Let me tell you a little trick I use when it I want to prep and cook vegetables and am short on time: I take advantage of my food processor and let the machine do the work.
I love vegetables, but I’ve seen folks really struggle with prepping vegetables (which is why you must, must, must learn to use a knife folks!). If you’re short on time and want to get a delicious vegetable side to accompany dinner, dust off the grater attachment of your food processor and get grating and hash it.
You can do this with squashes (winter or summer), any root vegetable (that’s carrots, parsnips, beets), and your spuds (potatoes and sweet potatoes). When you grate them, they also cook much faster and have tons of surface area to absorb any flavor you put on them. Really, we should do this with all our vegetables.
Carrots and zucchini are a great combination, but don’t stop there. Carrots + beets? Parsnips + potatoes? Butternut squash + sweet potatoes? All will be delicious. The key is to start with the vegetable that will take longer to cook first (good rule of thumb: the denser and more firm the vegetable is, the longer it will take to cook, so butternut squash will take longer than zucchini). You can also just pick one vegetable to saute (but it won’t be as colorful). Regardless, you’ll definitely love this new fun way to eat your veggies!
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Made this to go with dinner tonight. We're eating paleo. Didn't have enough carrot and zucchini so added a parsnip, too. I dumped them all in together and it worked out great. My food processor shreds rather finely. Everyone enjoyed this. Thank you.
You're welcome!