Some women are lucky. They have husbands who are content to have vegetables at the center of their plate for every meal. Their children devour a wide variety of vegetables no matter how they are prepared. This recipe is for the rest of us. If you are having trouble getting your family to eat their veggies, try this family-friendly side dish. Roasted vegetables already have a sweet flavor from the roasting, add maple syrup and you are practically at a dessert level. Your vegetable-weary family members will look at veggies in a whole new light with this side dish. Even if you have no problem getting your loved ones to eat vegetables, go ahead and make this just because it’s really good.
Family-Friendly Side Dish: Maple Roasted Vegetable Sticks
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: serves 4 - 6 1x
Description
A tasty vegetable side dish that everyone will enjoy
Ingredients
- 2 red bell peppers
- 2 turnips
- 2 large carrots
- 2 medium sweet potatoes
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Cut your vegetables into a stick shape. You can cut them any way you want, actually, but the stick shape is great if you have a toddler in the house. Kids like foods that look like French fries. That’s just the way of the world. Put the big pile o’ vegetables in a bowl and pour on the maple syrup and oil and add the salt and a generous amount of pepper. Toss to evenly coat the veggies.
- Spread out the coated vegetables on a baking sheet (you will probably need 2–you don’t want to overcrowd the veggies) and roast for 30-45 minutes, stirring the vegetables once or twice during the cooking time for even roasting.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Category: Side Dish
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 of 6 servings
- Calories: 186
- Sugar: 14.8g
- Sodium: 259mg
- Fat: 9.5g
- Carbohydrates: 25.1g
- Protein: 1.5g
I know that’s a large time frame. Here’s the deal. If I was the only one eating these, I would let them roast for 45 minutes, and maybe even broil them for a minute at the end, until they were nicely brown and caramelized. Certain toddlers don’t appreciate brown-looking vegetables, however, so I tend to roast them for a shorter amount of time. The roasted vegetables in the picture above were in the oven for 30 minutes. So if you want them less brown, roast them for a shorter amount of time and if you want them more brown, go the full 45 minutes.
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