Favourite quick and delicious ways with vegetables please

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I always seem to do veg very much as an afterthought, unadorned and frequently from the freezer. Am always put off by fiddly veg accompaniment recipes that basically involve cooking an entire extra dish in its own right; what I'm looking for is simple and QUICK ways of doing veg that make it extra delicious (honeyed carrots, courgettes grilled with herbs, French beans with garlic - that kind of thing).

Inspiration please

stir fry shredded cabbage instead of boiling it, and throw in some sesame seeds and a slug of soy sauce - much nicer! (But beware, soy sauce doesn't necessarily go with other sauces)

cut cherry tomatoes in half, and cut small new potatoes into pieces about the same size as the tomato halves. Put them in an oven proof dish, coat them with olive oil and some herbs and put them in the oven on 200C for half an hour. Then give them a good stir and pour in a quarter of a pint of either stock or white wine and put them back in the oven for another half hour - scrummy.

Add some butter, shredded basil leaves and mixed seeds to peas (after cooking).

I just chop up a load of veg, peppers, sweet potatoe, butternut squash, red onion, courgette, baby sweet corn or what ever you have lying around, chuck in a roasting tray with a chopped red onion and garlic, drizzle with olive oil and roast for 30-40 mins. Sometimes i chop some feta cheese and add to it (so dd1 will eat it)

I always add onion to the cabbage and a knob of butter, you can also add small cubes of baccon.

Roast carrots and parsnips drizzled with honey or honey and mustard.

Excellent suggestions, many thanks all. More welcome

I roast parsnips in maple syrup. Got the idea from Nigella Christmas programme. Often fry cabbage with garlic. Also shred and saute leeks. Love roast veg.

Good idea for a thread.

Yummy bozza

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Chop carrots into thumb-sized pieces, lay in an oven-proof dish, sprinkle over olive oil and fennel seeds. Cook in oven (sorry don't know how long or what temperature - this is dh's specialty really). Add a squeeze of lemon juice just before you serve them.

sounds lovely nonick

I also see where I can add veg to whatever I"m cooking - courgettes, carrots regularly go into bolognaise etc.
Also salad as a starter to take the edge off your hunger is a good way of upping the greens without it being a hassle.

Carrotts are also good if you cut them into battons chuck em in some tin foil with some olive oil and thyme ad make it into a bag type thing then pop them into the oven for about 30 mins.

Excellent - thank you!

Just doing an online shop so am planning to do some of these this week. Any more welcome

moroccan warm potato salad
-boil and cut in chunks while still hot/warm

• sprinkle with paprika/cumin/olive oil/lemonjuice/spring onion/chopped parsley (turn this into a meal by serving on bed of salad and top with good quality tinned sardines or tuna)

Green bean (okra even better) mini casserole

• cut 3 chunky tomatoes. Throw in pan with oilve oil/crushed garlic
• add green beans from freezer and stew 10 mn (add alittle water if dries.

mediteranean courgette

• Cut in sticks and boil or steam 5 mn
• dress while still warm with olive oil/lemon juice and a little grated rind/dried thyme/cumin/salt and pepper

Generally veg are happiest if you are generous with herbs and spices.

add some diced raw onion or slightly cooked onion to mash or some grated cheese\

some diced bacon or ham in mash is nice

what about mixing pumpkin or sweet potato with mash (my H ONLY eats mashed potato)

mix some baba gannosh or homus into it tooo

some nice mint in the water when preparing peas (again so is diced bacon or ham) or just a spoonful of honey and seom sesame seeds thrown in with the carots at the alst minute

thank you!

slim22 I did your okra idea - delicious - and DH also loved it

roasted veg
but add cubes of feta for the last 10 mins of cooking time

Fave veges for roasting?

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Fave veggies for roasting are butternut squash, parsnips, swede, vine/cherry tomatoes, peppers, and whole little gem lettuces. And potatoes (of course!) but I know they don't really count as veggies!
I do the above combos with olive oil and salt and pepper, but also for variation I add cumin and coriander seeds. Sometimes a pinch of chilli flakes.
And while we're on the roasting subject, you can roast chickpeas in with the veg for nice crunchy bits that you would get from potatoes, and much healthier!

Oh! And onions and garlic. How could I forget

shrooms I love chickpeas - great idea

Hi, glad you liked it.

Here's more for chickpeas

1. slice 1 onion and 1 tomato and caramelize in pan with olive oil/sugar

2. add chikpeas (drained from can) /chopped coriander/cumin/chili flakes/ salt pepper.
   Toss

sweet potato chips-- cut into wedges, drizzle with a little oil (works best if you don't drown them) salt, pepper + chili powder and roast in a hot oven.

roasted parsnips with honey + mustard