[Family Cooking Recipe] Roasted Vegetables | Edited by Cooking Dad
🥦🍆 Roasted Vegetables Complete Guide🌈🔥
For those of you who want to eat healthy but not overly complicated, I'm going to share with you a recipe that 's incredibly simple yet super delicious : Roasted Vegetables ! 👏
This dish is very common in European and American families, especially in autumn and winter. Various vegetables are cut into pieces, added with olive oil, salt, black pepper and herbs, and pushed into the oven to bake, and the aroma is overflowing🤤.
The best part is: it’s almost effortless, the ingredients are flexible, and it’s incredibly healthy! 🥗💯
🛒 Ingredients (Serves 4, can be adjusted flexibly)
Basic vegetable combination 🌽🥕🍠
- 2 carrots (cut into dice)🥕
- Zucchini 1 piece (cut into thick slices)🥒
- 1 eggplant (cut into thick slices)🍆
- 2 bell peppers (one red and one yellow, cut into thick strips)🫑
- 1 onion (cut into slices)
- 200g mushrooms (cut in half or keep whole)🍄
- 6-8 small potatoes (with skin, cut in half or into cubes)🥔
- 200g broccoli/cauliflower (cut into small florets)🥦
Seasoning 🧂🌿
- 4–5 tablespoons olive oil🫒
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Black pepper to taste 🌑
- 3–4 cloves of garlic (sliced or crushed)🧄
- Basil leaves/thyme/rosemary (fresh or dried)🌿
- Optional: red pepper powder, cumin powder to increase aroma🌶️
👩🍳 Detailed cooking process
1. Processing vegetables
- Wash all vegetables and cut them into pieces of similar size to ensure even cooking.
- The potatoes can be left with the skin on, but they must be scrubbed clean. After cutting, soak them in water for 10 minutes to remove excess starch, which will make them crispier when baked.
2. Mix well and season
- Place all vegetables in a large bowl and add olive oil, salt, black pepper, garlic slices, and herbs.
- Stir with your hands or a large spoon to ensure each vegetable piece is evenly coated with oil and seasoning.
3. Preheat the oven
- Preheat oven to 200°C (upper and lower heat).
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and spread the vegetables out evenly, without overlapping them too much.
4. Baking process
- Place baking dish in the middle rack and bake for 25–35 minutes.
- Flip once halfway through (about 15 minutes) to ensure even cooking.
- Roast until the vegetables are golden brown and slightly charred, and fragrant.
5. Complete the dish
- After baking, you can sprinkle a little fresh herbs or squeeze lemon juice🍋 to make the taste more refreshing.
- It's delicious with steak 🥩, grilled chicken 🍗, pasta 🍝 or on its own!
💡 Editor's Tips & Variations
- Time control : Hard vegetables (potatoes, carrots) are more resistant to cooking, so you can bake them for 10 minutes before adding other vegetables.
- More delicious : In the last 5 minutes, you can increase the temperature to 220°C to create a slightly burnt effect, which is particularly attractive.
- Deluxe version : Add Feta 🧀 or Parmesan cheese and sprinkle it on immediately after baking to make the salty and fragrant taste more prominent.
- Healthy version : Use less oil, or use oil spray, which reduces the calories by half.
- Hong Kong Fusion : Some people will sprinkle a little Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce on it at the end, which instantly creates a fusion of Chinese and Western flavors.
- Children's favorite : Chop the vegetables into small pieces, drizzle a little honey after roasting, and it will be sweet and easier to eat.
🎉 Summary
Grilled mixed vegetables can be said to be a healthy dish with zero failure . The ingredients are very flexible and can be eaten alone, with meat, or even mixed with pasta. 🥦🍆
When eaten, it has a caramelized aroma, sweetness and crispness, fully showing the natural deliciousness of vegetables.
I think the best thing about this dish is that it's perfect for lazy people: just chop, mix, and pop it in the oven—no need to watch the fire at all. Plus, you get a variety of vegetables all at once—it's both healthy and convenient! 💯✨