My best recipe for vegetables on the side
I have made up for a childhood of hating most vegetables in adulthood and loving them in abundance. In summer I want salads with most meals, and in winter I love cooked vegetables.
My favourite way of eating vegetables in winter is simply oven-roasted mixed vegetables. Olive oil, garlic (or not), herbs, and salt and then roast them until the outer flesh is slightly caramelised and the inner flesh is nice and soft.
I also like to think of ways to wake up and add flavour to simple vegetables.
As this has become such a popular post, I have decided to keep it updated with more recent recipes for side vegetables.
Roast pumpkin with chilli yoghurt & coriander sauce
See pic above
Spinach salad with grilled zucchini, peas, feta & mint
This is the most versatile salad you can get and my favourite to whip up at any braai / BBQ. It goes with meat, chicken and fish and crowd-pleaser.
You will find a collection of all my salads to serve at a BBQ/braai here.
Crispy noodle slaw with soy, honey & ginger dressing
My best Air Fryer roasted green beans
Roasted broccoli & green bean salad with burrata and lemon
Roasted tomatoes with mozzarella and basil
Avocado salad with orange & fennel
Roast smashed new potatoes with brown butter sage
Crispy roasted new potatoes with miso & chive sour cream
Morrocan carrot & fennel salad with sultanas & pistachios
Nutty black and white rice salad with peppers and raisins and ginger, soy and honey dressing
New potato salad with fennel & radish
The famous and world-best whole roast cauliflower recipe
Roast sweet potato with coriander dressing and spicy yoghurt
Roasted sweet potato with parsley & walnut pesto
Esquites – the living best Mexican corn salad
zucchini linguine with parmesan
Asparagus with anchovy butter & Parmesan
Bok choy and mushrooms with miso dressing (flash-cooked)
Sweet potato shoestring fries with garlic & rosemary
Jamie Oliver’s crispy zucchini flowers with spicy ricotta & mint
Oven-roasted sweet potato ‘fries’ with orange salt
Oven-roasted beetroot (improved recipe) with pistachios and dukkah
the best-ever carrots cooked in carrot juice
Broccoli pilaf with pomegranate & almonds
Chermoula aubergines with bulgur & yoghurt
Hassleback potatoes with chipotle butter
Green beans with red onion & Pecorino
zucchini shoestring and ribbon fries
Roasted aubergines with harissa & garlic
black mushrooms stuffed with goats cheese butter and dill
creamed onion gratin with blue cheese
green and black bean stir fry with red pepper
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Beautiful post – it has renewed my love for veggies!
Thanks Darling – I love veggies too and always nice to add a little twist. 🙂
Yummm! Those sweet potato fries look too good Samlet. I haven’t seen orange sweet potatoes up here before..I hope I can get my hands on some!
Ally, I have found them in Checkers and they are so yummy, you wont want white sweet potatoes ever again.
broccoli tossed in balsamic vinegar and parmesan is tasty. Just tried it recently and I enjoyed the melding.
Some great ideas here! Although it’s hard to choose, I think the new potato & fennel one is my favourite.
I love roasted veggies! They are so good for you. And who doesn’t love mushroom stuffed with goat cheese? Such a great combination of flavour!
– Brittany
Thanks so much Brittany 🙂
This is a post that must be shown to all veggie haters! 🙂
Thank you Paola 🙂
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Thanks for the kind words Chhaya 🙂
The green and black bean stir fry with red pepper looks amazing! But there are so great dishes to choose from.