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Vegetable Recipes

Raw sliced vegetables on skewers

Vegetable skewer. Rita E. / Pixabay.com / 2018 / CC0 1.0

Vegetables are the workhorses of our kitchens, carrying the burden of filling the plates while a small piece of meat gets all the glory. Usually shunted off to the side of the plate, they rarely get to shine in their own right.

One of the issues can be is that while we all know we should eat our veggies, we run out of ideas for different ways to prepare them. Here are some ideas that entail a little, but not a lot, of work to jazz up the vegetable dishes that come out of your kitchen.

  • Vegetable Recipes

    • Anchovy & Walnut Stuffed Peppers

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      Incredibly flavourful stuffed roasted peppers. Serve with a side salad and some good bread.

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    • Baked Cream Corn

      Baked Cream Corn

      This is an easy, yummy side dish: ends up sort of like cheezy scrambled egg with corn in it.

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    • Baked Leeks with Parmesan and Cream

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      A rich, luscious but easy way to serve leeks.

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    • Blue Cheese Portobellos with Spinach

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      This one recipe makes both the main course and the side salad! Nice chewy French or Italian bread works well for this. Toast bread wouldn’t cut it.

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    • Braised Carrots and Peas

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      This is a very colourful, and tasty vegetable side dish, and very easy to prepare, with a flair of a traditional French to it with the braised lettuce. Cooking lettuce might seem a jarring idea, but the French do cook lettuce as well as eating it fresh.

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    • Braised Fennel

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      Easy peasy, but you have to make it at the last minute.

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    • Braised Fennel with Brie

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      A good introduction to fennel.

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    • Braised Leeks, Peas and Onions in Butter Sauce

      Braised Leeks, Peas and Onions in Butter Sauce

      A sophisticated but really easy vegetable side dish. If you end up liking it, you’ll have it easily committed to memory in no time flat.

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    • Braised Orange Leeks

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      How many this recipe serves depends on how many leeks you have or buy, which will of course depend on how many you are planning on feeding.

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    • Braised Red Cabbage

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      A very tasty cabbage side dish. Lovely with mash and something else.

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    • Broccoli Crumble Recipe

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      This is a very hearty vegetable side dish, with the right amount of melted cheese and crispy bits to give it a big comfort food factor.

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    • Broccoli with Orange and Hazelnuts

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      Looks as great as it tastes.

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    • Brussels Sprout Purée with Chestnuts and Bacon

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      This is a side-dish that you can make entirely in the microwave, making it ideal for times when your stove is already full-out committed — or just for times when you don’t want any pots or pans wash-up.

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    • Butterscotch Beans Recipe

      Butterscotch beans

      This Butterscotch Bean recipe is an usually tasty recipe for Lima Beans, rather than being for the variety of bean called Butterscotch Bean. It’s very good, as you can imagine just by looking at the ingredients, but it’s very rich.

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    • Caramelized Brussels Sprouts with Bacon & Walnuts

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      A hearty, tasty rendition of Brussels Sprouts.

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    • Cauliflower & Peas

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      A delicious combination that makes cauliflower look and taste interesting.

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    • Cauliflower Cheese with Bacon

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      This is a very hearty vegetable side dish that has everything going for it comfort-food wise: a cheese sauce, bacon, and even buttered bread crumbs on top. You can even make this ahead.

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    • Cauliflower Purée Recipe

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      This is a creamy purée of cauliflower enriched with cream and butter, and seasoned with nutmeg. It makes for a very nice side splodge on your plate.

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    • Cheesy Cauliflower Cheese

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      A dead-easy way to make bland cauliflower into an asked-for dish.

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    • Chickpea Crumble

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      The only real bit of work in this is making the crumble, but the crumble topping is worth it.

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    • Chickpeas and Tuna Recipe

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      Nice served with side salad, bread and a glass of wine for a simple meal.

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    • Coconut and Ginger Parsnips

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      The parsnips in this recipe taste rich and sweet enough to convert parsnip haters.

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    • Couscous Fried Tomatoes Recipe

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      These tomato slices have great taste, and texture.

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    • Creamed Corn Recipe

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      Tinned cream corn suits most people just fine, but every once in a while it’s nice to make it from scratch. It’s an easy side dish, and easily presentable to guests when you have made it yourself.

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    • Creamed Spinach (2) Recipe

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      For many people, a creamed spinach dish is often pivotal in getting them to give spinach another chance, after a childhood of being served boiled spinach out of a can.

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    • Curried Cauliflower

      Curried cauliflower

      A really tasty way to enjoy cauliflower, and it’s not that much work. If you’re not in the habit of keeping all the spices required, you can just use a mild curry powder instead in roughly the same quantities.

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    • Curried Chickpeas Recipe

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      A great Indian side dish.

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    • Deep Fried Corn on the Cob

      Deep Fried Corn on the Cob

      If your eyes popped at the thought of this, imagine your friends. This dish is served at some bbq places and state fairs in the American south.

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    • Easy Baked Rosemary Onions

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      Some baked onion recipes seem to think you have an army of sous-chefs to back you. This recipe will taste just as impressive.

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    • Fried Cauliflower

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      You can serve this hot, or at room temperature, making it an hour in advance.

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    • Frumenty Recipe

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      This is a medieval English recipe. The plain frumenty can be used as a breakfast dish.

