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Roast Vegetables, Three Ways (that even the kids will like)

June 24, 2013 | Vegetarian

Baked vegetables

This is another very versatile, extremely healthy and easy to prepare dish. Fibre, vitamin and mineral rich, it’s a fantastic throw together simple meal. You know how much I love versatility in a meal? Well this covers many bases; it can become a hearty soup, filling salad or delicious pasta sauce! It’s a wonderful, delicious way to ‘hide’ vegetables from kids.  Here’s how…

Baked vegetables, three ways (that even the kids will like)

Prep 10 minutes
Cook 1 hour
Total 1 hour 10 minutes
Baked vegetables
4 from 1 vote
One simple tray of roasted vegetables can become three different meals. Here's how...

Ingredients

  • 1 large sweet potato/s -skin on and cubed (can sub pumpkin)
  • 3 carrot/s -unpeeled and sliced
  • 100 g mushrooms -Swiss brown or button, whole or quarter field
  • 1 zucchini/s -sliced or cubed
  • 1 red capsicum/s -roughly sliced
  • 2 red onion/s -peeled and quartered
  • 4 clove/s garlic -whole and unpeeled
  • 3 tbsp butter, ghee or olive oil -melted
  • 60 g pumpkin seeds (½ cup)
  • 2 tbsp dried oregano
  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper -to taste

If making this into a pasta sauce or soup also include:

  • 6 vine ripened tomatoe/s -halved and placed cut side up on the roasting tray ( depending on the size of your tray, they may need to sit on top of the vegetables) or 2 punets of cherry tomatoes, whole.  The vegetables sit very well behind the tomato flavour.  However if your kids can still detect vegetables, then next time, remember to increase the amount of tomatoes and reduce the quantity of vegetables.   For very vegetable fussy kids, do this to begin with.

Optional extras:

  • 1 bulb fennel -quartered
  • 1 eggplant/s -small

Method

  • Preheat your oven to 180℃/350°F (fan-forced).
  • Take a large baking or roasting tray. Throw in all of your cut up vegetables, oregano, salt and pepper and ghee (or butter or olive oil) and toss to coat them all well.
  • Place you tomatoes, cut side up on top (sprinkle with a little extra oregano, salt and pepper). Scatter over the pepitas.
  • Place in the oven for about 40 - 60 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked through.
  • Drizzle with a little extra virgin olive oil, adjust the seasoning and serve as a side with any type of protein.

Soup

  • Squeeze the flesh from the garlic skin.
  • Throw all of the contents of the baking dish into a blender or food processor (or Thermomix), with a glug of EV olive oil, season well and blend on a high speed until pureed.
  • Add in some fresh basil or parsley to for extra goodness and flavour.
  • To add protein, include a can of brown lentils or canellini beans (drained and rinsed). These can be either stirred through or pureed too.
  • Add a little water or stock to achieve the desired consistency. I love a thick soup, so I would use only a little stock.

Pasta sauce

  • Squeeze the flesh from the garlic skin.
  • Throw all of the contents of the baking dish in a blender or food processor (or Thermomix), with a glug of EV olive oil, season well and blend on a high speed until pureed.
  • Add in some fresh basil or parsley too for extra goodness and flavour.
  • You could even add a spoon or two of your favourite pesto to the mix (or on top as I have pictured below).
  • To add protein, include a can of brown lentils or canellini beans (drained and rinsed). These can be either stirred through for texture or pureed to. You could also add a can of tuna, some diced bacon or chorizo sausage if you like.
  • Serve over pasta with grated cheese. I often mix this sauce through macaroni or tube pasta to coat it, add a little feta or goats cheese to if you like and top it with grated cheese. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
  • My favourite type of pasta is a gluten-free rice and quinoa pasta.

Salad

  • Let the vegetables cool down.
  • Toss salad leaves in a dressing of one part red wine vinegar to two parts extra virgin olive oil, seasoned well.
  • Add the cooled  vegetables, gently toss and serve.
  • This is lovely with crumbled feta or goats cheese mixed through.
  • Add some legumes, tuna, cooked meat, brown rice or quinoa to make a real meal of it.

Store

  • Store in an airtight container in the fridge.
  • The soup and sauce versions can be frozen.

Variations

Vegan and vegetarian

Obviously avoid any of the meat/ cheese additions (stick with legumes for protein). For vegan choose olive oil.

Legume-free

Avoid the suggestions for beans/ pulses. 

 

There you have it. One dish, loads of healthy meals. Cook without boundaries. Enjoy and I'd love to receive your comments!

Course: Main Course Salad Soup

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Category: Vegetarian Tags: coconutfree, cornfree, dairyfree, dinner, eggfree, familyfood, glutenfree, grainfree, legumefree, lowfructose, lowsugar, lunch, meal, nutfree, pasta, salad, seafoodfree, sesamefree, soup, soyfree, traybake, vegetables, vegetarian, wheatfree, yeastfree

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6 Comments

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  1. Lynsay says

    Georgia you are a genius. They loved it. Oh how I love sucking my kids into eating vegetables they claim to hate…

    June 26, 2013
    Reply
    • Georgia Harding says

      Awesome, me too. The best thing is once they’ve had it a few times, I drop the bomb! My daughter hates zucchini, but has it in so many things. Even straight zucchini soup which she loves! Go figure? So if she sees it and complains, I tell her she eats it all the time. Out of sight, out of mind! Lots more hidden vegetable dishes to come too. G x

      June 26, 2013
      Reply
  2. Rachael says

    I made this roasted vegetable dish this week…love it. Have used it as a thick soup & as a pasta sauce. When I first took the vege’s out of the oven I was tempted to eat straight away, but had already announced we were having soup! Have also made the nourishing Anzacs at least 3 times so far. Loving your work! Have a ball in NZ…so envious…

    June 27, 2013
    Reply
    • Georgia Harding says

      Thanks for your feed back Rachael. I really appreciate hearing how my recipes are fairing. It also gives me an indication of what types of recipes to post in the future. Have a lovely weekend. G x

      June 28, 2013
      Reply
  3. Jessica says

    4 stars
    I am really loving your ecipes Georgia! I have made so many now….quick & easy and so yummy. Whenever I’ve got some veg I don’t know what to do with, one of your recipes always comes to the rescue! Thank you

    August 10, 2018
    Reply
    • Georgia Harding says

      Thanks and you’re welcome Jessica x

      August 12, 2018
      Reply

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