Vegetable recipes for a vegetable refuser

[Bennyk]

Can anyone share any recipes with vegetables that are a hit with kids who are resistant to eating vegetables?

My son is 6 years old and is getting pickier and picker as he gets older. He used to eat everything without problems but over the years he has gone off pretty much every vegetable and getting him to eat a vegetable is a struggle. Looking for some recipes with vegetables that my son will hopefully enjoy eating as I am running out of ideas and I am sick of listening to complaints at every meal time.

Jamie Oliver's Seven veg pasta sauce includes tomato and red pepper, looks like a red pasta sauce

Have you got a stick blender/food processor? If he would eat it you can get a huge amount of veg into soup, just blend until really smooth. If he will eat mash potato you can mash or a potato topped cottage/fish pie you can add parsnips, butter beans, carrot, sweet potato to that.
Blitzed mushrooms are undetectable in mince dishes, as are courgettes and finely grated carrot.

Less disguised but perhaps a more acceptable form for him might be bean or veg nuggets or burgers or falafel.

Veg skewered between chunks of chicken breast?
Cauliflower cheese or cheesy leeks?

Following with interest because my son is the same. He is fussier about texture than taste if that makes sense, so some of these might seem quite adventurous but there is an element of blending involved.

we do:

spaghetti and meatballs/sausage: veggie-packed red sauce blended then mixed with oven-cooked meatballs/sausages. We really like the quorn meatballs.
Spag Bol: everything chopped up super fine or grated and by the time it’s cooked it’s all quite soup-like.
mild curries: sweet potato dal, butter chicken/quorn, sag paneer “green cheese curry”. We go for a recipe where the sauce is made separate from the protein and blend.
green Mac and cheese: frozen spinach and peas blended into the cheese sauce.
chilli con carne, sometimes with turkey or quorn mince (grated veg)
sausage and bean casserole with mash

I used to be able to put anything in a soup and he would eat it without a problem but that doesn't happen anymore.

He will eat mash with carrots but I can't get away with any other vegetable.

Cottage pie always goes down well I grate mushrooms in to it and put decent onions and carrots which he will eat it they aren't too big.

Lasagne with carrots. I find the smaller they're chopped the easier.

We had a surprise hit this week with mashed swede and carrots.

I used to blend cauliflower, butternut squash, milk and cheese to make a sauce for mac n cheese. My two were so picky but didn't know this sauce had veg in for years.

Pesto sauce can make veg like peas and pasta tasty.

Tuna, mayo and sweetcorn pasta or jacket potato's

Enchiladas with red pepper and baby corn.

Risotto with veg and Chorizo.

Frozen corn or peas, straight out of the freezer
Raw veggies like peppers or cucumber icy cold and crunchy
Offer some dipping sauces in case they like them, include lemon, soy, teriyaki, ketchup
Sprinkle cooked ones with maldon salt..give a little dish and let them do it
Talk about eating a rainbow
Make the veggies into a picture and talk about eating the roof or the eyes

Try giving him them raw. I didn’t eat any cooked vegetables until I was in my late 20s but would eat anything apart from potatoes in its uncooked version.

My mum went for “better eaten than cooked” and I eat all vegetables.

But, my mum’s dinners were almost all meat/fish, potatoes and vegetables so it was easier to separate than a vegetable curry etc.

Cut the tops off sweet peppers, pack the cavity with sausagemeat. Put the lids back on the peppers, and bake in the oven (180 degrees) for 30 minutes. Add a baton of garlic bread and bake them both for another 15 mins.

The peppers caramelise and become sweet and sticky while the sausagemeal cooks through. Serve them together.

Add parsley or chopped garlic to the sausage meat, depending on what your dcs will eat.

Get some whole Frozen Spinach balls , thaw them then cut with scissors into smaller pieces, a blender doesnt work well, hence scissors better ,put in large plastic jug NEXT .Thaw frozen string beans and small brussel sprouts then put in blender , blend NOT into a puree but medium size bits , then add into another large plastic jug or similar.
NOW ,pour the beans/brussels into a large saucepan and half fill with water , then add and stir the cut spinach into the saucepan and mix .Now get a container like morrisons pack multiple pork chops in.(clear plastic rectangular display tray)
Put a hand into the saucepan and grab a hand full of the mix and squeeze it into like a small green snowball and then put onto the tray , do this until the saucepan is empty, then put the tray into the freezer.
Now you have vegetable snow balls you can use for a single persons portion or family portion with a dinner using a microwave in a jug with a bit of water to cook OR to add into a soup or similar food/recipe. Easy, available any time and any dish of your choice BON APPETTIT .

Get some whole Frozen Spinach balls , thaw them then cut with scissors into smaller pieces, a blender doesnt work well, hence scissors better ,put in large plastic jug NEXT .Thaw frozen string beans and small brussel sprouts then put in blender , blend NOT into a puree but medium size bits , then add into another large plastic jug or similar.
NOW ,pour the beans/brussels into a large saucepan and half fill with water , then add and stir the cut spinach into the saucepan and mix .Now get a container like morrisons pack multiple pork chops in.(clear plastic rectangular display tray)
Put a hand into the saucepan and grab a hand full of the mix and squeeze it into like a small green snowball and then put onto the tray , do this until the saucepan is empty, then put the tray into the freezer.
Now you have vegetable snow balls you can use for a single persons portion or family portion with a dinner using a microwave in a jug with a bit of water to cook OR to add into a soup or similar food/recipe. Easy, available any time and any dish of your choice BON APPETTIT .