Interesting but easy ways to cook veg, please

[SuperBunny]

Rather than boiling or steaming etc.

For example, last week, my friend made green beans which he sauteed in sesame oil and garlic & added soy sauce and cashews near the end and it was delicious. Much better than my green beans with butter.

Any other suggestions, please?

Especially for broccoli, green beans, peas, corn. Or anything.

green beans wrapped in pancetta is nice, ive eaten this in restaurants but not made it myself, not asure how you cook the pancetta so its still soft enought to wrap around the beans

Broccoli with chilli flakes and olive oil mixed into pasta is yummy.

Love mashed sweet potato as something different - DH had nrever eaten Sweet Potato so that really is something different in this house.

Asparagus in cheese sauce wrapped in pancetta is nice too.

Yum, thanks. Forgot to mention, we don't eat meat so pancetta is out for us!

Broccoli with lemon juice and capers is also good. I like the idea of it with chili on pasta.

Broccoli strifried in sesame oil with a few sesame seeds, a dash of soy sauce and some crushed garlic.

Very lightly steamed greens (asparagus, spinach, fresh peas particularly good) with lemon juice and black pepper - very good with fish or chicken.

Sugar snaps, stirfried with half an onion (diced), 1 clove garlic (crushed), 1/2 red chilli (de-seeded and diced)
and cooked until tender. Add a drizzle of honey and some sesame seeds when it's cooked, mix around and serve straight away.

Brussells with caramelised onions & toasted almonds:
Sweat diced onion in unsalted butter or olive oil if you prefer. In a separate pan, lightly toast almonds in a little bit of oil. Blanch sprouts in salted boiling water for a minute, then drain. Add brussells and almondsto onion oan, add more butter and heat the whole thing thoruhg. Add a bit of salt and pepeper to taste.

Glaze carrots with almost anything! Red wine & rosemary, maple syrup, honey & coriander, honey & ginger etc...

Griddled veg - asparagus is especially nice if you 'blacken' it and serve with wedges of lemon.

MrsMattie, that is great! Thank you.

Coincidentally, we just had broccoli with sesame seeds and soy sauce. Yum.

I often make a green bean salad:

Boil/steam green beans till very tender (you don't want them al dente for this dish).

Gently fry a chopped onion in a very generous glug of olive oil, and season with black pepper and salt. When the onions are soft, tip the green beans into the pan and stir to make sure they're covered in oil and the onions are mixed in.

Turn up the heat and then add a generous splash of white wine vinegar. It will bubble fiercely. Once the vinegar fumes have died down, take the pan off the heat.

Serve when cold. Keep stirring the beans to make sure the dressing coats them.

Peppers

Thinly slice red and yellow peppers (I generally allow one per person) and saute with olive oil over a relatively high heat till they start to brown. Then turn the heat down and let them cook till they're soft.

SEason with salt/black pepper.

When cooked, stir in some chopped fresh coriander and add a little balsamic vinegar.

Roast veg: chop some sweet potato/squash/courgette/peppers/onions into chunks, put in roasting tin, drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, add herbs of choice plus black pepper, roast in oven till melty. Yummo.

Green beans and poppy seeds: heat some oil in a wok or saucepan, chuck in a good handful of poppy seeds. When they start popping, throw in blanched green beans, chopped garlic and a bit of red chilli if you like; stirfry for a few minutes then serve.

A nice cabbage dish: do the hot oil and poppy seed thing as above, then throw in some shredded green cabbage, some grated carrot and a green chilli that has been cut into strips. Stirfry for five minutes, then add a big handful of chopped coriander, half a teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of sugar and some lemon juice. Stirfry for about a minute more, then serve. This is lovely cold the next day too.

i love potato and celeriac boiled with some garlic cloves and then mashed together