Best vegetable (no potato)

[JimW]

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There are the things I meant I think, had them with pork in a really sweet sauce, I think neither the sauce nor the cucumber stuff would have been pleasant without each other but it worked well together. But weird.

Definitely one where growing your own makes a big difference. Just fresh there's a sweetness to balance the sour and you can have them chopped cold as a salad. Go over and it's more earwax. Definitely complement well in good sauces too.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Sweetcorn and tomatoes.

Potatoes have never counted as a vegetable in my head, and I think they don't in the 5 a day thing either do they?

I think spuds were deliberately left out of the five a day thing as the government didn't want the plebs to think they could live on chips.

 

[maomao]

Nor are beans or any pulses you cheats mentioning them above

But peas are definitely a vegetable in culinary terms and so are any pea/bean served in its pod. The pod is a fruit, only the bit inside is a seed/pulse.

 

[redsquirrel]

Fennel, but I may be in a minority with this one.

I like fennel but I would not have it by itself

For eating on their own I'd say spinach or asparagus

 

[LDC]

But peas are definitely a vegetable in culinary terms and so are any pea/bean served in its pod. The pod is a fruit, only the bit inside is a seed/pulse.

Peas served in pods vegetables. Peas out of pods not. Them's the rules. In my head anyway.

 

[JimW]

Having this for tea, semi wild leafy veg that self set in the patch and crops really well every year, looking it up no common English name, type of amaranthus.

 

[The39thStep]

Peas are vegetables. We eat just eat diffrent parts of vegetables, the flowers, the seeds, the leaves, the roots, the tubers even the tedrils

There are lots of veg that are pretty much all year round carrots/cabbages/ oinions others that are a tad more seasonal. I suppose it the more seasonal ones I would put as favourorite for example asparagus , turnip green sand broccoli rabe , summers courgettes and beetroot.

 

[Detroit City]

peas

 

[Spymaster]

Cabbage or aubergine

 

[Edie]

Cauliflower (cheese)

 

[WouldBe]

Trump is a vegetable or might as well be.

Otherwise parsnips.

 

[2hats]

Romanesco.

Tastes great too (once you've snapped out of it and regained your focus).

 

[SpookyFrank]

Cabbage is pretty great.

 

[Saffy]

Courgettes or broccoli for me.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Pepper; everything from ground peppercorns, through hot peppers, chili peppers, to big fleshy ones that can be stuffed, fried, or eaten raw in salads

 

[The39thStep]

Cabbage or aubergine

Aubergines are fantastic, I've got some growing in my veg garden as we speak, even though it technically a fruit.

Heres one I grew a couple of years ago

 

[Steel Icarus]

Beans. Like three bean salad in a can, rinse it, add dressing or balsamic vinegar, few cubes of feta and it's a great lunch

 

[Orang Utan]

Kale, broad beans, broccoli, peas, squash

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Potatoes have never counted as a vegetable in my head, and I think they don't in the 5 a day thing either do they?

Actually lots of good vitamins and other nutrients in potatoes. If they were new on the market they'd be sold as a superfood for £5 a tiny box in Waitrose. You need to leave the skin on though.

 

[Chilli.s]

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Having this for tea, semi wild leafy veg that self set in the patch and crops really well every year, looking it up no common English name, type of amaranthus.

Calalloo in the Caribbean. I think. Pigweed, UK.

 

[Chilli.s]

Asparagus, top veg, Love the sparraguts.

 

[wtfftw]

Love pretty much all veg. Not carrots tho (except in cake).

 

[Orang Utan]

Asparagus, top veg, Love the sparraguts.

ooh yeah, how could i forget? Avocado too. Aubergines are lovely but they need to be with other things

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Peas. Mushy. Minted. Pureed. Souped. Definitely peas.

 

[Orang Utan]

oo oo, what about courgettes? fucking lush

 

[The39thStep]

Calalloo in the Caribbean. I think. Pigweed, UK.

On my allotment in Manchester there was a West Indian bloke on the opposite plot to me who grew this in a plastic tunnel.When it was in season he used to give me some everytime I went there

 

[andysays]

Onion would be the obvious one but I'm also excluding. Vegetable as a standalone meal/side dish

Onions are, IMO, absolutely and hands down the best vegetable. A crucial component of so many dishes across so many different cuisines.

A world without onions would be infinitely poorer, whereas a world without almost any other vegetable would not be nearly so seriously affected.

And the idea that a vegetable has to be a standalone meal or side dish in order to count as a proper vegetable is frankly ridiculous

 

[Proper Tidy]

Onions are, IMO, absolutely and hands down the best vegetable. A crucial component of so many dishes across so many different cuisines.

A world without onions would be infinitely poorer, whereas a world without almost any other vegetable would not be nearly so seriously affected.

And the idea that a vegetable has to be a standalone meal or side dish in order to count as a proper vegetable is frankly ridiculous

I agree on the value of onions andy but my thread my rules, that's just how it is

 

[gentlegreen]

Onions are, IMO, absolutely and hands down the best vegetable. A crucial component of so many dishes across so many different cuisines.

A world without onions would be infinitely poorer, whereas a world without almost any other vegetable would not be nearly so seriously affected.

And the idea that a vegetable has to be a standalone meal or side dish in order to count as a proper vegetable is frankly ridiculous

Indeed.
Speaking as one who eats ONLY vegetables, I've actually whittled them down to a surprisingly small number and sprouts / broccoli are way up there because of nutrient density, but I couldn't live on sprouts alone ... well I suppose I could happily fill up on them as a one-off - so long as I had tahini and soy sauce and probably chutney ...

 

[WouldBe]

And the idea that a vegetable has to be a standalone meal or side dish in order to count as a proper vegetable is frankly ridiculous

My dad's had an allotment for years. When I was younger, if there was a surplus of onions we would often have them boiled whole as a separate veg.