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    • Funeral Beans Recipe

      Funeral Beans

      A classic North American 1950s dish to make and take to feed a crowd at gatherings. It was dubbed Funeral Beans because it was a stand-by crowd-pleaser for gatherings after funerals.

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    • Glazed Parsnips and Turnips

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      These roasted, caramelized root vegetables taste fantastic.

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    • Green Beans in Blue Cheese Sauce

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      For green beans, you can use whatever you call green beans: Runner Beans, Wax Beans, French Beans, Green Beans, etc.

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    • Greens with Chestnuts and Bacon Recipe

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      You can use any kind of greens you like: mustard, beet, chard, etc. Good as a side to meat or pork.

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    • Italian Pickled Vegetables Recipe

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      All the work here is up-front, chopping the veg.

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    • Kilt Lettuce Recipe

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      A recipe from the American south.

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    • Leek & Potato Mash Recipe

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      Really tasty mash, worth the little bit extra effort.

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    • Lima Beans in Tomato Sauce

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      This is a Greek recipe. They will use the large lima beans called “gigantes.”

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    • Mashed Peas

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      A very tasty way to present peas.

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    • Molasses Baked Beans

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      A slow cooker recipe for very delicious, tasty, deep-brown baked beans with a thick hearty sauce. The recipe really only requires about 20 minutes of attention from you at various intervals.

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    • Mrs Tiddlewinks Cheese and Tomato Bread Pudding

      Mrs Tiddlewinks Cheese and Tomato Bread Pudding

      This is a savoury cheese and tomato bread pudding from the Beatrix Potter cookbook. The custardy texture of the bread, with the melted cheese, and tomatoes and basil, makes this a very morish, comfort-food dish that people are sure to reach for seconds of, yet it costs very little to make

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    • North African Cauliflower

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      Exotic and rich-tasting cauliflower side dish.

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    • Parsnip Cakes

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      Lovely with gravy on them.

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    • Parsnip Mash

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      You can make this a few hours ahead, and then reheat using a bit of milk or butter.

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    • Pease Pudding Recipe

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      Goes well with ham. In America, this is more likely to be referred to as pease porridge.

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    • Peppers stuffed with Mozzarella

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      Most stuffed pepper recipes take hours just to make the filling; these you can have in the oven in under 15 minutes.

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    • Pesto and Mozzarella Stuffed Baked Tomatoes

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      This is a fantastic tasting vegetable side dish. You could also serve it as a starter on its own.

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    • Pesto Potatoes

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      This is a nice side dish with lamb or beef.

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    • Pickled Ginger Recipe

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      It’s so easy to make your own pickled ginger!

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    • Roasted Corn with Chile Butter

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      You make this recipe on a barbeque.

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    • Roasted Endive and Pancetta

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      A very tasty and interesting vegetable side dish.

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    • Roasted Ricotta-Stuffed Peppers Recipe

      Roasted Ricotta-Stuffed Peppers

      As stuffed, roasted peppers go, this is one of the easier recipes, and the ricotta cheese stuffing makes for a nice change from the usual stuffing of rice. Plus this is a rare, healthy stuffed pepper recipe: it’s low-fat, low-sodium, low-carb.

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    • Runner Beans in Tomato Sauce

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      A good way to jazz up everyday runner beans.

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    • Sautéed Brussel Sprouts with Chestnuts

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      A classic way to serve sprouts.

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    • Scalloped Parsnips and Jerusalem Artichokes Recipe

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      A good, tasty winter veg recipe.

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    • Spicy Barbeque Beans

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      Excellent to serve with barbeque.

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    • Spicy Fried Brussel Sprouts

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      Sprout lovers will go mad for them in this recipe.

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    • Spicy Stewed Eggplant

      Spicy Stewed Eggplant

      This is a creamy, spicy, rich-tasting, very morish eggplant sauce. It’s great on rice, noodles (try it on Shirataki noodles for a super low-cal meal), or just in a bowl with a spoon, maybe with a sprinkle of parmesan on it, it’s that good on its own.

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    • Spicy Thyme Carrots

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      You’re on your own for proportions. Basically, cook up as many frozen carrots as you figure you want to serve per person.

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    • Spinach Dahl

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      A very tasty spinach side dish that will rival what you get in Indian restaurants.

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    • Squash and Bean Curry

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      A gorgeous and really healthy curry.

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    • Squash and Celery Root Casserole

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      Give celery root a try. This is a great winter vegetable dish.

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    • Squash Mash

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      Classic, simple recipe for a side dish of squash.

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    • Steamed Rapini

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      This is dead easy, but it does need to be done at the last minute so it can be served hot from the pan.

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    • Sweet Potatoes with Brie & Cranberry

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      Looks fabulous and the tastes are great!

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    • Vegetable Toad

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      This is a vegetarian take on the classic toad in the hole recipe.

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    • Vegetarian Pastitsio

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      A really interesting, yummy baked pasta.

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    • Vichy Carrots

      Vichy carrots

      And you thought boiled, sliced carrots were another word for boring? Not these ones: very good, very sweet, even the older ones that have been stored a few months.

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    • Zucchini and Ham Crumble

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      A rich, yummy side-dish.

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This page first published: Jun 27, 2018 · Updated: Feb 20, 2021.

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