration.

What sides would you do with a roast? How can I get more variety into our meals? Thank you

Roast parsnips, cauliflower cheese?

Love cauliflower - with or without the sauce
Try adding some ginger butter to cabbage
Roasting butternut squash with cumin seeds
Roasting parsnips with some Parmesan
We do Delia Smiths roasted Mediterranean veg with cous cous and harissa sauce

Wilted spinach with ginger butter is also lovely.

If they'll eat broccoli, try Romanesco - the bright green cauliflower in dinosaur spike florets. It's not always in season but it's really delicious. Milder than broccoli.
If they'll eat peas, try mange tout and sugar snaps.
If they eat carrots, chop butternut squash into small cubes and roast with a bit of butter, honey and thyme. That goes well with a roast.
Finely shredded red cabbage baked in the oven with finely sliced onion or shallot and apple, and a hint of spice, Just give them a teaspoonful of it.
Steam some asparagus spears just for you and let them try one if they want.
Make your own burgers and stir into them very finely minced or pureed red peppers, mushrooms, spinach and onions. Puree courgettes and peppers, mushrooms and onions into tomato suace for pasta, pizza toppings and chilli beef sauce.
It's a slow process. Took us forever to get them to try new veg but they got there in the end.

Creamy leeks- just lightly steam or boil them, then stir through some creme fraiche, Parmesan and tarragon and pepper. Really nice with roast chicken.

Sweet potato mash, or parsnip mash.

whothe - wilted spinach with ginger butter sounds delicious. Never thought of doing that with spinach. Going to try it this week. Do you grate the ginger? Or use dried?

Watching with interest! We are also in a veg rut.

Mashed carrot and turnips. French beans, mini corn, veggie kebabs.

feed grated fresh ginger.

Also love Indian dishes. Matar paneer is fabulous. Omit the chilli or only use a pinch if you don't like spicey food.

Roast celeriac. Whizz cauliflower in the processor and fry with a little olive oil until nutty.

With a roast dinner I serve
Carrots (boiled or raw depending on the child)
Sweet corn (loose and on the cob again depending on the child)
Peas/mange tout
Cabbage ( I like red braised with butter, onions, dijon mustard and chestnuts if I've got them)
Leeks
Broccoli
Roast parsnips
Roast carrots
Sweet potatoes

Agree with muttar paneer, that's a whole meal for us, love it! Bhurta is also delicious

Some great ideas, thank you

Buttery Savoy cabbage, maybe with bacon.

Roast cauliflower is lovely and our preferred way of having it now. Very hot oven. Put florets in a good solid metal roasting tin or baking tray (with a rim) arranged in a single layer, pour over a bit of oil, sprinkle over some salt, pepper, paprika (ordinary or smoked or a mix), ground cumin or cumin seeds. Could also use some ground coriander and/or garlic. Mix well. Needs about 30 minutes.

Can be mixed with onions and diced potatoes too. At the end you could mix in some baby spinach leaves which will wilt in seconds on contact with the hot veg. A good squeeze of lemon juice before serving is lovely too.

gas was going to do cauliflower with white sauce but did the roasted instead. Thanks for the idea.

Hope it went well! You need to check it's cooked through as it's better without too much bite left in it, for my taste anyway.

Apparently some people do broccoli like that too but I prefer that steamed or very lightly boiled and I do like a bit of bite in my broccoli.

I bought some frozen brussels sprouts last year, can't remember why now, but I found a recipe for roasting those and tried it recently just to get them used up. It was OK. I think in future I would stick to fresh ones, though, and boil/steam them.

Frozen peas....especially the petit pois ones. They are frozen really quickly after harvesting and taste really fresh.

Roasting veg is definitely the way to go to make it taste sweeter and more interesting. I love Mediterranean roast veg, roasted cauliflower, roasted sweet potato and butternut squash, carrots and parsnips, it's all lush. Just peel and chop up whatever veg then chuck in a tray with some oil, salt, pepper and whatever herbs or seasoning you want. Roast till delicious.

Mashed swede and carrot is also far beyond the sum of its parts, lovely with a roast.