recipe ideas?

MILLYMOLLY

Hi my 16 yr old son has got to make a vegetable dish in cooking tomorrow and the recipe he's brought is for stir fry and includes mangetout, baby sweetcorn etc, all quite expensive ingredients and I wondered if anyone had any alternative suggestions. It doesn't have to be stir fry
Cheers

staceydaisy

pasta nd HM sauce maybe
HM quiche with cheese and onion
vegetable bake

or simply egg and chips lol only joking

billieboy_2

Maybe you could substitute the baby corn with frozen sweetcorn and the mangetout with frozen green beans?

BitterAndTwisted

Any vegetable can be used in a stir-fry (although I wouldn't fancy potatoes) but the real skill for a 16 year-old would be in cutting and shredding them finely enough to cook quickly

Butterfly_Brain

How about a vegetable risotto
A soup
veggie curry
veggie lasagne
pea and potato samosas
Stirfry using red cabbage, red onions, peas, or whatever you have to hand
a cheesecake made with crushed cream crackers for the base some philli cheese (I use sainsbugs own at 25p a tub) mixed with a little cream or plain yoghurt with veggies added to the mix - chill and serve with a garnish of fresh parsley

debbym

Substitute tinned sweetcorn for baby sweetcorn
carrots cut into matchsticks for beansprouts
green beans for mangetout (or use frozen peas) etc. etc. Just use your imagination.

I suspect the more expensive versions have been chosen because they require less preparation - just throw in and stir round. Could you cheat and help prepare things a little; or at least show him how its done the cooking skills taught in D and T these days are laughable and a whole vegetable like an onion or carrot is probably unknown territory!

boo81

What about something with chick peas? We often cook a chick pea stew type thing with rice. Would be cheap, you can throw anything in - just use tomatoes as a base. Would recommend using some herbs and spices, paprika works well.

Also stuffed veg - peppers and mushrooms are fab

What about a bake of some sort? Tempura veg? Beanburgers? Onion tart? lentil shepherds pie? butternut squash soup?

I did a vegetarian meal for home ec, cant remember what I did now

Im sure you will find something. The vegetarian society have a great website with loads of recipes.

MILLYMOLLY

we do some cooking at home, he also has dyspaxia so fine cutting isn't one of his strengths. thinking of minestrone soup or veg chilli/curry

Paulie'sGirl

Pasta and broccoli bake? (In a cheese sauce, baked off til golden on top)
Boulangerie potatoes (as a side dish, rather than a whole meal, though we often have this as a meal on its own)
Veggie chilli?
Tuscan bean stew (if you search there's a few recipes on here)

Hope you find something suitable!

PGxx

boo81

oooh I had a recipe for brocolli, leek and pea cobbler which is to die for. It involves next to no chopping. Basically make a white sauce and pour over softened veg and add you add dumplings whilst cooking. Its from my student cookbook so must be easy ;-)