How To Make Kid Approved Creamed Vegetables With Any Veggie!
Ingredients
- 2-3 tbsp healthy fat to cook in butter, ghee, olive oil, avocado oil, etc
- ½ medium onion diced
- ¼ - ½ medium cabbage sliced thin
- 1 large carrot peeled and diced
- 1 head broccoli florets chopped
- 2 handfuls frozen green beans cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 cloves of garlic minced
- 2 tbsp flour of choice to thicken any GF flour blend or regular flour, rice flour, or if you are grain free, you could use tapioca starch, potato starch, or arrowroot
- 1 cup full fat coconut milk or regular milk/cream if you can have dairy
- ½ cup cheese of choice shredded (If you cannot have dairy and tolerate goat or sheep milk cheese, that would work great. Or if you can’t have that, try adding in about 1 tbsp of nutritional yeast to add some cheesy flavor)
- Sea salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat and add the onion, cabbage, carrot, and broccoli with a big pinch of sea salt. Stir to combine and cook over medium high heat for about 5-7 minutes until the veggies are soft and sweet.
- Stir in the frozen green beans and garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Sprinkle the flour into the cooked veggies and stir to coat them well. Then, pour the coconut milk into the pan, and stir until the sauce thickens about a minute or 2. Turn off the heat, and stir in the cheese. Salt and pepper the veggies to your taste.
Notes
The total amount of veggies including the onion is about 6-8 cups chopped. The whole point of this kind of skillet side is to use what you have, so change up the veg to what is in season in your veggie bin, and what you have leftover that needs to be used up at the end of the week! Add some frozen corn if you can have grains to add an extra pop of color! You can swap the carrot for sweet potato or bell peppers. Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, or asparagus swap well for broccoli. And zucchini swaps great for the green beans. Chopped spinach always wilts in at the end very well. Just remember 6-8 cups totally veggies – the cooking of the veg in the fat will bring out any veggies natural sweetness and make them super kid friendly in taste 😊