Vegetable Side Dishes

The following chapter contains recipes for vegetables to accompany a main dish. A glance at the huge range included here will show how much more varied the use of vegetables has become in recent years. This makes what we eat far more interesting – and in most cases, better for us, too.

Vegetables in very many of the recipes in this chapter can be a main meal when combined with, perhaps, baked jacket potatoes or with boiled rice (Basmati for my taste). They don’t, of course, have to be served as side dishes, they can themselves be centre stage, as it were, in a meal. For example, the Root Vegetable Ragoût or the Spicy Red Cabbage dishes are both substantial and, served in larger amounts with other vegetables to accompany them, could well form a most sustaining lunch or supper.