What Veg with your meat?

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davestar_delux

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Hey, I eat a lot of meat and not enough veg, mainly cos I'm not good at what keeps well, what goes with what, tastes good and is easy to cook or how to cook any of it.

I usually have like chicken breasts, roasted, in curry, in any sauce with rice or pasta. I also like spag bol and steak and chips, pork stir frys...

Can anyone offer any good suggested meals with good tasty veg on the side?
 
Just cook veg, separately.

You have roast chicken but no veg :confused: just chuck some onions, butternut squash, carrots, Beetroot in the pan and a whole chicken leg on top and roast.
 
Stirfry here is typically something like a mixed stirfry pack if I'm being lazy, with added chilli, garlic, then thrown in black bean sauce, curry powder, hoi sin or just a bit of soy sauce. Then the meat dish is stir fried with chilli, garlic etc. If I'm being less lazy then the stir fry is broccoli, carrots, baby corns, mange tout, peppers, onions and garlic, but it works out cheaper to do a stir fry pack usually.

Once you figure out how to make veg work with your meal you'll enjoy the meat a lot more :)
 
Roast up some pre-boiled spuds with come carrots cut into thing strips and chopped onions. Olive oil and garlic and season.

You cannot dislike that combo it tatses amazing.

Alternately do the same but with peppers and onions.
 
Jonny69 said:
Stirfry here is typically something like a mixed stirfry pack if I'm being lazy, with added chilli, garlic, then thrown in black bean sauce, curry powder, hoi sin or just a bit of soy sauce. Then the meat dish is stir fried with chilli, garlic etc. If I'm being less lazy then the stir fry is broccoli, carrots, baby corns, mange tout, peppers, onions and garlic, but it works out cheaper to do a stir fry pack usually.

Once you figure out how to make veg work with your meal you'll enjoy the meat a lot more :)
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+1,
love a good stir fry and so quick and easy if in a rush.
Meat, veg pack, straight to wok noodles, some lazy chilli/garlic, soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce, oyster sauce.
 
I don't like veg, I wish I did. I still end up forcing it down usually using potato to mask the taste.

A stir fry is one thing I use to get loads of veg into me, if I can't taste it I don't mind eating it.

tbh you can put boiled veg on the side of most dinners

MW
 
Broccoli is delicious. Get some of the purple sprouting stuff and make sure that you don't overcook it (you can eat it pretty much raw - just heat it up). Really damn tasty - keeps for 3-4 days if you're fussy, more like a week and a bit for most people.
 
As a man you should eat peas. Something in them that's good for your knackers.

They'e pretty versatile too. Perfect with steak, a nice addition to a curry or even to some egg fried rice.

Don't forget baked beans are also one of your five a day and cheap as chips!

If you're into thai curry's etc you can add baby corn and mange tout.

tried mixing some spinach into a curry that isn't cream based.
 
Jonny69 said:
Stirfry here is typically something like a mixed stirfry pack if I'm being lazy, with added chilli, garlic, then thrown in black bean sauce, curry powder, hoi sin or just a bit of soy sauce. Then the meat dish is stir fried with chilli, garlic etc. If I'm being less lazy then the stir fry is broccoli, carrots, baby corns, mange tout, peppers, onions and garlic, but it works out cheaper to do a stir fry pack usually.

Once you figure out how to make veg work with your meal you'll enjoy the meat a lot more :)
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i always struggle with the sauce with stir frys and use a sharwoods sauce - is there a tasty easier way? i'm a newbie to chinese cooking.
 
If you're doing a roast, you can't really beat roasting root veg. Carrots, Parsnips, Beetroot, Onions, Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato... those all end up pretty sweet when you roast them.

If you boil your veg, do yourself a favour and buy a cheapo steamer. Really moldering stuff in boiling water just ruins it half the time. Boil some Brocolli and then try it Steamed and it's got so much less water soaked in it.

Stir fries are all about the timing. Cut the stuff as finely as you can and work from the longest cooking time to the shortest (don't just throw a lot of stuff in the pan at once, it'll make the heat drop). I don't use the packs purely because they never cook right, some of the veg is always overdone and some always underdone and there's too much so you end up steaming instead of frying.
 
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