So who has any fab recipes with hidden fruit and veg?

[mamadiva]

DP and DS are very very fussy eaters (DP has never tried most veg so says he doesn't like it because that's just how his mum is!) so I need some recipes where I can hide some in their food that they won't notice.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Please throw your recipes this way

Ju st puree them and add them to everything even cakes they will never know

Shepards Pie - I put loads of vegatables in that.

Puree Veg in Cakes - eeewww

Carrot cake is yummy / banana bread.

If you chop up loads of veggies really finely or blitz them, you can add them to spag bol, shepherd's pie etc. I think JO has a recipe for a tomato sauce with loads of veg in.

Puree carrot parsnip and sweet potato are sweet.They will not be noticed in cakes at all

Was musing on this over weekend - my DDs do my head in with veg avoidance. i thought of doing some little taster pots - mashed carrot and swede, pea puree, sweet potato etc for them to taste and choose favourites. Thought it might get them to try.

Lives in hope. (hmm)

I think Jools Oliver in her deeply terrible baby book has a good spag bol sauce recipe at the back - a friend lent it to me! Involves sweet potato, carrot, courgettes, peppers, garlic, onion etc etc all chopped very fine and fried up with mince and pancetta. I still use it but basically it's like the Shepherds Pie, just bung a load of grated veg in.

You could make your own bread and grate (very finely) a carrot or a courgette into it when making the dough. I often do this and you can't taste it at all (like carrot/courgette cake) but it makes the bread nice and moist.

I put extra veg in anything that starts with an onion base (Spag bol, chili con carne, cottage pie, meatballs etc) but I mince everything up in my magimix so the family don't know. My usual ones are onions, carrots and celery and then whatever else is in the fridge. Even about 50/50 with the meat they don't seem to notice and it makes it cheaper as well.

Roast veg eg onions, courgettes, peppers, any root vegetable, squashes etc in a little olive oil. Then liquidise with passata, fresh herbs and spinach. Use in whatever you would add passata to. ie pizza topping, lasagne, shep pie, pasta sauce, casseroles.

Mashed potatoes can have quite a few other things mixed in with them (swede, squash, carrot, pumpkin, sweet potato are the first ones that come to mind - only one at a time best I think) and still taste pretty much like mash, especially with ketchup or whatever dp/dcs like to eat with it.