The baked vegetables are a delicious side dish, simple to prepare, and great to cook with all the vegetables we have available. We choose the mix of vegetables based on what we like or what we have leftover in the fridge, and then we just need to season the vegetables and bake them to get a healthy and genuine side dish, perfect to accompany with the yogurt sauce we suggest in our recipe, which will make these vegetables creamy and appetizing, but can be used in many other ways. Not only as a side dish to accompany meat, fish, eggs, or legumes, but also as a base for creating other dishes. In fact, these baked vegetables can become the ideal condiment for pasta, rice, or other grains like barley, farro, quinoa; they are great for enriching bruschettas, crostini, but also wraps, focaccias, and tortillas; they can also be a great filling for savory pies to be prepared with puff pastry or shortcrust pastry. In short, one recipe for many types of dishes!
Moreover, as we mentioned earlier, we can use the mix of vegetables we prefer. We used zucchini, carrots, and cauliflower, which were the vegetables we had leftover in the fridge and needed to consume, but many other vegetables such as broccoli, bell peppers, eggplants, potatoes, etc., are perfect. For a perfect cooking of the vegetables, it will be essential to cut everything to the same dimensions, and to make the cooking faster, it’s surely preferable to cut all the vegetables the same, whether they are diced, sliced, or wedged.
The preparation is very simple: cut the vegetables into cubes, and divide the cauliflower into florets. Gather carrots, zucchini, and cauliflower in a baking tray together with a sliced onion and season with oil, oregano, salt, and pepper. Bake for about 40 minutes at 356 degrees Fahrenheit. To accompany the baked vegetables, we can prepare a sauce with Greek yogurt, tahini, oil, turmeric, and salt.
A versatile dish to try in a thousand variations, but we assure you that with the yogurt sauce, these baked vegetables are really delicious. You just have to try them!
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Economical
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All Seasons
Ingredients to Prepare Baked Vegetables
- 7 oz carrots
- 7 oz zucchini
- 7 oz cauliflower
- 1 onion
- extra virgin olive oil
- oregano
- salt
- pepper
- 1 cup Greek yogurt (or plant-based yogurt)
- 2 tbsps tahini
- extra virgin olive oil
- ground turmeric
- salt
Tools to Prepare Baked Vegetables
- 1 Cutting Board
- 1 Knife
- 1 Baking Tray
- Parchment Paper
- 1 Oven
Steps to Prepare Baked Vegetables
Prepare the baked vegetables by first cleaning all the vegetables: scrape the carrots and cut them into cubes of the same size.
Trim the zucchini and cut them into cubes.
Remove the stalk and outer leaves of the cauliflower and divide it into florets.
Peel the onion and slice it thinly.
Gather all the vegetables in a baking tray and season them with oil, salt, pepper, and oregano.
Bake at 356 degrees Fahrenheit for about 30-40 minutes.
In the meantime, prepare the yogurt sauce: mix Greek or plant-based yogurt with tahini in a bowl and add turmeric, extra virgin olive oil, and salt.
When the vegetables are ready, serve them accompanied, if you like, with the yogurt sauce and freshly chopped parsley.
Simo and Cicci recommend
You can store baked vegetables in the fridge well closed in an airtight container for about two days. You can also store the yogurt sauce well closed in a container in the fridge. Freezing is not recommended for both cooked vegetables and the sauce.
You can use the mix of vegetables you prefer in addition to carrots, zucchini, cauliflower, and onion. You can also use broccoli, bell peppers, eggplants, squash, potatoes, etc. You can also use the mix of vegetables taking into account the seasonality, for example, asparagus, peas, and zucchini for the spring season, bell peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants for summer, squash, mushrooms, and potatoes for autumn, cauliflower, broccoli for winter.
To ensure they cook evenly, try to cut all the vegetables to the same thickness and possibly small sizes. In any case, the cooking time may vary depending on the type of oven used.
You can also add herbs and spices of your choice to the vegetables such as rosemary, thyme, marjoram, paprika, chili pepper.
