Or, the Italian way: simmer garlic in a pan with olive oil, throw in the vegetables and a bit of water, throw in some salt, cover, cook until soft, check occasionally that it isn’t burning
Hard no. Extremely hard no. This is the kind of crap our parents would make and serve.
For anyone with taste buds, let’s be abundantly clear on something: steaming vegetables is perhaps the WORST way to cook them.
Unless you are eating them raw, or using them as an ingredient in a larger dish, almost all vegetables should be roasted/grilled to bring out and caramelize their natural sugars. Steaming them strips away a lot of the nutrients and flavors, leaving you with tasteless mush. Like you’re cooking the soul out of them and leaving only a sad memory of what they could have been.
This is just patently false. Steaming vegetables preserves more nutrients than both boiling and grilling. Plus, anything caramelized has Acrylamide in it.
enjoy the smoothest mash you have ever tried that comes out to like 40 calories per 100g
Roasted anything (brussel spouts, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, asparagus)
Coat in olive oil, salt, garlic powder
air fry or roast
Enjoy awesome tasting veggies.
Veggie rice(white rice is for sushi goddamnit)
Satuee some onions, garlic
add some cut up bell peppers, tomatoes
cook for a while
add frozen peas and carrots and a choice of frozen vegetables (broccoli or green beans)
add water and bring to a boil
add the rice and simmer it for the prescribed time +1-2 minutes
let it sit for 10 minutes
Enjoy a rice full of veggies and color ( I also use a “curry” mix that’s turmeric, koriander and a bunch of other stuff that gives it a nice yellow color, and this way you have your rice and veggies in one and they enhance each other’s flavor.
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To all the veggie haters:
Broccoli recipe:
Cauliflower recipe:
Or, the Italian way: simmer garlic in a pan with olive oil, throw in the vegetables and a bit of water, throw in some salt, cover, cook until soft, check occasionally that it isn’t burning
My recent favourite is broccoli roasted until crispy, so good. Before then it was crispy kale but as we all know it’s basically the same plant
Hard no. Extremely hard no. This is the kind of crap our parents would make and serve.
For anyone with taste buds, let’s be abundantly clear on something: steaming vegetables is perhaps the WORST way to cook them.
Unless you are eating them raw, or using them as an ingredient in a larger dish, almost all vegetables should be roasted/grilled to bring out and caramelize their natural sugars. Steaming them strips away a lot of the nutrients and flavors, leaving you with tasteless mush. Like you’re cooking the soul out of them and leaving only a sad memory of what they could have been.
I’m sorry your parents were terrible cooks. Steamed veggies can be very delicious what done right, and it’s not that difficult to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide
This is just patently false. Steaming vegetables preserves more nutrients than both boiling and grilling. Plus, anything caramelized has Acrylamide in it.
Here is a good one, Mashed cauliflower:
Roasted anything (brussel spouts, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, asparagus)
Enjoy awesome tasting veggies.
Veggie rice(white rice is for sushi goddamnit)
Enjoy a rice full of veggies and color ( I also use a “curry” mix that’s turmeric, koriander and a bunch of other stuff that gives it a nice yellow color, and this way you have your rice and veggies in one and they enhance each other’s flavor.