hidden veg recipes

[softmusk]

hi my children have just decided i dont like veg

has any one got any good hidden veg recipes or ideas

would really like a pasta sauce one

thank you

Roughly chop onion, peppers, courgette, carrot, maybe some butternut squash and garlic.

Fry a little, then add tin toms and simmer until veg cooked. Blend.

I have served this for some very fussy children and clean plates all round!
Couldn't be easier - make loads and freeze.
Serve with sausages if you like.

I pureed some peppers, carrots and cheese after my son saw me preparing the peppers and said he didn't like them. He ate 3 portions of pasta and sauce.......

puree green veg in pesto

I find this pasta recipe works well as it is quite sweet. Roast a red pepper in oven. when cool peel(placing in plastic bag when warm makes peeling easier).Saute Half a chopped onion with a crushed clove of garlic .then chop and add your pepper. Next add a tin of plum tomatoes(don't break these up as it can add a bitter taste) and a small tin of pineapple in own juice. Cook gently for about 15 mins cool and blitz. hope this is of some help.

Not a pasta one but put avocados in banana smoothies - makes them really creamy. Water them down with apple juice though, otherwise it's so thick you can stand a spoon up in it!

would they recognise the veg if grated? Grated carrots and courgettes are nice in shepherds pie/lasagne etc. Or if they like tomato sauces on their pasta, mix in any pureed veg. Have you tried them with raw veg? Some children prefer raw to cooked - eg carrot & pepper sticks with a dip. Also, try encouraging them to have just one very tiny tase of whatever veg you are eating. It worked a treat on my son with liver (which I know isn't a veg but same principle!)He loves it now and even asks for it sometimes. Still working on my daughter with that one tho!

Just get a vegetable rotary chopper - something like the Pampered chef veg chopper which quickly chops vegetables so small they are practically pureed. Then you can hide the offending vegetables in bolognese, cottage pie, any casserole etc

if making potato mash, mash it up with parsnip and/or carrot. I tell my children it has been in the sun a little too long.

They also like to drink their vegetables juiced. Especially if they get to juice the vegetables themselves.

Homemade soups are also good.

Jamie Oliver's Pasta Sauce (f*ck me, it's good )

Makes 3 litres (freeze in 750ml pots from lakeland)

Butternut squash - cut in half and roast for approx 30 mins

3 samll onions, 2 red peppers - finely chop.
3 courgettes, 3 carrots - grate.

Saute veg on low-ish heat for a good 10 mins. Scrape out flesh from roasted squash and add to veg. Add 6-8 tins of chopped tomatoes. Add 3 bay leaves and a teaspoon of dried oregano. Bring to boil and simmer for 30 mins. Adjust seasoning with S&P.

Allow to cool and blend with a hand blender. Freeze in 500ml portions.

When thawing, add a teaspoon of sugar to 'cut through' any veg bitterness (Angela Harnett's recommendation for all tomato sauces).

Cheese sauce with spinach in. Whizz up in blender. Is the most lurid green ever. I made up a whole long story about the aliens leaving it behind, it being made on venus out of special space liquid etc etc.

DC LOVE it. They have NO idea it contains a power vegetable!!

can hide anything in bolognese

cheers

will be trying them ideas

thanks again